Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Bird Watcher's Journal
de (Ed. Athena Productions) Isbn : 0945798814
9.46 €
Allows room to record your own observations beside delightful proverbs, quotes, songs about birds, and even bird migration maps of the barn swallow, white stork, ruby-throated hummingbird, arctic tern, and black and white warbler.

Cranes, the Shining Marks: In Natural History and Cultural Lore
de A. Lindsay Price(Ed. La Alameda Press,U.S.) Isbn : 1888809140
13.3 €
A. Lindsay Price is a photographer, poet, artist, and Joyce scholar as well as a nature writer. Her most recent book is Swans of the World. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Shorebirds: Beautiful Beachcombers
de Arthur Morris(Ed. Econo-Clad Books) Isbn : 0613290666
25.12 €
A wonderfully illustrated introduction to identifying North American shorebirds: sandpipers, plovers, oystercatchers, turnstones, and dowitchers. Shorebirds offer unique challenges to both beginning and experienced birdwatchers. They're large, forage in the open, and are easy to spot, but their infinitely variable plumage makes them difficult to identify. With beautifully detailed images taken by one of the country's premier bird photographers, this book offers invaluable assistance to those who want to distinguish a yellowlegs from a willet, or a snipe from a dowitcher. It also offers sound advice on how best to observe these fascinating creatures, details on their natural history, and information on how mankind's actions have affected their populations.

Prairie Night: Black-Footed Ferrets and the Recovery of Endangered Species
de Brian Miller, etc., Richard P. Reading, Steve Forrest(Ed. Smithsonian Books) Isbn : 1560986034
37.96 €
A surprisingly readable treatise on the black-footed ferret recovery program, by three members of the program staff. Listed as an endangered species, the secretive black-footed ferret had been reduced to a minuscule wild population in Wyoming by 1985, the year a captive-propagation effort swung into action. Miller, Reading, and Forrest gather here the fruits of that project. In a text by turns semiscientific and semipopular, they cover ferret courtship, child-rearing and home life, boundary marking, aggression, and predation. They chart the reasons behind the ferrets' decline: poisoning of prairie dog populations (the sole food of the ferret), disease, habitat destruction. The authors outline the recovery program, from measuring the population to trapping to captive-breeding husbandry to r...

Birds of Prey
de Norman S. Barrett(Ed. Franklin Watts) Isbn : 0531141519
17 €
A look at such predatory birds as eagles, vultures, and owls and how their hunting methods differ.

The Year of the Songbird: What Saving Birds Can Teach Us About Global Conservation
de Kenneth A. Brown(Ed. Times Books) Isbn : 0805070907
22.8 €
A look at environmental decay and preservation--illuminated by the story of the declining songbird populationsEach spring, millions of songbirds and migratory birds leave the rain forests of Central America for the foothills of the Appalachians, the Great Lakes, New England, and the edge of the Rockies. Traveling in mixed flocks of several hundred thousand, they fly virtually non-stop to their summer destinations. These migrations are one of the most spectacular events in the natural world. As they travel, the birds help spread the seeds of plants, pollinate flowers and hold exploding populations of insects in check. The birds, in turn, are feed for countless others. Recently, however, their rich contribution has begun to diminish. Over the past fifteen years or so, songbird populations in...

Bird Neighbors
de Neltje Blanchan(Ed. IndyPublish.com) Isbn : 1588278204
23.74 €
A charming, detailed, delightful guide best described by the author, who writes : The plan of the book is not a scientific one, if the term scientific is understood to mean technical and anatomical. The purpose of the writer is to give, in a popular and accessible form, knowledge which is accurate and reliable about the life of our common birds. This knowledge has not been collected from the stuffed carcasses of birds in museums, but gleaned afield. In a word, these short narrative descriptions treat of the bird's characteristics of size, color, and flight ; its peculiarities of instinct and temperament ; its nest and home life ; its choice of food ; its songs ; and of the season in which we may expect it to play its part in the great panorama Nature unfolds with faithful precision year af...

Virus Infections of Birds
de J. B. McFerran(Ed. Elsevier Health Sciences) Isbn : 0444898999
228.98 €
...the book provides the veterinarian with an extremely practical, detailed and reasonably up to date survey of the range of virus infections of birds.

Call of the Loon
de Paul Strong(Ed. Topeka Bindery) Isbn : 0613287800
18.56 €
- Offers an up-to-date, authoritative book on loons. - A perfect blend of personal experience and research.

Sky Atlas 2000.0 2ed Deluxe Edition Laminated
de Wil Tirion, Roger W. Sinnott(Ed. Cambridge University Press) Isbn : 0521654343
94.5 €
'Using data from both the Tycho and Hipparcos Catalogues, 81, 312 stars down to magnitude 8.5 are now plotted on 26 charts. This is nearly double the number of the previous version … The Deluxe Version is spiral-bound and unlaminated. The Field and Desk Versions are available in less expensive unlaminated and unbound format, i.e. loose sheets, or more expensive laminated and spiralbound format … Sky Atlas 2000.0 is an excellent atlas at a very reasonable price, and is suitable for both beginners and experienced observers.' Gordon Nason, Astronomy and Space'It is a splendid mid-range atlas.' Ian Genner, Webb Society Quarterly Journal'… an excellent new edition with changes which are all improvements. Thoroughly recommended for amateurs and I suspect that many profession...