7551 livres sur les oiseaux.

Birds of Vancouver
de Wayne Campbell, Robin Bovey, Andy Bezener (Ed. Lone Pine Publishing) Isbn : 1551052350
10.21 €
This attractive guide helps you identify 125 of the most common bird species seen in Vancouver. Expanded and completely revised and updated with new illustrations, this book is a must for birders on the Lower Mainland.

Birds of Vancouver and Lower Mainland
de Robin Bovey (Ed. Lone Pine Publishing,Canada) Isbn : 0919433731
12.97 €
This attractive guide helps you identify 125 of the most common bird species seen in Vancouver. Expanded and completely revised and updated with new illustrations, this book is a must for birders on the Lower Mainland.

Book of North American Birds
de Reader's Digest, Brenda Jackson, Ronald L. McDonald (Ed. Reader's Digest Association) Isbn : 0895773511
25.98 €
This attractive and informative book of 600 species includes a«special collection»of more than 100 species that are rare. Each portrait includes full-color original artwork ; details on identification, habitat, nesting, and food ; and a color-coded range map.

Book Of North American Birds
de Reader's Digest Reader's Digest Editors (Ed. Reader's Digest Association) Isbn : 0762105763
15.73 €
This attractive and informative book of 600 species includes a«special collection»of more than 100 species that are rare. Each portrait includes full-color original artwork ; details on identification, habitat, nesting, and food ; and a color-coded range map.

How Birds Migrate
de Paul Kerlinger (Ed. Stackpole Books) Isbn : 0811724441
21.15 €
This appeared some time ago but deserves ongoing mention as an excellent discussion of the mysteries of migration. Each chapters here focuses on a single aspect of migration, revealing the unusual complexity underlying questions about bird migration processes. Ornithologist Kerlinger provides a lively blend of case study questions and scientific answers which include plenty of maps for at-a-glance details. A fine presentation.

The Gift of Birds: True Encounters With Avian Spirits
de Larry Habegger, A.Greimann Carlson (Ed. Travelers' Tales, Incorporated) Isbn : 1885211414
14.16 €
This anthology of 28 essays (five are original but most are excerpted from books) by 26 authors deals with how birds have affected people, primarily in a spiritual manner. The writers are for the most part naturalists but include such well-known disparate personalities as Peter Matthiessen and Alice Walker, as well as top birding gurus Kenn Kaufman and Pete Dunne. These thoughtful, entertaining essays range from Central Park to Australia, from the Himalayas, Bali, and Africa to Utah. Dunne writes about how watching a birdfeeder brought joy to his ill father, Walker about how she was inspired by the maternal devotions of a hen in Bali. Others tell of encounters with birds of prey, rare cranes, and albatrosses; a person who gathers roadkills to feed vultures; or watching the antics of loons ...

Bird Migration: A General Survey
de Peter Berthold (Ed. OUP Oxford) Isbn : 0198507879
47.00 €
This accessible introduction to the science of bird migration--the only such book currently available--details the incredible stamina and navigation skills exhibited by migrating birds, as well as the field's latest ideas, hypotheses, experimental results, and methods. Twelve fascinating chapters cover key topics such as the different types of migration, migratory behavior, physiological adaptations, orientation mechanisms and navigation, and conservation needs of migrants. Written by one of the...

Restoring North America's Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology
de Robert A. Askins (Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300079672
31.19 €
This accessible book draws on recent research on bird species and their habitats to explain how basic principles of bird ecology and landscape ecology can help us create scientifically sound plans for protecting and restoring the rich diversity of North American birds. This edition includes an afterword that reviews noteworthy literature that has appeared since the first edition was completed in 1999. This new material - on such key issues as the importance of preserving large expanses of...

Restoring North America's Birds: Lessons from Landscape Ecology
de Robert A. Askins (Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300093160
16.12 €
This accessible book draws on recent research on bird species and their habitats to explain how basic principles of bird ecology and landscape ecology can help us create scientifically sound plans for protecting and restoring the rich diversity of North American birds. This edition includes an afterword that reviews noteworthy literature that has appeared since the first edition was completed in 1999. This new material - on such key issues as the importance of preserving large expanses of...

Common Birds Of Hawai'i
de H. Douglas Pratt (Ed. Bess Press) Isbn : 1573061824
3.90 €
Thirty-nine of Hawai'i's most commonly sighted birds, illustrated by H. Douglas Pratt, with common names (in English and Japanese), scientific names, Hawaiian names, sizes, wingspans, habitats, and origins.