8040 livres sur les oiseaux.

Starlings and Mynas
de C.J. Feare, Adrian Craig (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 069100496X
45.80 € / 300.43 FF
The starling family contains some of the most common and some of the rarest birds in the world--ranging from the ubiquitous Common Starling to species restricted to single islands in the South Pacific. Starlings and Mynas is the first comprehensive, one-volume guide to all 114 members of the family. The main text of the book presents descriptions and illustrations of every species and many distinctive subspecies. It offers extensive information about identification, ecology, and behavior,...

Gardens for Birds, Hummingbirds Butterflies: Landscaping to Welcome Wildlife to Your Yard
de Larry D. Harris (Ed. Creative Publishing International, US) Isbn : 1589230019
10.31 € / 67.63 FF
The spectacular color and motion of hummingbirds, songbirds, and butterflies adds a breathtaking dimension to any garden. This book will show readers how to design and maintain a landscape that will attract these«moving flowers»to the yard. Unlike similar books, which are mostly just catalogs of bird and butterfly species, this new entry to the Black Decker Outdoor Home series focuses on designing, planting, and caring for a landscape that will attract and sustain birds and butterflies....

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
de David Allen Sibley (Ed. Knopf Publishing Group) Isbn : 0679451218
15.89 € / 104.23 FF
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations #8212 ; more than 4,600 in total #8212 ; with...

The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds
de David Wentworth Lazaroff (Ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Pr) Isbn : 1886679002
3.94 € / 25.84 FF
The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds takes the reader into the sometimes-mysterious, always-fascinating world of North American hummingbirds. The text, which is supplemented by numerous sidebars and 29 full-color photographs, is written in an engaging, comprehensible manner. Topics covered in this book include: anatomical adaptations of hummingbirds, coevolution of hummingbirds and their flowers, convergent evolution of North American hummingbirds and North American hummingbird flowers, territorial and reproductive behavior, migration and distribution, the Desert Museum's hummingbird aviary, and attracting and enjoying wild hummingbirds.

The Birds of Africa: Game Birds to Pigeons
de Emil K. Urban (Ed. ) Isbn : 0121373029
Prix : NC
The second volume in this series continues the high standards set by the first. The three editors have followed the vision of the late Leslie Brown and organized a team of internationally known experts to help them produce an up-to-date and comprehensive work. This volume covers all birds found in Africa, from gamebirds to pigeons. In order to do justice to the ever increasing volume of publications on African birds and the wealth of material collated by the contributors, and to fulfil the aim...

Gulls: A Guide to Identification
de Peter J. Grant (Ed. Harrell Books) Isbn : 093113014X
29.87 € / 195.93 FF
The Second Edition of Peter Grant's guide has been extensively revised and has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species of gulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the USA have been added.The book now covers 31 species and has been increased in length from 280 to 352 pages. More than 280 new photographs have been added or substituted, bringing the total to 544, including 79 photographs for the eight North American additional species.The great increase in interest in...

Gulls: A Guide to Identification
de P.J. Grant (Ed. Poyser) Isbn : 0856610445
44.57 € / 292.36 FF
The Second Edition of Peter Grant's guide has been extensively revised and has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species of gulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the USA have been added.The book now covers 31 species and has been increased in length from 280 to 352 pages. More than 280 new photographs have been added or substituted, bringing the total to 544, including 79 photographs for the eight North American additional species.The great increase in interest in gull identification since the publication of the first edition (and the author's series on that topic in British Birds) has helped bring much new information to light. As a result some revision was made to almost every text page and most of the identification drawings were improved in some way ; in ad...

Gulls: Guide to Identification
de P. J. Grant (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0122956400
23.86 € / 156.51 FF
The Second Edition of Gulls: A Guide to Identification incorporates a great deal of new information discovered since the last edition. Most of the entries have been updated, and the species drawings and distribution maps have been improved. Gulls details 31 species, and includes a new section on eight extra species which occur on the west coast of Canada and the United States. The book now features all species and subspecies which occur regularly in the whole of North America. Key Features...

Ecophysiology of Desert Birds
de Gordon Lindsay Maclean (Ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K) Isbn : 3540592695
99.99 € / 655.89 FF
The scientific study of birds in arid regions has been conducted more or less intensively for about 40 years. This is an appropriate time to draw together the threads of the diverse research on birds living in such an extreme environment. Topics include : Desert Avifaunas ; Food and Energy ; Water Drinking ; Water Regulation ; Thermoregulation ; Timing of Breeding ; Ecology of Breeding.

Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology
de Michael A. Patten, Guy McCaskie, Philip Unitt (Ed. University of California Press) Isbn : 0520235932
55.76 € / 365.76 FF
The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to...