Author: Francis Orpen MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds
Author: Francis Orpen MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs
Author: Henry Leonard MeyerThe Most Perfect Thing
Author: Tim BirkheadPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632863715
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A bird's egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule--an external womb--and one of natural selection's most wonderful creations. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016.One of Forbes' Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016. Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm stored from copulation that took place days or weeks earlier. Within a matter of hours, the fragile yolk is surrounded by albumen and the whole is gradually encased within a turquoise jewel of a shell. Soon the fully formed egg is expelled onto a rocky ledge, where it will be incubated for four weeks before a chick emerges and the life cycle begins again. THE MOST PERFECT THING is about how eggs in general are made, fertilized, developed, and hatched. Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.
Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs. [With Descriptive Text.]
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Author: H. L. MeyerColoured Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds
Author: William Chapman HewitsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Birds Of The British Isles And Their Eggs
Author: Thomas Alfred CowardPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781018708652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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The Eggs of British Birds Displayed in a Series of Engravings. ... With Descriptions of British Birds. The Illustrations by Dickes
Author: C. JENNINGSBritish Birds' Eggs and Nests
Author: John Christopher AtkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs
Author: H. L. MeyerBritish Birds with Their Nests and Eggs
Author: Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner) ButlerPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781172255900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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