An illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nestsBirds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature.
The world's parrots in one convenient field guideFrom the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world-and among the most endangered.
A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birdsBird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks.
How birds have evolved and adapted to survive winterBirds in Winter is the first book devoted to the ecology and behavior of birds during this most challenging season.
Birds of Prey of the East and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the West, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published.
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West is the first fully illustrated field guide to all 348 species of dragonflies and damselflies in western North America.
An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman take the reader on an unforgettable journey through the natural and cultural wonders of the world's grandest island.
En esta obra, de investigacion y observacion de aves en la Universidad de La Salle, se destacan las diferentes especies avistadas en la sede norte de la institucion; se analizan cuarenta y cinco especies, entre ellas, rapaces, migratorias, el colibri abeja (Chaetocercus mulsant), que es una de las aves mas pequenas del mundo; asi como nativas y endemicas, entre otras.
'A tour-de-force survey of how birds live their lives - with all the drama, surprise, humour, sadness and amazement of any human soap-opera' - Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World'Utterly fascinating .
John James Audubon no fue la primera persona en intentar pintar y describir todas las aves de América (Alexander Wilson tiene esa distinción), pero durante medio siglo fue el principal artista de la fauna en su país.
Mit dem Happy Huhn Küken-Buch schließt sich eine Lücke in der deutschen Fachliteratur, die bisher hauptsächlich Ratgeber rund um die "Kunstbrut" hervorgebracht hat.
Für Fans der YouTube-Serie und alle anderen Hühner-Liebhaber, die vom sympathischen Geflügel-Profi auf unterhaltsame Art lernen wollen, wie die eigenen Hühner "happy" werden und bleiben.
Schon in den Jugendjahren faszinierten den Autoren und Fotografen Hugo Hufschmid die englischen Naturforscher Charles Darwin und Alfred Russel Wallace, aber auch die beiden Basler Prof.
David Rothenberg hat Musik mit Walen, Insekten, mit Wasser und Wind gemacht: Den perfekten Sound haben ihm dann aber die Berliner Nachtigallen geliefert, die dort imWettkampf mit dem Stadtlärm über sich hinauswachsen.
Delfinabenteuer ab 12: In Band 2 der spannenden DelfinTeam-Reihe "Im Sog des Bermudadreiecks" riskiert Sandy mit ihren Freunden alles, um einen weiteren gefährlichen Unterwasser-Auftrag zu lösen.
'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea.
The sixth instalment of the popular Birder Murder series A trail of a murder leads Domenic Jejeune across a vast continent Newly estranged from his girlfriend, Lindy Hey, Inspector Domenic Jejeune returns to Southern Ontario, where he receives news that his brother, Damian, has gone missing in Wood Buffalo National Park while conducting research on Whooping Cranes.
At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.
THE BESTSELLING BIRDWATCHING CLASSIC - 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION'A delightful ode to the wild world outside the kitchen window - leaves you with the warm feeling that a shared love conquers all' The Daily TelegraphLook out the window.
A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature's most perfect and mysterious creaturesthe hawkfrom the New York Times bestselling author of the ';astoundingly beautiful' (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus.
Finally backyard farmers who want to keep a few hens for eggs have a bible that's attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table, and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim.
