Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Blue Sky Bluebird
de Rick Chrustowski(Ed. Henry Holt Company) Isbn : 0805071040
16.1 €
One spring day when the ground is a carpet of green, a pair of bluebirds arrives at their summer home. Inside their nest box the female weaves layers of coarse grass into a circle. Then she presses her body into the middle to make a cup.A season in the life of a bluebird family In a cozy nest of grass a female bluebird lays her eggs, blue as the summer sky. When they hatch, there are four tiny chicks to feed. From morning to night, the parent birds hunt for tasty insects to give to their hungry...

Handbook of the Birds of the World
de Robert Bateman(Ed. Lynx Edicions) Isbn : 8487334202
212 €
One only has to open this book to see the extremely high standards the publishers have set themselves. At first, I found myself not working through the book in any order, merely turning over page after page wondering where I would have to go to see the species photographed. The photographs are of amazing quality and introduce the reader (certainly this one) not only to new species but also to new families. I was stunned to see the photograph of South Africa's Blue Cranes and made a note to catch up with this species sometime in the future. Perhaps the accompanying text could have included the name of the species in bold since they act more as an additional text rather than as labels for the photographs. Rather than acting as an identification guide, HBW attempts to illustrate and describe ...

Songbird Journeys: The Four Seasons in the Lives of Migratory Birds
de Miyoko Chu(Ed. Walker Company) Isbn : 0802714684
21.86 €
One of the reasons we continue to destroy the natural world is that most of us still take its creatures and their habitats largely for granted. Birds, for instance, just somehow reappear each spring, cheerful and full of song as always. Except they don't, at least not always. Half a century ago, Rachel Carson foresaw a future with silent springs, and every year more research attests to our seemingly implacable march toward that ominous prospect.Of course we all know this, at least in the abstract. What we mostly don't know is the incredible journey that brings our diminishing contingent of songbirds back to settle into their accustomed backyard haunts. What those pilgrimages entail -- where our familiar avian neighbors go for six months of the year -- is the subject of Miyoko Chu's Songbir...

Vanishing Songbirds: The Sixth Order : Wood Warblers and Other Passerine Birds
de Eliot Porter(Ed. Bulfinch Press,U.S.) Isbn : 0821222252
35.62 €
One of the premier photographers of our time, Porter (1901-90) consorted with Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams and was a pioneer in nature photography. This book is a selection of 160 stop-action color photographs of American songbirds at their nests. Just finding these nests, much less securing arresting photographs of their occupants in action, is a major accomplishment. Owing to tropical deforestation and habitat destruction in North America, many of these species, especially the so-called neotropical migrants, are in alarming decline. Amazing as these photographs are, the use of flash and harsh light does give many of them a frozen, dioramalike quality, as if they were taken at night. The text, mostly annotations of the photos by Kenn Kaufman, an outstanding contemporary ornithologist,...

Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World
de Reed Bowman, Roarke Donnelly, John M. Marzluff(Ed. Springer) Isbn : 0792374584
147.62 €
One of the most striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-cover as we settle a region. Much of our ecological understanding about this process comes from studies of birds, yet the existing literature is scattered, mostly decades old, and rarely synthesized or standardized. The twenty-seven contributions authored by leaders in the fields of avian and urban ecology present a unique summary of current research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to exurban, rural to urban. Ecologists, land managers, wildlife managers, evolutionary ecologists, urban planners, landscape architects, and conservation biologists will find our information useful because we address the conservation and evolutionary implications of urban life from an ecological and pla...

Songbirds and Familiar Backyard Birds/Western Region
de Richard K. Walton, Wayne R. Petersen, National Audubon Society(Ed. Alfred A. Knopf) Isbn : 067974925X
8.55 €
One of the many pleasures of birding involves not only watching but listening-to the trill of a warbler, the sad coo of the Mourning Dove, or the clear warble of the House Finch. Even in urban areas, a surprising variety of songbirds (and other fascinating species) may be encountered by a watchful observer. This exceptionally compact guide will help you identify many western songbirds and other familiar backyard birds and learn more about their habits. In addition, you'll find tips on birding technique, identification skills, and attracting birds, as well as notes on bird conservation and more. The region covered extends roughly from the Pacific Ocean east to the Great Plains. The companion volume to eastern birds covers species east of this.

Common Birds of East Africa
de David Hosking, Martin Withers(Ed. Collins) Isbn : 0002200341
15.34 €
One of the Collins Safari Guides series, this handy pocket volume covers 360 speciesall the common wild birds found in East Africa and includes hints on watching and photographing the birds. Authors Hosking and Withers are wildlife experts who have been leading safaris in East Africa for the past 20 years. Illustrated with more than 350 color photographs.

A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies
de Herbert A. Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando H. Garrido, Allan Keith, Jan(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691087369
72.06 €
One of the best of the recent publications finally eclipsing the old field guide . . . that in its various forms held sway for more than fifty years. . . . The illustrations . . . are exceptionally beautiful.

The Birds of Winter
de Kitt Harrison(Ed. Random House) Isbn : 0394581962
18.96 €
One of the attractions of bird-watching is that it can be a year-round pursuit even in regions of severe cold and deep snow. Covering North American birds "that can winter north of 40 degrees north latitude, except waterfowl and sea birds," this well-illustrated guide includes brief descriptions with data on winter behavior and food. Bird feeding, winter photography, and the adaptations that enable birds to survive harsh winters are briefly surveyed. A directory of winter birding "hot spots" is appended, but some listings--an entire national park or forest--are too general to be truly helpful. Though a pleasant book that will be used in public libraries in the regions it covers, this does not contain enough new material to be an essential purchase.- Paul B. Cors, Univ. of Wyoming Lib., Lar...

Wading and Shore Birds
de Roger S. Everett(Ed. Schiffer Publishing Ltd) Isbn : 0887401325
9.49 €
One of England's foremost bird photographers presents here for the first time a study of wading and shore birds, with over a hundred full-color pictures. The pictures of these beautiful feathered creatures, favorites of birders and wood carvers alike will delight the eye while providing an important resource for naturalists, artists, carvers and taxidermists. Over 38 varieties of shore and wading birds are shown, most in several poses and from different perspectives. Along with the photographs, Roger Everett presents his observations about the birds and tips on viewing the yourself. Yet the key ingredient in his book is his naturally dynamic photography. Other of his photographs have long been seen on the pages of exclusive nature magazines and on the walls of collectors. Roger Everett's p...