Backyard Birdfeeding for Beginners
de Mathew Tekulsky (Ed. Gramercy Books) Isbn : 0517221500
6.67 € / 43.75 FF
In this fun, informative book, Matthew Tekulsky shows you how to turn your backyard into a bird-friendly garden environment. With charming black and white illustrations throughout, this gift volume explains what plants will attract birds, how to identify the birds that appear, what they like to eat, and how to provide them food and water year-round. Backyard birdfeeding is a hobby that millions of people feel both gives back to the world, and feeds the heart and spirit. Once the backyard space...

Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats
de Nick Davis (Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0856611352
27.49 € / 180.32 FF
In this fascinating new book, Nick Davies describes the natural histories of these brood parasites and examines many of the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their prey. Brood parasites fill their armory with adaptations including exquisite egg mimicry, rapid laying, ejection of host eggs, murder of host young, chick mimicry and manipulative begging behavior: ploys shown by recent research to have evolved in response to host...

The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae
de Clifford Frith, Dawn Frith (Ed. Oxford University Press) Isbn : 0198548443
146.19 € / 958.94 FF
In this brand new guide, renowned experts Clifford and Dawn Frith include all the latest scientific discoveries on every aspect of the bowerbird family. These fascinating and complex birds, found in New Guinea and Australia, are characterized by their unique and intricate 'bowers' which the males build and decorate to entice and woo the females. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates and line drawings, The Bowerbirds will be welcomed by all ornithologists, andparticularly by those with an...

A Sense of the Morning: Field Notes of a Born Observer
de David Brendan Hopes (Ed. Milkweed Editions) Isbn : 1571312331
11.65 € / 76.42 FF
In this book, David Brendan Hopes fuses the spiritual and the mystical with the natural, invoking the possibility of grace. Writing about hiking, camping, and particularly about birds, he invites readers to mark the moment when flower, bird, and mountain announce themselves to the soul, bristling and wondrous.

A World Checklist of Birds
de Burt L. Monroe, Charles G. Sibley (Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300055471
54.29 € / 356.12 FF
In this book, Burt L. Monroe, Jr., and Charles G. Sibley provide a checklist of 9,702 living avian species based on the Sibley-Ahlquist-Monroe classification presented in their 1990 book Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World and its 1993 Supplement.

A World Checklist of Birds
de Burt L. Monroe, Charles G. Sibley (Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300070837
29.23 € / 191.74 FF
In this book, Burt L. Monroe, Jr., and Charles G. Sibley provide a checklist of 9,702 living avian species based on the Sibley-Ahlquist-Monroe classification presented in their 1990 book Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World and its 1993 Supplement.

Familiar Birds of Lakes and Rivers
de Richard K. Walton (Ed. Alfred a Knopf) Isbn : 0679749225
7.51 € / 49.26 FF
In these pages you’ll see boldly colored Red-winged Blackbirds, long-legged Great Blue Herons, secretive rails, and many more beautiful and varied birds of North America’s lakes and rivers. This guide is designed to help you identify these birds in the field and learn about their habits, life cycles, and history. This guide features 80 species of birds that occur on or near North American lakes, ponds, and rivers. They include swans, geese, and ducks ; loons and grebes ; wading birds ; cranes ; marsh birds ; shorebirds and gulls ; birds of prey ; and songbirds. In addition, you’ll find tips on birding technique (including the use of binoculars and spotting scopes) and identification skills, as well as notes on conservation and more.

The Geese of Beaver Bog
de Bernd Heinrich (Ed. Ecco) Isbn : 0060197455
20.83 € / 136.64 FF
In the summer of 1998, award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich found himself the unwitting -- but doting -- foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep. Good-natured, spirited Peep drew Heinrich into her world -- one he found to be filled with as much color and drama as that of her human counterparts. And so, with a scientist's training and a nature lover's boundless curiosity and enthusiasm, Heinrich set out to observe and understand the travails and triumphs of the Canada geese,...

Audubon's Wilderness Palette: The Birds of Canada
de David Lank (Ed. Key Porter Books) Isbn : 1550139789
33.37 € / 218.89 FF
In the summer of 1833, John James Audubon, his son and several friends embarked on the schooner«Ripley»and sailed from Eastport, Maine to Nova Scotia to the St. Lawrence. Audubon kept a detailed diary describing the land, the sea, the vegetation, the people and, above all, the birds that he encountered. Many of the paintings he created along the way are considered his most beautiful and are reproduced here in«Audubon's Wilderness Palette.»Many of the birds represented here have become extinct or are threatened. With the strokes of his brush, Audubon has in many ways preserved a natural legacy, permitting those who view his paintings and engravings the opportunity to visit a world that has vanished. David Lank has written twenty-one books on subjects ranging from wildlife art to trekking in...

Ecology and Management of Cowbirds and Their Hosts: Studies in the Conservation of North American Passerine Birds
de James N. M. Smith (Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292777388
70.99 € / 465.66 FF
In the past two centuries, cowbirds have increased in numbers and extended their range across North America, while many of the native songbird species whose nests they parasitize to raise their young have declined. This timely book collects forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds. The book's goals are to explore the biology of cowbirds, the threats they pose to host species and populations, and the management programs that are being undertaken to minimize these threats. The book is organized into five sections, each with an extended editors' introduction that places the contributions in a broad, up-to-date setting. The sections cover : sum ; The changing abundance of cowbirds and the ways in which their numbers can be estimated. sum ; Hos...