Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Peregrine Sketchbook
de C. F. Tunnicliffe(Ed. Excellent Press) Isbn : 1900318024
23.56 €
This is a fascinating nature diary, illustrated with stunning color paintings and engravings and exceptional in the quality of its production. Tunnicliffe recorded his encounter with a pair of Peregrine falcons at a clifftop nest site, the progress of the brooding birds, the growing chicks, their fledgling and subsequent flight.

Blackhearts â€' Ecology in Outback Australia
de Richard Symanski(Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300078196
29.54 €
This is a fascinating firsthand account of the adventures of an ornithological field team studying long-tailed finches (blackhearts) in primitive outback Australia. The experiences of the author, his wife, behavioral ecologist Nancy Burley, their one-year-old son, and four American student-assistants provide rare insights into social relationships and problems that can develop on field expeditions and how they can adversely affect the scientific endeavor.

The Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible: The A-to-Z Guide To Feeders, Seed Mixes, Projects And Treats
de Sally Roth(Ed. Rodale Books) Isbn : 0875968341
28.46 €
This is a copious, easy-to-use guide to bird feeding with 275 photographs and 125 illustrations. The pages devoted to the birds themselves--from blackbirds to wrens-- offer a description of each (including a color photo), a list of each bird's favorite foods, and a discussion of its behavior. The authors then provide extensive lists of flowers, fruit, berries, vegetables, plants, and seeds that attract birds, and detailed information on everything from baffles, banding, binoculars, bird counts, bird watching, binoculars, and field guides to discussions of bird communication, bullies and nuisance birds, and bird migration. And that's not all: Roth and Burgoyne offer instructions on how to photograph and draw birds, and how to build birdbaths and feeders; and they even present recipes for bi...

The Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible: The A-to-Z Guide To Feeders, Seed Mixes, Projects, And Treats
de Sally Roth(Ed. Rodale Books) Isbn : 0875969186
20.89 €
This is a copious, easy-to-use guide to bird feeding with 275 photographs and 125 illustrations. The pages devoted to the birds themselves--from blackbirds to wrens-- offer a description of each (including a color photo), a list of each bird's favorite foods, and a discussion of its behavior. The authors then provide extensive lists of flowers, fruit, berries, vegetables, plants, and seeds that attract birds, and detailed information on everything from baffles, banding, binoculars, bird counts, bird watching, binoculars, and field guides to discussions of bird communication, bullies and nuisance birds, and bird migration. And that's not all: Roth and Burgoyne offer instructions on how to photograph and draw birds, and how to build birdbaths and feeders; and they even present recipes for bi...

How to Build Everything You Need for Your Birds, from Aviaries.to Nestboxes
de Dominic Larosa(Ed. Larosa Pubns) Isbn : 0967262208
14.25 €
This is a construction manual intended for both budding novices and experienced bird breeders alike. Comprehensively written and professionally illustrated, the book is loaded with construction details, diagrams and pictures, material lists, insulating and finishing techniques and tips, environmental concerns, simple step by step instructions and, essentially, everything you need to know about building everything you need for your birds. Every plan and construction detail is compiled from years of hands on experience by the author in the raising and breeding of birds ranging from finches, canaries and larger softbills to most of the hardbills including (but not limited to) parakeets, budgies, and cockatiels, on up to amazons, cockatoos, macaws, and so on. There are projects ranging from si...

The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Birds Of Britain, Europe Africa
de David Alderton(Ed. Lorenz Books) Isbn : 0754814971
20.06 €
This is a comprehensive visual guide to the species inhabiting the European and African continents, and includes birdwatchers' favorites and lesser known varieties.

Illustrated Guide to the Birds of Southern Africa
de Sinclair(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691044694
62.89 €
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date field guide to the birds of Southern Africa, featuring more than 4000 newly commissioned images. Intended to aid birders in identifying and distinguishing birds in one of the world's richest birding areas, the book depicts over 900 species, resulting in the most comprehensively illustrated field guide ever produced for Southern Africa. Although the region contains less than three percent of the world's land area, more than ten percent of the world's bird...

A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America
de Steve N. G. Howell, Sophie Webb(Ed. OUP Oxford) Isbn : 0198540124
49.61 €
This is a completely new in-depth field guide to the 1,070 bird species, including North American migrants, found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and western Nicaragua. More than 180 species are endemic to this region and the book details their appearance, voice, habitat, behaviour (including nests and eggs) and distribution. Range maps are included with species accounts, and introductory essays give essential background information, with special appendices summarizing useful information on the avifaunas of various offshore Pacific and Caribbean islands. The Guide's striking illustrations include 71 colour plates and 39 black-and-white drawings, based on the authors' field experience and in many cases detailing plumages never before illustrated. Authoritative and up-to...

The Bottom of the Main Sequence-And Beyond: Proceedings of the Eso Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 10-12 August 1994
de Christopher G. Tinney(Ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K) Isbn : 3540591710
25.52 €
This is a complete overview of the state of the art in the study of very-low-mass stars, especially brown dwarfs. It covers observations as well as modelling techniques, especially addressing the current statuts of our theoretical understanding of these objects; the relation of observed luminosity and mass functions to star formation. Besides the problems of clustering, surface activity, and current estimates of the mass density in low-mass stars, the reader will also learn how many bona fide brown dwarfs have been unambiguously detected so far. The book addresses astronomers and astrophysicists, researchers and graduate students.

A Field Guide to Seabirds of the World
de Peter Harrison(Ed. Stephen Greene Pr) Isbn : 0828906106
23.7 €
This is a companion volume to Harrison's comprehensive and superb Seabirds ( LJ 11/1/83), which offers full species accounts, 324 maps, and numerous color paintings. Handier for field use, the present title has an updated, briefer text, condensed species accounts, and smaller scale maps. The species accounts have sections on identification, habits, distribution, and similar species. A unique feature is a section of 764 color photos taken by 300 naturalists. Harrison's seabird definition is expansive, including not only truly pelagic petrels and shearwaters but also gulls, penguins, loons, pelicans, etc. Both books deserve wide use in academic and public libraries. Henry T. Armistead, Thomas Jefferson Univ. Lib., PhiladelphiaCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.