Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey
de Dan O'brian(Ed. The Lyons Press) Isbn : 1558214569
27.11 €
O'Brien gives a good idea of what the ancient sport of falconry--rarely featured on those outdoors cable shows--involves. Basically, you take a wild raptor, train it to hunt game (usually grouse, ducks, and other birds) for you, and get a dog to sniff out prey for you and the bird to kill. There is also a particular lingo associated with falconry, and for the uninitiated, O'Brien provides a glossary. He sets his exposition against the backdrop of his fiftieth birthday, which he styles his equinox (hence the title), during a season spent with falcons and dogs on the South Dakota prairie. Besides falconry, he makes side trips to fish, hunt by other means, and separate, rather painfully, from his wife. Despite that slice of life, O'Brien keeps falcons pretty much at the center of things, so t...

Sasol Birds of Southern Africa
de Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, W.R. Tarboton(Ed. Struik Publishers) Isbn : 1868720330
23.61 €
Now its second edition, Sasol Birds has been hailed as the most comprehensive guide to bird identification in southern Africa. In its new edition it incorporates all the latest research and features three quick reference guides.

Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
de Candace Sherk Savage(Ed. Sierra Club Books) Isbn : 0871569566
20.02 €
Now in paperback ! Examines the lives and behaviors of the highly intelligent members of the crow family, corvids, and includes 61 dramatic images from the world's top nature photographers.

Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
de Candace Sherk Savage(Ed. Sierra Club Books) Isbn : 0871563797
23.76 €
Now in paperback ! Examines the lives and behaviors of the highly intelligent members of the crow family, corvids, and includes 61 dramatic images from the world's top nature photographers.

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
de National Geographic Society(Ed. National Geographic Books) Isbn : 0792268776
20.86 €
Now in its fourth edition, the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the ultimate birder's field guide. Sturdy, portable, and easy-to-use, it features the most complete information available on every bird species known to North America. This revised edition features 250 completely updated range maps, new plumage and species classification information, specially commissioned full-color illustrations, and a superb new index that allows birders in the field to...

Fishes: A Field and Laboratory Manual on Their Structure, Identification and Natural History
de Gregor Cailliet, Alfred Ebeling, Milton Love(Ed. Waveland Press) Isbn : 0881339083
19.9 €
Now available from Waveland Press, this comprehensive, geographically balanced manual offers readers complete hands-on coverage of morphology, identification, and classification, physiological adaptations, and natural history. The book's taxonomic and geographic coverage is impressively broad as well, applying to a variety of fishes and areas: jawless, cartilaginous, and bony, fresh- and saltwater, temperate and tropical, and inshore and offshore. Helpful discussions and explanations introduce the guidebook's collection of well-designed exercises, making the connections between principles and specific inquiries easier to formulate. This approach works to help readers transform memorized facts into concepts that stimulate further explorations.

Eagles 2004 Calendar
de (Ed. Willow Creek Press) Isbn : 1572236191
12.96 €
Nothing signifies the image of America and freedom more than the Bald Eagle. The Just Eagles 2005 Calendar features twelve full outstanding color photos of America's most loved and respected bird.

Birds of Prey Coloring Book
de John Green(Ed. Dover Publications Inc.) Isbn : 0486259897
5.39 €
Noted wildlife illustrator presents detailed accurate renderings of 42 species #8212 ; bald eagle, common black hawk, great horned owl, Andean condor, osprey, crested caracara, turkey vulture, peregrine falcon (on a dramatic double-page spread), many more. Informative captions.

Earth, Water, and Sky: A Naturalist's Stories and Sketches
de Paul A. Johnsgard(Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 029274059X
18.96 €
Not stories after all but brief, accessible essays, these instructive writings by ornithologist Johnsgard (a professor at the University of Nebraska) cover the lives, behaviors and habitats of many North American birds, from "The Tree Quail of Mexico" to "The Elusive Musk Duck." (Some first appeared in the magazine Natural History.) The intriguing lead essay describes the collective, synchronized mating dances of grouse, performed in arena-like spaces called "leks," which pose a Darwinian puzzle: why would sexual selection favor a system where males "perform the same displays in exactly the same ways?" Other essays cock an ear for quails' complex duets, distinguish and explain "the evolution of the train of the peacock" and "the even more wonderful ball-and-socket" tail designs of the Grea...

Earth, Water, and Sky: A Naturalist's Stories and Sketches
de Paul A. Johnsgard(Ed. University of Texas Press) Isbn : 0292740581
33.26 €
Not stories after all but brief, accessible essays, these instructive writings by ornithologist Johnsgard (a professor at the University of Nebraska) cover the lives, behaviors and habitats of many North American birds, from "The Tree Quail of Mexico" to "The Elusive Musk Duck." (Some first appeared in the magazine Natural History.) The intriguing lead essay describes the collective, synchronized mating dances of grouse, performed in arena-like spaces called "leks," which pose a Darwinian puzzle: why would sexual selection favor a system where males "perform the same displays in exactly the same ways?" Other essays cock an ear for quails' complex duets, distinguish and explain "the evolution of the train of the peacock" and "the even more wonderful ball-and-socket" tail designs of the Grea...