Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

The Prairie Falcon
de Stanley H Anderson(Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292704739
30.66 €
Skillful hunters beautiful in flight, Prairie Falcons inhabit the rocky cliffs of the American West. These raptors range from southern Canada and northern North Dakota to Baja California, Arizona, New Mexico, western and northern Texas, and southeastern Coahuila, Mexico. This is the first book for a wide audience devoted exclusively to the Prairie Falcon. Stanley Anderson and John Squires cover all aspects of the falcon's life history from mating and rearing young to hunting behaviors and the yearly migration cycle. They provide complete descriptive characteristics for identifying Prairie Falcons and also compare them to other raptors, especially the closely related Peregrine Falcon. In addition, the authors recount the long association of falcons with people, which may extend back as far ...

The Prairie Falcon
de Stanley A. Anderson(Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292704747
16.1 €
Skillful hunters beautiful in flight, Prairie Falcons inhabit the rocky cliffs of the American West. These raptors range from southern Canada and northern North Dakota to Baja California, Arizona, New Mexico, western and northern Texas, and southeastern Coahuila, Mexico. This is the first book for a wide audience devoted exclusively to the Prairie Falcon. Stanley Anderson and John Squires cover all aspects of the falcon's life history from mating and rearing young to hunting behaviors and the yearly migration cycle. They provide complete descriptive characteristics for identifying Prairie Falcons and also compare them to other raptors, especially the closely related Peregrine Falcon. In addition, the authors recount the long association of falcons with people, which may extend back as far ...

Binary Stars: Selected Topics on Observations and Physical Processes : Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School Xii, Organized by the European Astrophysics doctoral
de M. J. Arevalo(Ed. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH Co. K) Isbn : 3540412565
76.53 €
Six lectures give both a readable introduction and an up to date review of nearly all aspects of current research into binary stars, including the range from common binaries to more exotic systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars and blackholes.

Simple Birdhouses and Feeders of Wood
de Ronald D. Tarjany(Ed. Tarjany Publications) Isbn : 0967466830
10.4 €
Six birdhouses, six bird feeders and a bird water platform are the content of this how-to projects book. The fascinating projects are simple to build with practical designs. No gingerbread on these designs, just the bare essentials. Written for all levels of woodworkers, this book contains easy-to-follow instructions, photos, drawings and materials lists. In addition to the projects, the author, Ronald D Tarjany shows how to control unwanted predators. Another chapter is devoted to mounting the birdhouses or feeders and to constructing a mounting pole. Birdhouse size specifications for the different types of birds is also covered

Title: The Birds of Israel Birdwatchs 1996 Bird Book of t
de Hadoram Shirihai(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0126402558
417.64 €
Situated on one of the major Palearctic-African migration routes, Israel is an area of tremendous interest to ornithologists. This book is the most complete, up-to-date reference on bird distribution in, and migration through, Israel, compiled by a foremost authority. The book especially distinguishes those subspecies found in Israel, and includes hundreds of maps and diagrams detailing seasonal occurrence. The addition of hundreds of color photographs ensures that this book will become the most...

A Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and Singapore
de Allen Jeyarajasingam, Alan Pearson(Ed. Oxford University Press) Isbn : 0198549628
41.35 €
Singapore and West Malaysia are home to a stunning variety of birds. This book, written both for ornithologists and bird watchers at all levels, describes each of the 640 species of birds known to occur there and includes newly commissioned full-color illustrations for each species and its major plumage variations.

A Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and Singapore
de Allen Jeyarajasingam, Alan Pearson(Ed. Oxford University Press) Isbn : 0198549636
64.97 €
Singapore and West Malaysia are home to a stunning variety of birds. This book, written both for ornithologists and bird watchers at all levels, describes each of the 640 species of birds known to occur there and includes newly commissioned full-color illustrations for each species and its major plumage variations.

The Parrot's Lament: And Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
de Eugene Linden(Ed. Thorndike Press) Isbn : 0783890311
26.56 €
Since the 1970s, Linden (Apes, Men and Language) has argued that many animals possess humanlike intelligence. Here, he drives that point home by presenting more than 100 anecdotes "about attempts by animals to deceive or manipulate their keepers or each other, stories about games, stories of understanding and trust across the vast gulf that separates different species, stories of animal heroism, and, especially... stories about escape." Linden's sources include vets, trainers, zookeepers, field biologists and researchers. Most of the accounts involve animals that live in complex and fluid social groupsAapes, elephants, parrots, dolphinsAand that exhibit a wide range of humanlike behaviors, from trust and cooperation to deception and greed. Prominently featured are orangutansAvirtuoso escap...

My Way to Ornithology
de Olin Sewall Pettingill(Ed. University of Oklahoma Press) Isbn : 0806124091
28.46 €
Since the 1930s, Pettingill has been a ranking ornithologist and naturalist, a respected author of various bird finding guides, a lecturer, and professor. Most of his early career was in New England where much of the action of this charming autobiography takes place. As a pioneering professional naturalist long before environmentalism became fashionable, his life story is an important one. His book also captures the more general qualities of family, rural, and academic life in New England and New York during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition, Pettingill includes engaging descriptions of a Hudson Bay expedition in 1931 and an adventurous honeymoon on a remote Virginia island in 1933 where he and his bride had a near-fatal brush with death at the hands of a great coastal storm. Illustrated by...

A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan
de Sidney Dillon Ripley(Ed. OUP India) Isbn : 0195621646
21.58 €
Since its original publication in 1961, the Synopsis has become the standard reference on the taxonomy of Indian avifauna and was the basis for Ali and Ripley's classic 10-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. This second edition correlates and summarizes all current advances in our knowledge of the systematics, ecology, and distribution of Indian birds. The sequence of orders, families, etc., follows current international practice.