Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Kestrel
Author: Andrew VillagePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408138190
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Surprisingly, for one of Europe's commoner birds of prey, relatively little is known about some aspects of the Kestrel's behaviour and associations. Dr Village's book leaves us far better informed and is an inviting combination of readability and scholarship that reflects his dedication and enthusiasm for Falco tinnunculus. The author studied the Kestrel for several years in Scottish hill country and sheepwalk, then in two agricultural areas of eastern England, but his book also includes much valuable observation and data from Europe and elsewhere. Its twenty-one chapters cover all aspects of the Kestrel's life cycle, with special emphasis on breeding performance, population densities and turnover, and age and sex ratios. A section of over seventy tables of supporting data concludes the book. Keith Brockie has contributed over 30 illustrations which admirably enhance the pages.
Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with notes and intr. by R.F. Charles
Author: Richard Fletcher CharlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Kestrel's Nest and Other Verses
Author: Alfred Cochrane“The” Athenaeum
Author: The Ancestral Kestrel
Author: David Michael BirdPublisher:
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Category : American kestrel
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Emu
Author: Gyrfalcon Poems
Author: Colin SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This is Colin Simms' third Shearsman collection. A noted naturalist and expert on birds of prey, he collects here his poems on the subject of gyrfalcons, magnificent raptor birds that he has studied in Britain, North America, Iceland and Siberia. The book also contains field drawings of the birds.
Raptors in Human Landscapes
Author: David M. BirdPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080547540
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This book is a collection of papers highlighting ways in which Raptors have successfully adapted to man-made landscapes and structures. The coverage of Raptors in Human Landscapes is broad, ranging from the impact of human activity on country-wide scales to the particular conditions associated with urban, cultivated, and industrial landscapes, as well as to the various schemes specifically directed towards the provision of artificial nest sites and platforms. The cases described hail from a wide geographic range including North and South America, Europe, Africa and elsewhere, and from a broad spectrum of species groups such as the falcons, accipiters, eagles, kites, and many others.This is a book of immense value not only to ornithologists and conservation biologists, but also to engineers and managers involved in all kinds of building and environmental work in cities, power and water works, agriculture, and forestry. - Serves as a good introduction to all aspects of the subject - Focuses on successful adaptations of Raptors to environmental change