Birds and Climate Change: Impacts and Conservation Responses
ISBN: 9780521114288 / Angielski / Twarda / 477 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems. They are among the best studied and monitored of organisms, yet many are already under threat of extinction as a result of habitat loss, overexploitation and pollution. Providing a single source of information for students, scientists, practitioners and policy-makers, this book begins with a critical review of the existing impacts of climate change on birds, including changes in the timing of migration and breeding...
From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate chang...
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369,92 zł |
Birds and Climate Change: Impacts and Conservation Responses
ISBN: 9780521132190 / Angielski / Miękka / 477 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate change on species and ecosystems. They are among the best studied and monitored of organisms, yet many are already under threat of extinction as a result of habitat loss, overexploitation and pollution. Providing a single source of information for students, scientists, practitioners and policy-makers, this book begins with a critical review of the existing impacts of climate change on birds, including changes in the timing of migration and breeding...
From the red grouse to the Ethiopian bush-crow, bird populations around the world can provide us with vital insights into the effects of climate chang...
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288,78 zł |
Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England
ISBN: 9780618456970 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether you re walking in the woods or along the beach, camping, hiking, canoeing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify all your nature discoveries. With authoritative and broad coverage, using nontechnical and lively language and more than 2,000 color photographs, this guide is an essential reference for nature lovers living in or visiting New England."
Whether you re walking in the woods or along the beach, camping, hiking, canoeing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify... |
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107,36 zł |
Passerine Migration: Stopovers and Flight
ISBN: 9783642290190 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop. They have to make multiple flights alternated with stopovers. Which factors govern the birds' decisions to stop, to stop for how long, when to resume flight? What is better - to accumulate much fuel and to make long flights for many hundreds of kilometres, or to travel in small steps? Is it necessary to find habitats similar to the breeding ones or other habitats would do? Are long migratory flights indeed so costly energetically as usually assumed? This monograph summarizes our current knowledge on...
Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop. They have to make multiple flights alternated with stopove...
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585,00 zł |
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
ISBN: 9781439198742 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stan Coren's groundbreaking The Intelligence of Dogs meets Bernd Heinrich's classic Mind of the Raven in this astonishing, beautifully illustrated look at the uncanny intelligence and emotions of crows. Playful, social, and passionate, crows have brains that are huge for their body size, which allows them to think, plan, and reconsider their actions. They also exhibit an avian kind of eloquence, mate for life, and associate with relatives and neighbors for years. And to people who care for them and feed them, they often give oddly touching gifts in return. The...
Stan Coren's groundbreaking The Intelligence of Dogs meets Bernd Heinrich's classic Mind of the Raven in this astonishing, beautifull...
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67,06 zł |
Neuroscience of Birdsong
ISBN: 9781107411579 / Angielski / Miękka / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Speech has long been thought of as a uniquely defining characteristic of humans. Yet song birds, like humans, communicate using learned signals (song, speech) that are acquired from their parents by a process of vocal imitation. Both song and speech begin as amorphous vocalizations (subsong, babble) that are gradually transformed into an individualized version of the parents' speech, including dialects. With contributions from both the founding forefathers and younger researchers of this field, this book provides a comprehensive summary of birdsong neurobiology, and identifies the common...
Speech has long been thought of as a uniquely defining characteristic of humans. Yet song birds, like humans, communicate using learned signals (song,...
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314,12 zł |
Birds of the Northwest Playing Cards
ISBN: 9781591933861 / Angielski / Other Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This gorgeous deck features real photos of 52 of the most common and appreciated bird species of the Northwestern US, including the Western Bluebird, American Goldfinch, Bullock's Oriole and more Anyone who appreciates birds will love having these playing cards for their favorite games and for quick I.D.
This gorgeous deck features real photos of 52 of the most common and appreciated bird species of the Northwestern US, including the Western Bluebird, ...
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25,56 zł |
Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
ISBN: 9780803296428 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; specifically, extinct North American birds. After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; s... |
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107,15 zł |
The Birds of America: The Bien Chromolithographic Edition
ISBN: 9780393088656 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bound in cloth with a full cloth slipcase, this beautifully produced book is the first complete reproduction of Bien chromolithographs and will become the centerpiece of any bird lover's library.
Bound in cloth with a full cloth slipcase, this beautifully produced book is the first complete reproduction of Bien chromolithographs and will become...
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1482,80 zł |
Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution
ISBN: 9780520274938 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and where they occur within the region. Each species account features original illustrations by Keith Hansen. In addition to characterizing individual species, Birds of the Sierra Nevada also describes ecological zones and bird habitats, recent trends in populations and ranges, conservation...
This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sie...
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336,04 zł |
The Boreal Owl: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of a Forest-Dwelling Predator
ISBN: 9780521113717 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the Boreal Owl's hunting modes, habitats prey interactions, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and conservation.
A study of the Boreal Owl's hunting modes, habitats prey interactions, reproduction, dispersal, survival and mortality, population regulation and cons...
