Author: Donald Kroodsma
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328919110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more than 700 online recordings From a leading expert, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist is a basic, how-to guide that teaches anyone--from beginner to advanced birder--how to listen. In understandable and appealing language, Kroodsma explains why and how birds sing, what various calls mean, and what to listen for from the birds around us. The descriptions are accompanied by color photos of the birds, as well as QR codes that link to an online collection of more than 700 recordings. With these resources, readers are prepared to recognize bird sounds and the birds that make them. Kroodsma encourages readers to find the joy of birdsong and curiosity--to observe, listen intently, be curious, ask questions, and realize that many unanswered questions about birdsong don't have to rely on scientists for answers but can be answered by any curious naturalist.
Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist
Author: Donald Kroodsma
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328919110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more than 700 online recordings From a leading expert, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist is a basic, how-to guide that teaches anyone--from beginner to advanced birder--how to listen. In understandable and appealing language, Kroodsma explains why and how birds sing, what various calls mean, and what to listen for from the birds around us. The descriptions are accompanied by color photos of the birds, as well as QR codes that link to an online collection of more than 700 recordings. With these resources, readers are prepared to recognize bird sounds and the birds that make them. Kroodsma encourages readers to find the joy of birdsong and curiosity--to observe, listen intently, be curious, ask questions, and realize that many unanswered questions about birdsong don't have to rely on scientists for answers but can be answered by any curious naturalist.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328919110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Birdsong made easy to understand, lavishly illustrated with color photos, and accompanied by more than 700 online recordings From a leading expert, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist is a basic, how-to guide that teaches anyone--from beginner to advanced birder--how to listen. In understandable and appealing language, Kroodsma explains why and how birds sing, what various calls mean, and what to listen for from the birds around us. The descriptions are accompanied by color photos of the birds, as well as QR codes that link to an online collection of more than 700 recordings. With these resources, readers are prepared to recognize bird sounds and the birds that make them. Kroodsma encourages readers to find the joy of birdsong and curiosity--to observe, listen intently, be curious, ask questions, and realize that many unanswered questions about birdsong don't have to rely on scientists for answers but can be answered by any curious naturalist.
Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Author: Royal Society of South Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Fauna
Author: Tania McCartney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642279545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Age range 5+ Did you know that platypus have retractable webbing on their hind feetto enable an easy transition from swimming to digging? That kangaroos can'tsweat and that the cassowary has no tongue? In Fauna - Australia's MostCurious Creatures, readers are constantly introduced to facts that delight,amaze and induce sheer wonder at the clever design and adaptability of ourmuch-loved native fauna. The information on each individual species is presented in small 'bites'to hold the interest of younger readers, while the information taken in totalgives a comprehensive summary of each species, including breeding and feedinghabits, physical characteristics, habitat and other unique and quirky features. Fauna also has a strong conservation message with an 'extinction roll call'and a rating for the vulnerability of endangered species. The stylised illustrations in Faunaare lively, colourful and informative, highlighting facts that lend themselvesmore to pictures than words e.g. the actual size of crocodile teeth, or themechanics of the echidna's beak. There is also humour in the illustrations - isthat kangaroo with dark glasses actually from a different kind of mob? Readers young and old will be delighted and informed by Fauna.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642279545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Age range 5+ Did you know that platypus have retractable webbing on their hind feetto enable an easy transition from swimming to digging? That kangaroos can'tsweat and that the cassowary has no tongue? In Fauna - Australia's MostCurious Creatures, readers are constantly introduced to facts that delight,amaze and induce sheer wonder at the clever design and adaptability of ourmuch-loved native fauna. The information on each individual species is presented in small 'bites'to hold the interest of younger readers, while the information taken in totalgives a comprehensive summary of each species, including breeding and feedinghabits, physical characteristics, habitat and other unique and quirky features. Fauna also has a strong conservation message with an 'extinction roll call'and a rating for the vulnerability of endangered species. The stylised illustrations in Faunaare lively, colourful and informative, highlighting facts that lend themselvesmore to pictures than words e.g. the actual size of crocodile teeth, or themechanics of the echidna's beak. There is also humour in the illustrations - isthat kangaroo with dark glasses actually from a different kind of mob? Readers young and old will be delighted and informed by Fauna.
A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, Lately the Property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased: which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, ... at Her Late Dwelling-house, in Privy-Garden, Whitehall; ...
Author: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
British Marine Algae
Author: W.H. Grattann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
The Lancet London
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Natural History, According to the Linnæan System, Explained by Familiar Dialogues in Visits to the London Museum. [With Plates.]
Author: John Rippingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Illustrations Of Indian Botany : Or Figures Illustrative Of Each Of The Natural Orders Of Indian Plants, Described In The Author's Prodromus Floræ Peninsulæ Indiæ Orientalis
Author: Robert Wight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Illustrations of Indian Botany; Or Figures Illustrative of Each of the Natural Orders of Indian Plants, Described in the Authors Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis ... by Robert Wight
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Illustrations of Indian Botany
Author: Robert Wight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description