The Natural History Of Birds With Detailed Descriptions Of Their Appearance Characteristics And Behaviour

Author : Richard Lydekker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781528708449
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Birds - With Detailed Descriptions of Their Appearance, Characteristics and Behaviour written by Richard Lydekker and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special focus of this volume is ornithology: the classification of birds and their behaviour. The Harmsworth Natural History series was authored by prominent experts in natural history in the early 20th century. It surveys the living creatures of the world, at that time, and was the most comprehensive set of studies of its kind made available to the public. Richard Lydekker (1849 - 1915) was an award-winning naturalist, author and geologist; Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston, (1858 - 1927), was an explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, travelling extensively in Africa; and Professor Ainsworth-Davis (1861-1934) specialised in zoology, geology and biology. We are republishing this vintage work in a new modern edition, complete with reproductions of the detailed plates featured in the original version.

Author : Tony D. Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691211876
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Is a Bird? written by Tony D. Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large-format, beautifully illustrated look at the natural history of birds There are some 10,000 bird species in existence today, occupying every continent and virtually every habitat on Earth. The variety of bird species is truly astounding, from the tiny bee hummingbird to the large flightless ostrich, making birds one of the most diverse and successful animal groups on the planet. Taking you inside the extraordinary world of birds, What Is a Bird? explores all aspects of these remarkable creatures, providing an up-close look at their morphology, unique internal anatomy and physiology, fascinating and varied behavior, and ecology. It features hundreds of color illustrations and draws on a broad range of examples, from the familiar backyard sparrow to the most exotic birds of paradise. A must-have book for birders and armchair naturalists, What Is a Bird? is a celebration of the rich complexity of bird life. An absorbing and beautifully presented exploration of the natural history of birds Integrates physiological adaptations with ecology and behavior Features a wealth of color photographs and explanatory figures Uses scanning electron microscope imagery to provide a rare close-up view of structures not normally visible Provides insights into our complex relationship with birds, from our enduring fascination with them to the threats they face and the challenges of conservation

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 139842594X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bird Painting Between Art and Science written by Hugh Ridley and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why so many scientific handbooks on birds use paintings rather than photographs, or why the painters Killian Mullarney and Lars Johnson are such significant figures in ornithology? This book gives an account of the 500 years during which bird-painting reached such heights, and it traces the growth of scientific realism in this field. It shows how scientific understanding has shaped the art, and how artistic style has left its mark on the science. Birds cross frontiers unhindered, and the language of painting too knows no national barriers. This book explores the huge contribution of German painting to the international tradition. It looks at the work of great artists – Dürer and Rembrandt. It introduces the fascinating but neglected artists who made the landmark handbooks of the past. It pays tribute to those major figures of the last 150 years who brought the art to its perfection: Josef Wolf and Bruno Liljefors, and looks briefly at the competition with photography at the start of the twentieth century. It reveals the interlocking of art with the science of ornithology, as it was developed by figures such as Buffon and Darwin.

Author : Margaret I. Nicholas
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788131435
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Reference Sources and Services for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries written by Margaret I. Nicholas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists over 750 sources focusing on the reference needs of adults. The primary objective was to select quality reference tools which cover many different topics. Topics include general works, biography, philosophy, religion, language, literature, visual arts, applied sciences, sports and recreation, home life, social customs and education.

Author : Carel P. Van Schaik
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119118190
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Primate Origins of Human Nature written by Carel P. Van Schaik and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar books, it strives to define the human species relative to our living and extinct relatives, and thus highlights uniquely derived human features. The book features a truly multi-disciplinary, multi-theory, and comparative species approach to subjects not usually presented in textbooks focused on humans, such as the evolution of culture, life history, parenting, and social organization.

Author : Frederic Shoberl
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104316334
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Birds (1836) written by Frederic Shoberl and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Antonia Gransden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826439462
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England written by Antonia Gransden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the 16th century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble 14th-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add other than a few local references.

Author : Sarah Kelly McMenamin
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889746224
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hormones and Life History Strategies written by Sarah Kelly McMenamin and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298554
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Uncommon Birds of the Upper Midwest written by and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No bird is common, if we use “common” to mean ordinary. But birds that are seen more commonly than others can seem less noteworthy than species that are rarely glimpsed. In this gathering of essays and illustrations celebrating fifty of the most common birds of the Upper Midwest, illustrator Dana Gardner and writer Nancy Overcott encourage us to take a closer look at these familiar birds with renewed appreciation for their not-so-ordinary beauty and lifeways.Beginning with the garishly colored male and the more gently colored female wood duck, whose tree cavity nest serves as a launching pad for ducklings in the summer months, and ending on a bright yellow note with the American goldfinch, whose cheerful presence enlivens the midwestern landscape all year long, Overcott combines field observations drawn from her twenty-plus years of living and birding in Minnesota's Big Woods with anecdotes and data from other ornithologists to portray each species' life cycle, its vocalizations and appearance, and its habitat, food, and foraging methods as well as migration patterns and distribution. Infused with a dedication to conserving natural resources, her succinct yet personable prose forms an ideal complement to Gardner's watercolors as this renowned illustrator of avian life worldwide revisits the birds of his childhood. Together art and text ensure that the wild turkey, great blue heron, sharp-shinned hawk, barred owl, pileated woodpecker, house wren, ovenbird, field sparrow, rose-breasted grosbeak, red-winged blackbird, and forty other species of the Upper Midwest are never seen as common again.

Author : Reginald Heber Howe, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436622431
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds of Rhode Island (1899) written by Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.