Author: Ian Newton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007527993
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation – food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity.
Bird Populations (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 124)
Author: Ian Newton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007527993
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation – food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007527993
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation – food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity.
Uplands and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Author: Ian Newton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008298513
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 971
Book Description
Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008298513
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 971
Book Description
Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds.
Gulls (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 139)
Author: Professor John C. Coulson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008201447
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The gull is a familiar sight by the seaside, and one of the most recognisable bird species, but most people know surprisingly little about the lives and habits of these seafaring birds. John C. Coulson remedies this with a comprehensive overview of the gull.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008201447
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The gull is a familiar sight by the seaside, and one of the most recognisable bird species, but most people know surprisingly little about the lives and habits of these seafaring birds. John C. Coulson remedies this with a comprehensive overview of the gull.
Peak District (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Author: Penny Anderson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008257388
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008257388
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Peak District, Britain’s first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year.
Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain
Author: Mary Colwell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008354774
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
‘A must read for all wildlife lovers’ Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites – Britain and Ireland’s predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider them to our competition, even our enemies.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008354774
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
‘A must read for all wildlife lovers’ Dominic Dyer Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites – Britain and Ireland’s predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider them to our competition, even our enemies.
Irish Birds
Author: David Cabot
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008412723
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008412723
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
An easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland
Ponds, Pools and Puddles (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Author: Jeremy Biggs
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008453233
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape – there are at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK – and they are also important wildlife habitats. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of these freshwater habitats.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008453233
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape – there are at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK – and they are also important wildlife habitats. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of these freshwater habitats.
Finches (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 55)
Author: Ian Newton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007406444
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
This illustrated survey of finch behaviour is a thorough, non-technical account of the habits of these birds throughout the world.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007406444
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
This illustrated survey of finch behaviour is a thorough, non-technical account of the habits of these birds throughout the world.
The Fragile Earth
Author: David Remnick
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063017563
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election A collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben’s seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063017563
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election A collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben’s seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
In Search of One Last Song
Author: Patrick Galbraith
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008420505
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Wonderful and enriching' Adam Nicolson 'The best book on conservation and the countryside I have read in years' John Lewis-Stempel 'A modern pastoral written with intelligence, wit and lyricism' Cal Flyn Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search of the people who are trying to save our birds, as well as confronting the enormity of what losing them would really mean. In this beautiful and thought-provoking blend of nature and travel writing Patrick Galbraith sets off across Britain on a journey that may well be his last chance to see some of our disappearing birds. Along the way, from Orkney to West Wales, from the wildest places to post-industrial towns, he meets a fascinatingly eclectic group of people who in very different ways are on the front line of conservation, tirelessly doing everything they can to save ten species teetering dangerously close to extinction. In Search of One Last Song mixes conservation, folklore, history, and art. Through talking to musicians, writers and poets, whose work is inspired by the birds he manages to see, such as the nightingale and the capercaillie, Galbraith creates a picture of the immense cultural void that would be left behind if these birds were gone. Among those he meets, there are feelings of great frustration. There are reed cutters and coppicers whose ancient crafts have long sustained vital habitats for some of our rarest birds but whose voices often go unheard. There are ornithologists who think their warnings are being ignored, and there are gamekeepers and animal rights activists who both feel they are on the right side of an increasingly ugly battle. Ultimately, it emerges that many of the birds Galbraith encounters could thrive, but it would require much better cooperation between those who are caught up in the struggle for their future. It also becomes clear that while losing birds like the turtle dove and black grouse will result in a paler country for all of us, for some of those who live alongside them, it will mean the bitterly painful end of so much more.
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008420505
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Wonderful and enriching' Adam Nicolson 'The best book on conservation and the countryside I have read in years' John Lewis-Stempel 'A modern pastoral written with intelligence, wit and lyricism' Cal Flyn Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search of the people who are trying to save our birds, as well as confronting the enormity of what losing them would really mean. In this beautiful and thought-provoking blend of nature and travel writing Patrick Galbraith sets off across Britain on a journey that may well be his last chance to see some of our disappearing birds. Along the way, from Orkney to West Wales, from the wildest places to post-industrial towns, he meets a fascinatingly eclectic group of people who in very different ways are on the front line of conservation, tirelessly doing everything they can to save ten species teetering dangerously close to extinction. In Search of One Last Song mixes conservation, folklore, history, and art. Through talking to musicians, writers and poets, whose work is inspired by the birds he manages to see, such as the nightingale and the capercaillie, Galbraith creates a picture of the immense cultural void that would be left behind if these birds were gone. Among those he meets, there are feelings of great frustration. There are reed cutters and coppicers whose ancient crafts have long sustained vital habitats for some of our rarest birds but whose voices often go unheard. There are ornithologists who think their warnings are being ignored, and there are gamekeepers and animal rights activists who both feel they are on the right side of an increasingly ugly battle. Ultimately, it emerges that many of the birds Galbraith encounters could thrive, but it would require much better cooperation between those who are caught up in the struggle for their future. It also becomes clear that while losing birds like the turtle dove and black grouse will result in a paler country for all of us, for some of those who live alongside them, it will mean the bitterly painful end of so much more.