Author: John Farrand
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN: 9780394533841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist's Union.
The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding: Gulls to dippers
Author: John Farrand
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN: 9780394533841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist's Union.
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN: 9780394533841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
An advanced field handbook to the birds of North America: text by 61 key experts, with their personal secrets for identifying particular species with hundreds of color photographs and paintings. The first guide based on the new classification of the American Ornithologist's Union.
Warblers to Sparrows
Author: National Audubon Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394533834
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394533834
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Agriculture Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Nightjars and Their Allies
Author: D.T. Holyoak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198549871
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
"All the species are illustrated in 23 colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock. He has also contributed text drawings that illustrate behaviour and other features."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198549871
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
"All the species are illustrated in 23 colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock. He has also contributed text drawings that illustrate behaviour and other features."--BOOK JACKET.
Neotropical Migratory Birds
Author: Richard DeGraaf
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501734016
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
Thrushes, warblers, vireos, and tanagers are probably the most familiar of the Neotropical migrants—birds that breed in the United States and Canada, then journey to spend the winter in the Caribbean, Mexico, or southward. But this extraordinary group actually comprises a large number of diverse species, including waterfowl, shorebirds, terns, hawks, flycatchers, and hummingbirds. In their compendious review of information on these birds, Richard M. DeGraaf and John H. Rappole illuminate the need for a thorough understanding of the ecology of each species, one that exte4nds throughout the entire life cycle. The authors argue convincingly that conservation efforts must be based on such an understanding and carried out across a species' range—not limited to the breeding grounds. This book is the first to summarize in one volume much-needed practical data about the distribution and breeding habitat requirements of migratory birds in North and South America. The body of the book consists of natural history accounts of more than 350 species of Neotropical migrants, including a brief description of each bird's range, status, habitats on breeding grounds, nest site, and wintering areas. The authors provide a complete range map of each species' distribution in the Western Hemisphere as well as notes on the distribution—basic data that until recently have largely been unavailable in usable form to ornithologists and land and resource managers. An appendix lists species that are increasing or decreasing at significant rates in various physiographic regions of North America.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501734016
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
Thrushes, warblers, vireos, and tanagers are probably the most familiar of the Neotropical migrants—birds that breed in the United States and Canada, then journey to spend the winter in the Caribbean, Mexico, or southward. But this extraordinary group actually comprises a large number of diverse species, including waterfowl, shorebirds, terns, hawks, flycatchers, and hummingbirds. In their compendious review of information on these birds, Richard M. DeGraaf and John H. Rappole illuminate the need for a thorough understanding of the ecology of each species, one that exte4nds throughout the entire life cycle. The authors argue convincingly that conservation efforts must be based on such an understanding and carried out across a species' range—not limited to the breeding grounds. This book is the first to summarize in one volume much-needed practical data about the distribution and breeding habitat requirements of migratory birds in North and South America. The body of the book consists of natural history accounts of more than 350 species of Neotropical migrants, including a brief description of each bird's range, status, habitats on breeding grounds, nest site, and wintering areas. The authors provide a complete range map of each species' distribution in the Western Hemisphere as well as notes on the distribution—basic data that until recently have largely been unavailable in usable form to ornithologists and land and resource managers. An appendix lists species that are increasing or decreasing at significant rates in various physiographic regions of North America.
Ornithology in Laboratory and Field
Author: Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0323138926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This new edition of Ornithology in Laboratory and Field continues to offer up-to-date coverage of the important aspects of modern ornithology. Beginning with an overview of ornithology today, Pettingill explores such topics as external and internal anatomy, physiology, ecology, flight, behavior, migration, life histories, and populations.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0323138926
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This new edition of Ornithology in Laboratory and Field continues to offer up-to-date coverage of the important aspects of modern ornithology. Beginning with an overview of ornithology today, Pettingill explores such topics as external and internal anatomy, physiology, ecology, flight, behavior, migration, life histories, and populations.
The Ecology of Rubble Structures of the South Atlantic Bight
Author: Mark E Hay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Biological Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands
Author: John C. Dyes
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292758987
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Every year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds—human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats. John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on the Texas Coast, and, in Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands, he presents a year in the birds' life through fine photographs and an evocative and informative text. In a month-by-month account, he follows the annual rituals and daily dramas of courtship, mating, and chick rearing among herons, egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, ibises, and other birds that migrate and gather in colonies ranging from half a dozen birds to tens of thousands.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292758987
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Every year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds—human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats. John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on the Texas Coast, and, in Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands, he presents a year in the birds' life through fine photographs and an evocative and informative text. In a month-by-month account, he follows the annual rituals and daily dramas of courtship, mating, and chick rearing among herons, egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, ibises, and other birds that migrate and gather in colonies ranging from half a dozen birds to tens of thousands.
Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America
Author: Klaus Malling Olsen
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135779
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
This eagerly awaited guide offers the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the gulls of Europe, Asia and North America. A total of 43 species is treated, and every species is described in considerable detail, with a full description of each plumage and racial variation. Gulls are intelligent, versatile, opportunistic, and ecological generalists. As such, they exploit a variety of habitats, both coastal and inland, take a wide range of food, and are often extremely abundant. They are also great wanderers, with several American species regularly appearing in Western Europe and vice versa. As well as identification criteria, this book includes an up-to-date assessment of the range and status of every species, together with information on patterns of vagrancy. This important guide is published at a critical time in the development of dull taxonomy. The large, white-headed forms occurring in the region comprise a superspecies complex, with the precise relationships between the various components still under considerable debate. A thorough illustrative and textual treatment of the group is much needed, and this book provided the most complete overview of the complex. The text is complemented not only by superb colour paintings by Hans Larrson, but also by a large selection of colour photographs, sourced from some of the finest bird photographers in the world. This is the essential reference to a fascinating and endlessly challenging group of birds.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135779
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
This eagerly awaited guide offers the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the gulls of Europe, Asia and North America. A total of 43 species is treated, and every species is described in considerable detail, with a full description of each plumage and racial variation. Gulls are intelligent, versatile, opportunistic, and ecological generalists. As such, they exploit a variety of habitats, both coastal and inland, take a wide range of food, and are often extremely abundant. They are also great wanderers, with several American species regularly appearing in Western Europe and vice versa. As well as identification criteria, this book includes an up-to-date assessment of the range and status of every species, together with information on patterns of vagrancy. This important guide is published at a critical time in the development of dull taxonomy. The large, white-headed forms occurring in the region comprise a superspecies complex, with the precise relationships between the various components still under considerable debate. A thorough illustrative and textual treatment of the group is much needed, and this book provided the most complete overview of the complex. The text is complemented not only by superb colour paintings by Hans Larrson, but also by a large selection of colour photographs, sourced from some of the finest bird photographers in the world. This is the essential reference to a fascinating and endlessly challenging group of birds.