A Treatise on British Song-birds
Author : Patrick Syme
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Birds
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Author : Patrick Syme
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Birds
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Author : Patrick SYME
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1823
Category :
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Author : Joseph Nash
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : Neville Wood
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Birds
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Author : United States National Museum
Publisher :
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1924
Category :
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Author : Charles Ira Bushnell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385326842
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : Charles Ira Bushnell
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1883
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691239940
From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on a dazzling epic journey through our mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to the Renaissance fascination with woodpecker anatomy—and from the Victorian obsession with egg collecting to today’s fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Spanning continents and millennia, Birds and Us chronicles the beginnings of a written history of birds in ancient Greece and Rome, the obsession with falconry in the Middle Ages, and the development of ornithological science. Moving to the twentieth century, the book tells the story of the emergence of birdwatching and the field study of birds, and how they triggered an extraordinary flowering of knowledge and empathy for birds, eventually leading to today’s massive worldwide interest in birds—and the realization of the urgent need to save them. Weaving in stories from Birkhead’s life as scientist, including far-flung expeditions to wondrous Neolithic caves in Spain and the bustling guillemot colonies of the Faroe Islands, this rich and fascinating book is an unforgettable account of how birds have shaped us, and how we have shaped them.
Author : Neville Wood
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Ornithology
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