Current Ornithology: 16 by Val Nolan Jr.,Charles F. Thompson PDF

Download e-book for iPad: The Puffin (Poyser Monographs) by Mike P. Harris,Sarah Wanless

With its vibrant beak and quick, whirring flight, the Atlantic Puffin is the main recognisable and well known of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend lots 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 monstrous wheels over the colony, bringing fish of their beaks again to the chicks.

New PDF release: Gertie's Birdies: A Children's Guide to Friends that Fly

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

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

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

Download e-book for iPad: Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America by Jeff Karnicky

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Split the Lark” refers back to the “scarlet test” through which scientists damage a chook that allows you to study extra approximately it. certainly, people have killed hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of birds—for technological know-how, style, 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.