8040 livres sur les oiseaux.

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: Snipe to Pigeons
de Peter Higgins (Ed. OUP Australia and New Zealand) Isbn : 0195530705
99.99 € / 655.89 FF
The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB) is one of the most exciting and significant projects in Australasian ornithology today. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and accurate synthesis of our knowledge of all the birds that live in the region. Each volume includes a full list of references, black-and-white illustrations of behavioral postures and plumage features, maps showing breeding and non-breeding distribution, sonagrams of calls and songs, and diagrams...

Gulls Of North America, Europe, And Asia
de Klaus Malling Olsen (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 069111997X
47.30 € / 310.27 FF
The gulls are a large family of seabirds, familiar and distinctive as a group, but one of the most challenging to separate at the species level, especially in their various stages of immature plumage. This guide offers the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia. Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson treat a total of forty-three species--each depicted in considerable detail, with a full description of every plumage and racial variation. The text...

Gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia
de Klaus Malling Olsen (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691113270
43.81 € / 287.37 FF
The gulls are a large family of seabirds, familiar and distinctive as a group, but one of the most challenging to separate at the species level, especially in their various stages of immature plumage. This guide offers the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the gulls of Europe, Asia, and North America. Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson treat a total of forty-three species--each depicted in considerable detail, with a full description of every plumage and racial variation. The text is complemented not only by superb color paintings by Larsson, but also by 800 color photographs. Gulls explore a variety of habitats, consume a wide range of food, and are often extremely abundant. They are also great wanderers, with several American species often appearing in Western Europe and v...

Who Killed the Great Auk?
de Jeremy Gaskell (Ed. Oxford University Press) Isbn : 0198564783
46.19 € / 302.99 FF
The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. This curious seabird was flightless, stood upright like a human, and sported an enormous beak. In this fascinating book, Jeremy A. Gaskell takes the reader on a tour of some of the wildest and coldest places on earth as he tries to uncover the facts behind its disappearance, and the reasons why attempts to save it were in vain.

The Goshawk
de T. H. White (Ed. The Lyons Press) Isbn : 1558214356
11.91 € / 78.12 FF
The Goshawk chronicles a concentrated duel between the author and a great hawk. It is the journal of an intense clash of wills - during the bird's training - in which the pride and endurance of the wild raptor are worn down by the insistent willpower of the falconer. The story is by turns comic and tragic - and it is all-absorbing. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 222 pages, diagrams)

The Golden Eagle
de John A. Love, Jeff Watson (Ed. Shire Publications Ltd) Isbn : 074780091X
2.96 € / 19.42 FF
The Golden Eagle is the first comprehensive monograph on this majestic bird in over 40 years, and covers all aspects of this spectacular and popular species' biology and ecology. Jeff Watson has worked on eagles in Scotland for over 15 years and his studies provide the foundation for a treatment which also includes the most up-to-date information from work in North America, continental Europe, and throughout the world. This global view allows fascinating insight into the species' relationships...

The Golden Eagle
de Jeff Watson (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0856610992
54.68 € / 358.68 FF
The Golden Eagle is the first comprehensive monograph on this majestic bird in over 40 years, and covers all aspects of this spectacular and popular species' biology and ecology. Jeff Watson has worked on eagles in Scotland for over 15 years and his studies provide the foundation for a treatment which also includes the most up-to-date information from work in North America, continental Europe, and throughout the world. This global view allows fascinating insight into the species' relationships with a variety of habitats. Key Features: Explores factors limiting Golden Eagle numbers and breeding performance Reviews eagle predation on livestock Addresses conservation issues and the species' fortune in the past and present

Wildlife of the Galapagos
de Julian Fitter (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691102953
17.00 € / 111.51 FF
The Gal aacute ; pagos is a truly special place. Unlike the rest of the world's archipelagoes, it still has 95 percent of its prehuman quota of species. Wildlife of the Gal aacute ; pagos is the most superbly illustrated and comprehensive identification guide ever to the natural splendor of these incomparable islands--islands today threatened by alien species and diseases that have diminished but not destroyed what so enchanted Darwin on his arrival there in 1835. Covering over 200 commonly seen birds, mammals, reptiles, invertebrates, and plants, it reveals the archipelago's striking beauty through more than 400 color photographs, maps, and drawings and well-written, informative text. While the Gal aacute ; pagos Giant Tortoise, the Gal aacute ; pagos Sea Lion, and the Flightless Cormoran...

Complete Guide to the Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean
de Hadoram Shirihai (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691114145
38.49 € / 252.48 FF
The first of its kind, this spectacularly illustrated book is the only complete guide to the wildlife and natural history of the vast and beautiful Antarctic region. Covering the Antarctic continent, the southern ocean, and the subantarctic islands, this guide illustrates all of the region's breeding birds and marine mammals with stunning color photographs. In addition to the color plates, it features distribution maps and up-to-date species accounts expertly detailing abundance, seasonal status, and conservation prospects. The volume also covers numerous nonbreeding species, migrants, and vagrants. Regional chapters describe all of the subantarctic islands, in addition to most regularly visited sites in Antarctica, and are accompanied by maps of each area and photographs of each locale. T...

Peregrine Falcon
de Derek A. Ratcliffe (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0856610607
48.02 € / 314.99 FF
The first edition of The Peregrine Falcon was widely recognized as a classic of its kind, documenting not only the species' biology but the sad story of its decline due to the impact of pesticides. This extensively revised and enlarged second edition takes full account of important new developments in the story of this bird during the years since the first publication. Many of the tables and figures have been revised and brought up-to-date so that this volume is by far the most detailed and...