Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Parasitic Birds and Their Hosts: Studies in Coevolution
de Robinson Rothstein(Ed. OUP USA) Isbn : 0195099761
213.76 €
This book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of parasitic birds and their hosts. Although the phenomenon has attracted the interest of naturalists and evolutionists since Darwin, only recently have researchers applied modern evolutionary theory and experimental methods to study the various adaptations related to brood parasitism. The work in this field is accelerating rapidly, and this volume collects work from the individuals and research groups around the world who have been...

Puerto Rico's Birds in Photographs
de Mark W. Oberle(Ed. Edit Humanitas) Isbn : 0965010414
28.46 €
This book is the first to illustrate with color photographs all Puerto Rico's breeding birds and common migrants. Over 300 color photos of 181 species of Puerto Rican birds appear in this publication. The English-language text is designed for tourists, students, teachers, and anyone who wants to understand Puerto Rico's natural heritage by learning about its fascinating birds. The species' life histories are written in a non-technical style for the general reader, and include important lessons for conservation of our natural resources. Most common birds of the Virgin Islands and northern Lesser Antilles are also illustrated. The book comes with a CD-ROM with detailed Spanish and English life history accounts and bibliography for 350 species, plus audio clips and over 1,250 photos. The CD-R...

The Gyrfalcon
de Eugene Potapov, Richard Sale(Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300107781
49.4 €
This book is the first monograph on one of the most beautiful and admired birds in the world. The Gyrfalcon is the world's largest and most powerful falcon - a truly awe-inspiring bird which inhabits the ferociously inhospitable Arctic taiga, from Greenland and Iceland right across Siberia and northern Canada. Its plumage varies from a dark mottled grey to pure white - the white birds in particular are coveted by birders and falconers. Like other titles in the series, it covers all aspects of the species' biology, taxonomy, distribution, status and historical associations with mankind. The result is an exhaustively researched and enthrallingly readable biography of a spectacular bird, illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings. ""a good read, presenting much previously inacc...

The Gyrfalcon
de Eugene Potapov, Richard Sale(Ed. Poyser) Isbn : 0713665637
59.06 €
This book is the first monograph on one of the most beautiful and admired birds in the world. The Gyrfalcon is the world's largest and most powerful falcon - a truly awe-inspiring bird which inhabits the ferociously inhospitable Arctic taiga, from Greenland and Iceland right across Siberia and northern Canada. Its plumage varies from a dark mottled grey to pure white - the white birds in particular are coveted by birders and falconers. Like other titles in the series, it covers all aspects of the species' biology, taxonomy, distribution, status and historical associations with mankind. The result is an exhaustively researched and enthrallingly readable biography of a spectacular bird, illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings. ""a good read, presenting much previously inacc...

Pigeons Doves
de David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes(Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300078862
71.26 €
This book is the first full-color illustrated guide to the field identification of the pigeons and doves of the world. The authors incorporate much recent information about this large family of birds that includes specialist frugivores, seed-eaters, brightly colored tropical species, gregarious migratory species, shy ground-dwellers, tree inhabiters, and more.

Birds of New Guinea
de Bruce Beehler, Dale A. Zimmerman, Thane K. Pratt(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691023948
46.01 €
This book is the first definitive ornithological field guide to New Guinea, the world's second largest island and one of the richest tropical environments in the Old World. Because of its isolation, New Guinea's biota includes spectacular radiations of unusual plants and animals (of which the birds of paradise are perhaps best known). The region has long attracted naturalists, ecologists, and anthropologists. This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region,...

Birds of New Guinea
de Bruce Beehler, Dale A. Zimmerman, Thane K. Pratt(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691083851
82.69 €
This book is the first definitive ornithological field guide to New Guinea, the world's second largest island and one of the richest tropical environments in the Old World. Because of its isolation, New Guinea's biota includes spectacular radiations of unusual plants and animals (of which the birds of paradise are perhaps best known). The region has long attracted naturalists, ecologists, and anthropologists. This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region,...

Birds of New Guinea 2e
de Thane K. Pratt, Szabolcs Kókay(Ed. Princeton University Press) Isbn : 0691095639
41.28 €
This book is the first definitive ornithological field guide to New Guinea, the world's second largest island and one of the richest tropical environments in the Old World. Because of its isolation, New Guinea's biota includes spectacular radiations of unusual plants and animals (of which the birds of paradise are perhaps best known). The region has long attracted naturalists, ecologists, and anthropologists. This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region,...

Munias and Mannikins
de Robin Restall(Ed. Yale University Press) Isbn : 0300071094
76 €
This book is the definitive guide to munias and mannikins, a genus of seed-eating songbirds found in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. Restall, the world`s leading authority on the 41 species of these birds, provides a comprehensive natural history of each species, color illustrations of every known plumage, and numerous line drawings.

Munias and Mannikins
de Robin L. Restall(Ed. Pica Press) Isbn : 1873403518
59.06 €
This book is the definitive guide to munias and mannikins, a genus of seed-eating songbirds found in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. Restall, the world`s leading authority on the 41 species of these birds, provides a comprehensive natural history of each species, color illustrations of every known plumage, and numerous line drawings.