Peterson First Guide to Birds of North America
de Roger Tory Peterson Institute (Ed. Houghton Mifflin (P)) Isbn : 0395406846
4.13 € / 27.09 FF
Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.

Peterson First Guide to Birds of North America
de Roger Tory Peterson (Ed. Houghton Mifflin Company) Isbn : 0395906660
4.97 € / 32.6 FF
Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.

Small-Headed Flycatcher.: Seen Yesterday. He Didn't Leave His Name. and Other Stories
de Pete Dunne (Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292715994
20.88 € / 136.96 FF
Pete Dunne has been watching birds since he was seven years old. But not just watching--deeply absorbing every nuance of color, markings, shape, flight, and song ; all the subtle clues that can identify a bird barely glimpsed among the highest branches in fading twilight. With the same skill, he has been observing and writing about birding and birders for over twenty years, using humor, sentiment, occasional sarcasm, and unashamed passion for his chosen profession to explore why birdwatching is...

Small-Headed Flycatcher: Seen Yesterday. He Didn't Leave His Name. and Other Stories
de Pete Dunne (Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292716001
14.15 € / 92.82 FF
Pete Dunne has been watching birds since he was seven years old. But not just watching--deeply absorbing every nuance of color, markings, shape, flight, and song ; all the subtle clues that can identify a bird barely glimpsed among the highest branches in fading twilight. With the same skill, he has been observing and writing about birding and birders for over twenty years, using humor, sentiment, occasional sarcasm, and unashamed passion for his chosen profession to explore why birdwatching is...

Pennsylvania Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species
de (Ed. Waterford Pr) Isbn : 1583550097
4.97 € / 32.6 FF
Pennsylvania Birds, An Introduction to Familiar Species, is a must-have, reference guide for beginners and experts alike. Whether you're on a nature hike or in your own backyard, you'll want to take along a copy of this indispensable guide. The Pocket Naturalist(tm) series is an introduction to common plants and animals and natural phenomena. Each pocket-sized, folding guide highlights up to 150 species and most feature a map highlighting prominent sanctuaries and outstanding natural attractions. Each is laminated for durability.

Penguins: Living in Two Worlds
de Martin Renner (Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300102771
33.41 € / 219.16 FF
Penguins are the world's most easily recognized--and perhaps most appealing--group of birds. Flightless, penguins spend the vast majority of their lives swimming in the sea, yet they cannot shake off their evolutionary past: they are warm-blooded air breathers, and they must return to land to lay their eggs. Thus penguins face the challenges of balancing two worlds-the land for breeding, the sea for feeding. This engaging book offers a complete and up-to-date overview of all the world's penguin species as well as new insights into their dual lives. The book shows that the diversity of penguin species, and in fact all aspects of their biology, can be explained largely according to the distance they travel for food. Exploring penguin colonies, social behavior, evolution, ecology, conservatio...

Penguin Biology
de Lloyd S. Davis (Ed. Academic Pr) Isbn : 012206335X
137.80 € / 903.91 FF
Penguin Biology is the first broad-based collection of biological and ecological studies of these unique birds to be published since 1975. Topics have since become broad ecological hypotheses, not species-specific descriptions, and new technology has taken observations into the oceanic depths. Penguin Biology shows new techniques and the applications mad of them in contemporary biological and evolutionary theory.Penguin Biology is an invaluable reference for ornithologists, animal behaviorists, animal physiologists, marine zoologists, marine ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and Antarctic researchers.

Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation
de Paul A. Johnsgard (Ed. Smithsonian Books) Isbn : 1588340392
29.19 € / 191.47 FF
Paul Johnsgard, one of the world's leading ornithologists, has written this book as a call to action. Conservationists have seen a marked decline in the populations of North American grouse, particularly the grassland-adapted species. Unless action is taken swiftly, at least one species-Attwater's prairie-chicken-is certain to follow the heath hen into extinction. Johnsgard begins with the tragic history of the heath hen, which became extinct in 1932. He devotes a chapter each to the greater...

Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936
de C. John Sullivan (Ed. Johns Hopkins University Press) Isbn : 0801871557
29.19 € / 191.47 FF
Part documentary, part nostalgic history, and part informational catalogue, Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819–1936 explores a century of hunting on the Chesapeake Bay and its major tributaries--from the heyday of gun clubs and market shooting to the rise of conservation law. Drawing on oral histories and period documents and artifacts, C. John Sullivan, a longtime collector of decoys and hunting paraphernalia and a frequent guest curator of exhibits, looks at the effects of technological change, the relationship between hunter and dog, the recognition of decoys as folk art, and the history of hunting. He also introduces us to famous and lesser-known carvers and others who share an enthusiasm for this feature of Chesapeake cultural history and life.

Bird Parasite Interactions: Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour
de J. E. Loye (Ed. Oxford University Press) Isbn : 0198577389
124.85 € / 818.96 FF
Parasites play a role in almost every aspect of the ecology, behaviour, and evolution of birds, and of vertebrates in general. This book looks at bird diseases and their epidemiology from an ecological and evolutionary perspective, investigating how individual growth, survival, and reproduction, as well as species abundance and distribution, are affected by parasite burdens.