Author: Haynes-Sutton, Ann / Downer, Audrey Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: With a rich avifauna of more than 300 species that includes some 25endemics, the island of Jamaica is an increasingly popular birdingdestination. Containing hundreds of stunning photographs, Birds of ...
Author: Goodfellow, Peter Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconst...
Author: N/A Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The use of DNA and other biological macromolecules has revolutionized systematic studies of evolutionary history. Methods that use sequences of nucleotides and amino acids are now routinely used as da...
Author: Fuller, R. J. Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "This is the book for the thinking bird-watcher and anyone who wants information on why some habitats are more diverse that others." --Habitat Illustrated by David Watson
Author: Wells, Jeffrey V. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. Birder's Conservation Handbook is the onl...
Author: Mitchell, Mike Publisher: First Edition Design ebook Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Welcome to a birding resource designed for the entry level/ beginner birdwatcher and/or lightly experienced birder looking to learn and/or improve their birding knowledge as well as gain useful bird i...
Author: Hattingh, Tian Publisher: The London Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Birds & Bibles in History is the most comprehensive scientific study of the birds mentioned in Christian Bibles ever. It is the result of author Tian Hattingh being both a Biblical Hebrew student and ...
Author: Snow, Barbara / Snow, David Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book's subtitle - A study of an ecological interaction - properly reflects the author's theme but may tend to hide the fact that the relationships between birds and berries can be much more than t...
Author: Snow, Barbara / Snow, David Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The book's subtitle - A study of an ecological interaction - properly reflects the author's theme but may tend to hide the fact that the relationships between birds and berries can be much more than t...
Description: Foreword by David Bellamy: "The authors are to be congratulated on producing a fascinating, authoritative and above all useful contribution to the debate about birds and forestry...do read this book."...
Author: Martin, Graham Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: For many people, watching and studying birds is exclusively a day time activity. However, for many birds twilight and night time are not a barrier to useful activity. It is true that very few birds ar...
Author: Henderson, Carrol L. Publisher: Voyageur Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: They soar and they glide, they flap and they flutter, they swoop and they plummet. Solo or en masse, in formation or pas de deux, birds in flight are in their element, their airborne behavior as vari...
Author: Henderson, Carrol L. Publisher: Voyageur Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: They soar and they glide, they flap and they flutter, they swoop and they plummet. Solo or en masse, in formation or pas de deux, birds in flight are in their element, their airborne behavior as...
Description: Birdwatching has become an increasingly popular pastime in Ireland as elsewhere. Nor is all of the birdwatching done by the Irish. Many professional ornithologists from Britain and Western Europe find...
Author: Thom, Valerie M. Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This impressively comprehensive study and review of the birds in Scotland by Valerie Thom, editor of Scottish Birds and past-President of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, may be said to follow on wh...
Description: The 83 species featured in this book, in date sequence of discovery, had not been recorded in Britain or Ireland before 1946. The original accounts of the sightings published in issues of British Bird...
Author: Schulenberg, Thomas S. / Stotz, Douglas F. / Lane, Daniel F. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of Peru's 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each in 3...
Author: Latta, Steven / Rimmer, Christopher / Keith, Allan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti fills a large void in the literature on birdwatching and the environment in these tropical countries. The first comprehensive field guide devoted to Hispaniol...
Author: Latta, Steven / Rimmer, Christopher / Keith, Allan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti fills a large void in the literature on birdwatching and the environment in these tropical countries. The first comprehensive field guide devoted to Hispaniol...
Description: The Strait of Gibraltar is famous as a major point of passage for Palaearctic birds migrating between their European breeding grounds and their winter quarters in Africa. Clive Finlayson, a native of ...
Author: Raffaele, Herbert / Wiley, James / Garrido, Orlando H. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fully illustrated, easy to use, and completely up-to-date, Birds of the West Indies is the only field guide that covers all of the bird species known to occur in the region--including migrants and inf...
Author: Raffaele, Herbert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Fully illustrated, easy to use, and completely up-to-date, Birds of the West Indies is the only field guide that covers all of the bird species known to occur in the region--including migrants and inf...
