Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Feeding the Birds
de Jan Mahnken(Ed. Outlet) Isbn : 0517118459
6.64 €
A complete guide for bird lovers offers expert advice on how to provide food, water, and shelter, while providing uncomplicated and fascinating guidelines on attracting specific species and warding off hungry squirrels.

Feeding the Birds
de Jan Mahnken(Ed. Garden Way Pub Co) Isbn : 0882663615
11.36 €
A complete guide for bird lovers offers expert advice on how to provide food, water, and shelter, while providing uncomplicated and fascinating guidelines on attracting specific species and warding off hungry squirrels.

The Birder's Guide Vancouver Island: A Walking Guide to Bird Watching Sites
de Keith Taylor, First Last(Ed. Steller Press) Isbn : 1894143035
13.92 €
A companion volume to the successful The Birder's Guide to British Columbia, this guide to bird-watching sites on Vancouver Island is essential to both beginner and expert bird-watchers. It includes comprehensive itineraries for day trips to some of the best birding areas in North America, and also offers information on habitats and seasonal bird sightings for each site. A checklist of species includes the best times for sightings and provides a quick reference guide with easy-to-follow maps that make planning trips simple.

Hummingbirds: A Wildlife Handbook
de Kim Long(Ed. Johnson Books) Isbn : 1555661882
15.16 €
A combination of illustrated field guide, fact book, and folklore collection,«Hummingbirds»is a new kind of wildlife book. This concise, illustrated handbook presents an accurate, informative portrait of hummingbirds in their natural habitat, along with an examination of their relationship to man. America's most popular bird, the hummingbird is also unique to this hemisphere. Native cultures-including Aztec, Mayan, and North American Indian-have long revered this tiny creature...

Wings for My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock
de Marcy Cottrell Houle(Ed. Pruett Publishing Co) Isbn : 0871088975
14.2 €
A college-trained biologist, Houle spent four summers living on a beautiful Colorado mountain--an Anasazi Indian site-- and studying a family of endangered peregrine falcons. While her notes on the family life of these magnificent birds are authoritative and interesting, Houle also recounts the human story of the hostility, danger, sexism, misunderstanding, acceptance, and, ultimately, love that she encountered from the local people. Because commercial development of the nest area had been halted due to the Endangered Species Act, there had been acute tension between Houle, living alone in primitive conditions, and most of the townspeople. In the end she won many converts. Her book is well crafted and compelling, a dramatization of the classic conflict between the legitimate interests of c...

Wings for My Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Chimney Rock
de Houle(Ed. Addison Wesley) Isbn : 0201608189
11.8 €
A college-trained biologist, Houle spent four summers living on a beautiful Colorado mountain--an Anasazi Indian site-- and studying a family of endangered peregrine falcons. While her notes on the family life of these magnificent birds are authoritative and interesting, Houle also recounts the human story of the hostility, danger, sexism, misunderstanding, acceptance, and, ultimately, love that she encountered from the local people. Because commercial development of the nest area had been halted due to the Endangered Species Act, there had been acute tension between Houle, living alone in primitive conditions, and most of the townspeople. In the end she won many converts. Her book is well crafted and compelling, a dramatization of the classic conflict between the legitimate interests of c...

Audubon's Birds: Miniature Edition
de John James Audubon(Ed. Running Press Miniature Editions) Isbn : 1561380903
4.7 €
A collection of sixty classic Audubon paintings accompanied by quotes celebrates birds of every kind.

65 Birdhouses and Bird Feeders: For All Bird Lovers to Build
de Ronald D. Tarjany(Ed. Tarjany Publications) Isbn : 0967466849
9.46 €
A collection of 65 birdhouse and bird feeder designs. The 65 designs are profusely illustrated with detailed dimensioned drawings of each part and an assembled isometric drawing to show the finished project. Any woodworker with minimal skills will be able to build these designs.

Backyard Songbirds: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Familiar Species of North America
de Marcus Schneck(Ed. Crescent Books) Isbn : 0517072890
16.14 €
A close-up, illustrated look at North American songbirds describes some one hundred familiar species of birds that can be found in various regions of North America, providing information on preferred habitats, foods, characteristics, and behavior.

Peterson First Guide to Astronomy
de Jay M. Pasachoff(Ed. Houghton Mifflin Juvenile Books) Isbn : 039546790X
5.66 €
A clear, up-to-date text covering virtually everything in the sky concisely but accurately tells how to get started in astronomy--without even a telescope or a pair of binoculars. 65 color photos, 24 color sky maps.