Author : David Ward Winkler
Publisher :
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9788494189203
This volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. It distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group, this volume is the best single-volume entry to avian diversity available.
Author : Julie Murray
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1680796178
Kids will love reading all about penguins and strengthening their reading skills. Simple text explaining what penguins look like, where they live, and what they like to eat will be alongside colorful full-bleed images. This title is complete with bolded glossary words, a picture glossary, and a More Kinds of Penguins page, which will show a few different penguin species. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
Author : Lester Short
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198546665
This book covers in unmatched detail the life history, relationships, biology, and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. These number 133 species, found in tropical regions around the world. The toucans are especially well-known because of their dramatic bills and their association with the Amazon rainforest. The colour plates, painted by well- known US artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced.
Author : H. Douglas Pratt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 019854653X
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Author : D.T. Holyoak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198549871
"All the species are illustrated in 23 colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock. He has also contributed text drawings that illustrate behaviour and other features."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Josep del Hoyo
Publisher :
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9788416728374
Author : Pete Dunne
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0358164044
Focusing on families and their shared traits makes bird identification easier than ever. This guide takes readers beyond merely identifying birds to understanding them. Many birders can tell the difference between a White-eyed and Bell’s Vireo but cannot begin to describe a vireo and what distinguishes members of this family from warblers or flycatchers. The “species by species” approach makes it difficult to appreciate birds for what they are: members of well-organized groupings united by common traits. Putting the focus on families, and their shared characteristics, makes bird identification easier and more meaningful. More than 150 color photos illustrate the 81 bird families of the United States and Canada.
Author : Clifford B. Frith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 1998-07-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198548539
Birds of paradise have long played a central part in human mythologies and captured the imagination of collectors, scientists, and naturalists - and fashion designers. Birds of Paradise provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, and scientifically accurate overview of the behaviour, biology, ecology, biogeography, and history of the most ornate and dramatic group of birds on earth. The book is illustrated by 12 superb, specially commissioned colour plates including all 42 species of birds of paradise, original line drawings of many behaviours never before recorded, maps, graphs, sonograms, and photographs. This stunning book will delight ornithologists and naturalists the world over.
Author : S. J. J. F. Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198549963
The book contains a complete description of the natural history and biology of the Ratites and Tinamous - the group of flightless birds that includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis. Each species is treated in turn, with seven general introductory chapters and full colour illustrations of all 55 species, as well as over 50 line drawings. The author has spent 25 years research on the ratites and has drawn together the extensive and often inaccessible literature on the groups.
Author : Jonathan Elphick
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2018-06
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9780565093785
What's the difference between a swallow and a swift? How many species of ducks, penguins, owls or thrushes are there? Which is the rarest parrot or the most endangered hummingbird? What do toucans eat? Discover all the key facts about the world's orders and families of birds with this ultimate handbook. Expert ornithologist Jonathan Elphick provides a comprehensive survey of every one of the 36 orders and 234 families of birds, revealing their remarkable diversity, appearance, behaviour and lifestyle. With clear, lively text, informative fact boxes that include the latest research and data, and special photography from award-winning wildlife photographers such as David Tipling, The Handbook of Bird Families belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in birds.