Author: Hilty, Steven L. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together ...
Author: Hilty, Steven L. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together ...
Author: Warhol, Tom / Schneck, Marcus Publisher: Quarry Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Embrace your love of birdwatching, every day of the year! By nature, bird lovers are naturalists and collectors, and you know how easy it is to devote hours upon hours of time—a lifetime, in fac...
Author: Batten, Leo / Sorensen, Jeremy Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Birdwatchers’ Year is, in essence, six ’years’ of bird activity and behaviour as recorded, month by month, by six experienced bird watchers and ornithologists. The result is a fascinati...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Author: West, George C. / Butler, Carol A. Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Hummingbirds may be the smallest birds in the world, but they have the biggest appetites. Their wings flutter on average fifty to eighty times each second as they visit hundreds of flowers over the co...
Author: Paulson, Dennis Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America. Dragonflies and damselflies are large, st...
Author: Hickling, Ronald Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This year, 1983, the British Trust for Ornithology celebrates its first 50 years and this volume records much of the history of birdwatching and ornithology since the early 1930s. The book is not a hi...
Author: Prater, A J. Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Estuaries are rightly of great interest and concern to the birdwatcher. Most teem with thousands of waders, geese, ducks, gulls and other species that use them at times throughout the year; they are a...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Description: Desmond Nethersole-Thompson has been studying his favourite bird, the greenshank Tringa nebularia, since May 1932. This book, published in 1976, owes much to the interest, almost an obsession, of the ...
Author: Grant, P J. Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This second edition of Peter Grant’s guide has been extensively revisedand has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species ofgulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the U...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Author: Capainolo, Prof. Peter / Butler, Carol Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How Fast Can a Falcon Dive? explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. In a reader friendly question and answer format, and complete wi...
Description: Prized for their feathers or eggs, raised for their meat or their beauty or simply for fun, poultry of a dazzling array of sorts and sizes have a place in the heart of farmers, ranchers, and bird...
Author: Heinrichs, Christine Publisher: Voyageur Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Prized for their feathers or eggs, raised for their meat or their beauty or simply for fun, poultry of a dazzling array of sorts and sizes have a place in the heart of farmers, ranchers, and bird fan...
Author: Vaughan, Richard Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Arctic birds have long held a fascination for Richard Vaughan, whose trips to the region, watching and photographing birds, have provided the raw material for a number of previous publications. Here, ...
Description: Denis Summers-Smith first took up the study of the House Sparrow in 1947, thinking that the difficulties of travel in post-war Britain would best suit the study of a species always close at hand. The ...
Author: Gentile, Olivia Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: After her four kids were nearly grown and she was about to turn 50, Phoebe Snetsinger was told she had less than a year to live. Snetsinger, a St. Louis housewife and avid backyard birder, decided to ...
Description: The involvement of humans with ducks, geese and swans is probably closer than with any other group of birds. This involvement in its many aspects is the theme of this compelling account by the Assista...
Author: Forshaw, Joseph M. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, eas...
Description: Pines are a distinct group of coniferous trees that grow in the Northern Hemisphere. They aren't frequently found in the tropics or the Southern Hemisphere. Pines are also noticeably absent from the f...
Author: Newton, Ian Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: DrNewton’s book is concerned with all aspects of population regulation indiurnal birds of prey, their social behaviour, dispersion, numbers,movements, breeding and mortality. He has drawn on his ...
Author: Newton, Ian Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book meets the demand for a comprehensive introduction to understanding the processes of population limitation. Recognized world-wide as a respected biologist and communicator, Dr. Ian Newton has...
Author: Taylor, Barry Publisher: Christopher Helm Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogenous family of birds spread throughout the world. Most species are solitary and somewhat secretive, and therefore high on the wanted lists of many birders,...
Author: Dudley, Steve / Benton, Tim Publisher: Poyser Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Rare Birds Day by Day creates a fascinating look at the world of scarce and rare birds found in Britain and Ireland. Written by well known and experienced British birders and rare bird finders, this e...
