Catégorie :: Livres anglais (6020 livres)

Gardens for Birds, Hummingbirds Butterflies: Landscaping to Welcome Wildlife to Your Yard
de Larry D. Harris(Ed. Creative Publishing International, US) Isbn : 1589230019
12.3 €
The spectacular color and motion of hummingbirds, songbirds, and butterflies adds a breathtaking dimension to any garden. This book will show readers how to design and maintain a landscape that will attract these«moving flowers»to the yard. Unlike similar books, which are mostly just catalogs of bird and butterfly species, this new entry to the Black Decker Outdoor Home series focuses on designing, planting, and caring for a landscape that will attract and sustain birds and butterflies....

Birds of Prey: Natural History and Conservation of North American Raptors
de Noel F. R. Snyder, Helen Snyder(Ed. Voyageur Pr) Isbn : 0896581314
23.57 €
The Snyders have interwoven their extensive field observations with the studies of other researchers in this survey of day-hunting raptors. Emphasizing ecological relationships and natural behavior, they present a dynamic picture of each bird in its habitat. The Snyders also address environmental survival threats along with possible solutions. Intentionally omitted technical data may send some to encyclopedic sources such as Paul A. Johnsgard's Hawks, Eagles, Falcons of North America ( LJ 10/15/90). With excellent color photographs, this is an appealing package for both browser and bird enthusiast.- Frank Reiser, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Tea-olive Bird Watching Society
de Augusta Trobaugh(Ed. Thorndike Press) Isbn : 0786278838
27.5 €
The sleepy North Georgia town of Tea-Olive gets a lovely windfall when one of its recently deceased citizens leaves her estate to the town library except for a portion of woods that she bequeaths to the remaining ladies in her circle of bird-watchers. Then a newly arrived judge, a Yankee no less, comes to town and buys the estate's house. Freely spending, he weaves a charming spell on the townsfolk. His web enmeshes one of the naive bird-watching ladies, and she runs off and marries him. The newcomer gets himself onto the town's library board, and it quickly becomes evident that his interest is not benignly bibliophilic. The balance of the bird-watching ladies leap to the defense of their sister, whom it appears the judge has trapped in an abusive marriage. These aging, genteel southern be...

The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society: A Novel
de Augusta Trobaugh(Ed. Dutton Books) Isbn : 0525948791
23.7 €
The sleepy North Georgia town of Tea-Olive gets a lovely windfall when one of its recently deceased citizens leaves her estate to the town library except for a portion of woods that she bequeaths to the remaining ladies in her circle of bird-watchers. Then a newly arrived judge, a Yankee no less, comes to town and buys the estate's house. Freely spending, he weaves a charming spell on the townsfolk. His web enmeshes one of the naive bird-watching ladies, and she runs off and marries him. The newcomer gets himself onto the town's library board, and it quickly becomes evident that his interest is not benignly bibliophilic. The balance of the bird-watching ladies leap to the defense of their sister, whom it appears the judge has trapped in an abusive marriage. These aging, genteel southern be...

Beyond Birdwatching: More Than There Is to Know About Birding
de Ben Sill, Cathryn P Sill(Ed. Peachtree Publishers) Isbn : 1561450847
9.46 €
The Sills turn their wicked wit on the entire world of birdwatching in a hysterical parody of your favorite birding magazine.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
de David Allen Sibley(Ed. Knopf) Isbn : 0679451218
18.96 €
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the new standard of excellence in bird identification guides, covering more than 810 North American birds in amazing detail. Now comes a new portable guide from David Sibley that every birder will want to carry into the field. Compact and comprehensive, this new guide features 703 bird species plus regional populations found west of the Rocky Mountains. Accounts include stunningly accurate illustrations #8212 ; more than 4,600 in total #8212 ; with...

The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds
de David Wentworth Lazaroff(Ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Pr) Isbn : 1886679002
4.7 €
The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds takes the reader into the sometimes-mysterious, always-fascinating world of North American hummingbirds. The text, which is supplemented by numerous sidebars and 29 full-color photographs, is written in an engaging, comprehensible manner. Topics covered in this book include: anatomical adaptations of hummingbirds, coevolution of hummingbirds and their flowers, convergent evolution of North American hummingbirds and North American hummingbird flowers, territorial and reproductive behavior, migration and distribution, the Desert Museum's hummingbird aviary, and attracting and enjoying wild hummingbirds.

The Birds of Africa
de Emil K. FRY, C. Hilary KEITH, Stuart URBAN(Ed. Academic Press) Isbn : 0121373029
106.95 €
The second volume in this series continues the high standards set by the first. The three editors have followed the vision of the late Leslie Brown and organized a team of internationally known experts to help them produce an up-to-date and comprehensive work. This volume covers all birds found in Africa, from gamebirds to pigeons. In order to do justice to the ever increasing volume of publications on African birds and the wealth of material collated by the contributors, and to fulfil the aim...

Gulls: A Guide to Identification
de Peter J Grant, P J Grant(Ed. Harrell Books) Isbn : 093113014X
35.62 €
The Second Edition of Peter Grant's guide has been extensively revised and has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species of gulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the USA have been added.The book now covers 31 species and has been increased in length from 280 to 352 pages. More than 280 new photographs have been added or substituted, bringing the total to 544, including 79 photographs for the eight North American additional species.The great increase in interest in...

Gulls: A Guide to Identification
de P.J. Grant(Ed. Poyser) Isbn : 0856610445
35.43 €
The Second Edition of Peter Grant's guide has been extensively revised and has been reset throughout. Importantly, a further eight species of gulls occurring on the west coasts of Canada and the USA have been added.The book now covers 31 species and has been increased in length from 280 to 352 pages. More than 280 new photographs have been added or substituted, bringing the total to 544, including 79 photographs for the eight North American additional species.The great increase in interest in gull identification since the publication of the first edition (and the author's series on that topic in British Birds) has helped bring much new information to light. As a result some revision was made to almost every text page and most of the identification drawings were improved in some way ; in ad...