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The Puffin (Poyser Monographs) by Mike P. Harris,Sarah Wanless PDF

With its vibrant beak and quick, whirring flight, the Atlantic Puffin is the main recognisable and renowned of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend many of the 12 months at sea, yet for a couple of months of the 12 months the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of those birds can occasionally be obvious bobbing at the sea or flying in great wheels over the colony, bringing fish of their beaks again to the chicks.

Read e-book online Gertie's Birdies: A Children's Guide to Friends that Fly PDF

Allow your mind's eye fly along with your feathered neighbors. The e-book, Gertie’s Birdies, is either a visible satisfaction and a straightforward to learn aloud selection of verse to stimulate the minds of children and fix them to the wildlife. the writer slips a couple of effortless to appreciate ornithological proof into every one web page thereby educating and wonderful either reader and listener.

Download e-book for kindle: Where to Watch Birds in Britain by Simon Harrap,Nigel Redman

This publication covers some of the best birding websites in Britain. every one website is taken into account in phrases of 'Habitat', entry' and 'Birds', permitting birders of all degrees to plan profitable birding journeys at any place in Britain, and to maximize the possibilities of getting the simplest out of every website and every sector. The book comprises distinct pinch-and-zoomable maps of the bigger websites, plus common maps of the areas lined, and is illustrated with appealing line drawings.

Read e-book online Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America PDF

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Split the Lark” refers back to the “scarlet test” wherein scientists smash a chook so one can study extra approximately it. certainly, people have killed enormous quantities of hundreds of thousands of birds—for technological know-how, type, interest, and myriad different purposes. within the usa on my own, seven species of birds are actually extinct and one other ninety-three are endangered.