Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

How to Attract Birds
de Ortho(Ed. Ortho Books) Isbn : 0897210115
9.46 €
A revision of Ortho's best-selling bird book, this edition focuses on how to attract, and how to avoid, specific birds, particularly with seeds and feeders -- for example, suet feeders that starlings can't use. The book features new hints for avoiding problems such as squirrels, window strikes, trouble with neighbors, and cats killing birds.Like the earlier edition, this guide for bird lovers shows how to attract dozens of beautiful visitors by creating in your yard the habitat they prefer. Using its specific instructions for attracting over 50 favorite garden birds, you can enjoy exactly the ones you love, without also drawing pest birds. There are instructions for making feeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths for different types of birds -- everything you need to know to make your garden app...

How to Attract Birds
de Ortho Books, John Dennis(Ed. Ortho Books) Isbn : 0897212754
9.44 €
A revision of Ortho's best-selling bird book, this edition focuses on how to attract, and how to avoid, specific birds, particularly with seeds and feeders -- for example, suet feeders that starlings can't use. The book features new hints for avoiding problems such as squirrels, window strikes, trouble with neighbors, and cats killing birds.Like the earlier edition, this guide for bird lovers shows how to attract dozens of beautiful visitors by creating in your yard the habitat they prefer. Using its specific instructions for attracting over 50 favorite garden birds, you can enjoy exactly the ones you love, without also drawing pest birds. There are instructions for making feeders, birdhouses, and birdbaths for different types of birds -- everything you need to know to make your garden app...

Where Birds Live
de Eve Sonneman(Ed. Random House Inc) Isbn : 0679403396
33.26 €
A renowned photographer explores the variety of avian domiciles, beginning with birds' nests in the wild and concluding with a showcase of eccentric man-made bird houses. 20,000 first printing.

Hawks on the Wing: 2001
de Brian Wheeler(Ed. Tide-Mark Press) Isbn : 155949512X
11.02 €
A regal symbol for centuries, hawks have legendary eyesight and strength. As predators, they occupy a vital ecological niche. Soar with Hawks on the Wing, and imagine playing on the updrafts and seeing with the eyes of a hawk. Photographer-illustrator and naturalist Brian Wheeler, who enjoys many field-guide credits, shares his images and knowledge of hawks in the 24 images of this calendar. Sales benefit the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, an international center for bird study and conservation. Wall hanging, full color, 11 by 14 inches.

Hawks on the Wing 2000 Calendar
de Brian Wheeler(Ed. Tide-Mark Pr Ltd) Isbn : 1559494530
12.91 €
A regal symbol and a source of imaging for centuries, hawks have legendary eyesight and strength. As predators, they occupy a vital ecological niche. Soar with Hawks on the Wing 2000, and imagine playing on the updrafts and seeing with the eyes of a hawk. Photographer-illustrator and naturalist Brian Wheeler, who enjoys many field-guide credits, shares his images and knowledge of hawks in this new calendar with wings. Sales benefit the nonprofit American Birding Association, which fosters awareness about birding through education and conservation programs. Wall hanging, 11 by 14 inches

Elsewhere In the Land of Parrots
de Jim Paul(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Isbn : 0151004951
29.16 €
A reclusive poet and an adventurous scientist with nothing in common but an unusually keen interest in parrots find love in this witty, charming--if not entirely convincing--novel by the author of Catapult (1991) and Medieval in L.A. ( 1996). The poet, David, having in childhood developed a vague, but powerful, fear of, well, just about everything, is so averse to the world outside his apartment, he has a bookcase blocking his bedroom window. The opposite who attracts him is Fern, a doctoral student unafraid to venture alone into the mangroves of Ecuador in search of an elusive species of small, green parrot. Separately, both are appealing. David is especially winning. His earnest, clumsy steps to break out of his self-imposed isolation provide most of the book's humor, which ranges from s...

Egg Incubation: Its Effects on Embryonic Development in Birds and Reptiles
de D. Charles Deeming(Ed. Cambridge University Press) Isbn : 0521390710
246.06 €
A recent rapid expansion in our knowledge of embryonic development in birds and reptiles has created a need for a book that comprehensively reviews and synthesizes data relating to incubation effects on the embryonic development of these two vertebrate classes. The contributors to this book aptly deal with these issues in logical parts. The first deals with the structure, shape, and function of eggs. The second examines the effects of the four main parameters, e.g. temperature, water relations, respiratory gas exchange, and turning, on the process of incubation. The third section deals with early embryonic development and the methods used to investigate and manipulate the embryo. Further chapters deal with estivation, megapodes, and oviparity.

Attracting Birds to Your Garden
de Stephen Moss(Ed. New Holland Publishers Ltd) Isbn : 1859740057
15.34 €
A practical month-by-month guide to attracting birds to your garden. The Bird-friendly Garden helps you to make your garden into a haven for birds, whether it's a balcony, a courtyard or simply a window ledge. Each style of garden features full-page garden plan illustration by Gill Tomblin. There is also a section on unusual gardens, such as those near the coast. Each one is supplemented by suggestion for the best nest-boxes, feeders and bird-baths to install, as well as the best plants to cultivate.

Philip's Night Sky Atlas
de Robin Scagell(Ed. Philip's) Isbn : 1554070260
17.7 €
A practical guide to binocular and small telescope observing. Night Sky Atlas combines clear, accurate star maps with reliable and informative text. This is a highly practical atlas for beginning sky gazers using binoculars or a small telescope. Sturdy binding makes it suitable for outdoor use. Cover flaps can be used as page-markers. The sewn binding allows the atlas to be opened flat. The star maps are drawn with black stars on a white background, allowing observers to pencil in their own observations. The high quality paper can withstand repeated use of an eraser. The book begins by presenting the whole sky in a series of six maps, showing stars down to magnitude 5.5 -- all visible with binoculars or a small telescope. Opposite each map is a photo-realistic image that shows how the same...

Birds of Indonesia
de Morten Strange(Ed. Tuttle Publishing) Isbn : 9625934022
23.7 €
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia covers the native birds from the rainforests of Sumatra and Kalimantan to the arid regions of Timor. This beautiful guide depicts over 600 species in almost 700 color photographs, offering detailed descriptions of each bird's voice and habits. Many of the photographs in this magnificent volume appear for the first time and have been carefully selected to show the rarest species. In addition: · Of the 686 birds covered in A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia, an astonishing 127 are endemic species found in no other country. · The distribution maps that accompany each species are accurate for all the 47 major Indonesian islands. · Apart from the author 30 other photographers provided their best pictures for this book, including well-kn...