A Penguin in a Sparrow's Nest
Author: FRANK. MELLING
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780952798712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: FRANK. MELLING
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Published: 2015-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780952798712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Casey McFarland
Publisher: Peterson Field Guides
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 0544963385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive field guide to the nests and nesting behavior of North American birds Beyond being a simple reference book, the Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests is a practical, educational, and intimate doorway to our continent's bird life. The diversity of nests and nesting strategies of birds reflect the unique biology and evolution of these charismatic animals. Unlike any other book currently on the market, this guide comprehensively incorporates nest design, breeding behavior, and habitat preferences of North American birds to provide the reader with a highly functional field resource and an engaging perspective of this sensitive part of a bird's life cycle.
Author: Béatrice Fontanel
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of penguins, particularly the king penguin.
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 076136207X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces the physical characteristics that all birds share and discusses some of the differences from size, ability to fly, and where they live.
Author: Mark Douglas Norman
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1921167300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some are shy, some are curious and some are grumpy enough to give you a slap as you walk by, but all penguins are amazing.
Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0060283955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explaining the lives of penguins.
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Publisher: My First Book of
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781406394184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christine Ann Ribic
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-05-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0520273133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Until recently, inferring identities of predators and monitoring cryptic behaviors at the nest was time-consuming, often with anecdotal results. No more. Video nest surveillance, so aptly revealed in this volume, has ushered in a new era of data collection that allows field workers to link environmental factors with such aspects as the temporal dynamics of predator communities in relation to what the birds are doing at their nests, thus removing much of the guesswork of earlier studies.”--Spencer G. Sealy, University of Manitoba "Video Surveillance of Nesting Birds shatters earlier beliefs about how birds interact with nest predators. Much of what we thought we knew about nesting and its hazards was flat-out wrong, as authors in this book discovered by using modern technology in the field. As simple as we would like our models of animal behavior to be, this book shows that reality is far more complex and nuanced."--Douglas H. Johnson, University of Minnesota
Author: Susan Ogilvy
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0241481724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exquisitely illustrated, one-of-a-kind celebration of the hidden beauty of nature and the ingenuity of birds Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest - a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact life size. This was the start of an obsession; Ogilvy has since painted more than fifty bird nests from life, each time marvelling at its ingenious construction. Every species of bird has its own vernacular, but sources its materials - most commonly twigs, roots, grasses, reeds, leaves, moss, lichen, hair, feathers and cobwebs, less usually, mattress stuffing and string - according to local availability. Ogilvy would, of course, never disturb nesting birds; instead she relies upon serendipity, which is why all her nests have either been abandoned after fulfilling their purpose, or displaced by strong winds. Although Nests showcases the specimens she has found near her homes in Somerset and on the Isle of Arran, its subject matter is by no means only British, since these same birds can be found all over Europe, Scandinavia and as far afield as Russia, Turkey and North Africa. This wondrous book is all the more special for its rarity. Few modern books exist specifically on the subject of bird nests; the most recent among the author's reference works was published in 1932. Exquisitely designed and packaged, Nests will be an essential addition to the libraries of all nature lovers.