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613,15 zł |
The World's Rarest Birds
ISBN: 9780691155968 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated book vividly depicts the most endangered birds in the world and provides the latest information on the threats each species faces and the measures being taken to save them. Today, 571 bird species are classified as critically endangered or endangered, and a further four now exist only in captivity. This landmark book features stunning photographs of 500 of these species--the results of a prestigious international photographic competition organized specifically for this book. It also showcases paintings by acclaimed wildlife artist Tomasz Cofta of the 75 species for which... This illustrated book vividly depicts the most endangered birds in the world and provides the latest information on the threats each species faces ... |
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193,25 zł |
How Fast Can a Falcon Dive?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Birds of Prey
ISBN: 9780813547909 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "How Fast Can a Falcon Dive?" explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. This colorful volume is complete with more than fifty-five color and black and white images from photographers and artists around the world. In a reader friendly question and answer format, ornithologist Peter Capainolo and science writer Carol A. Butler define and classify raptors, explore the physical attributes of birds of prey, view how their bodies work, and explain the social and physical behaviors of these species-how they communicate, hunt, reproduce, and...
"How Fast Can a Falcon Dive?" explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. This colorful volu...
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126,63 zł |
The Peregrine
ISBN: 9781590171332 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk. It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and...
From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern Engl...
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77,09 zł |
Bird Monitoring Methods: A Manual of Techniques for Key UK Species
ISBN: 9781907807220 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published by the RSPB in 1998, this book is a practical guide to surveying and monitoring techniques for use in the breeding season - in assessing breeding success as well as population levels - and during the winter. It gives instructions for more than 120 UK bird species, mainly those of conservation concern. Methods used in the UK's main national bird monitoring schemes are also outlined with advice on how to participate in them. In addition, the publication provides advice on the reliability of the methods, sampling, statistics and species protection. An essential reference for all...
First published by the RSPB in 1998, this book is a practical guide to surveying and monitoring techniques for use in the breeding season - in assessi...
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228,03 zł |
Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation
ISBN: 9781907807299 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow and his larger than life, yet quietly humane personality has provided the final tools in his own, unique, nature conservationists toolbox. In this book, Mark mixes a great many stories from his professional life at the RSPB with personal anecdotes and passionate arguments on past and present issues in bird and nature conservation. He shows us something of the many...
Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his m...
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65,82 zł |
Fighting for Birds: 25 Years in Nature Conservation
ISBN: 9781907807312 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his management, ambassadorial, and political lobbying activities which were to follow and his larger than life, yet quietly humane personality has provided the final tools in his own, unique, nature conservationists toolbox. In this book, Mark mixes a great many stories from his professional life at the RSPB with personal anecdotes and passionate arguments on past and present issues in bird and nature conservation. He shows us something of the many...
Devoted to birds and wildlife since childhood, Mark s early scientific research at Oxford, Aberdeen and the RSPB provided a solid background for his m...
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101,29 zł |
Ringneck Parakeets, The Complete Owner's Guide to Ringneck Parrots, Including Indian Ringneck Parakeets, their Care, Breeding, Training, Food, Lifespa
ISBN: 9781909820135 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All the facts and information you want to know about Ringneck Parakeets and more. A superb resource to answer all your questions, this book is a must have for anybody passionate about Ringneck, Rose-ringed Parakeets or Indian Ringneck Parakeets. Covering facts and information about the various mutations including blue, yellow, green, white and violet colors. In a straightforward, no nonsense fashion, Rose Sullivan covers all aspects of caring for these wonderful parrots - including training, handling, health, housing, breeding, lifespan, personality, temperament, diet, suitability as pets,...
All the facts and information you want to know about Ringneck Parakeets and more. A superb resource to answer all your questions, this book is a must ...
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72,00 zł |
Birds of the Serengeti: And Ngorongoro Conservation Area
ISBN: 9780691159102 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the world's most famous wildlife regions. Birds of the Serengeti is a groundbreaking and essential photographic guide, featuring more than 270 bird species most likely to be encountered in the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This easy-to-use guide includes 480 dazzling color photos, an attractive and handy layout, and informative and accessible text that discusses interesting behaviors and provides insights into species background. Rich in detail, this indispensable volume uses a habitat-based approach,... Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the world's most famous wildlife regions. Birds of the Serengeti is a groundbreaking a... |
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133,35 zł |
Phillipps' Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan - Fully Revised Third Edition
ISBN: 9780691161679 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the fully revised and updated third edition of an acclaimed field guide to the birds of Borneo, covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan. The result is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and user-friendly guide to the island's remarkably diverse birdlife. The book covers all 673 species living or reported on Borneo, including all 59 endemic species. Each species is superbly illustrated in 141 color plates containing more than 2,000 full-color bird images, which provide multiple large views of each species, including most of the sexual variants and immature forms of... This is the fully revised and updated third edition of an acclaimed field guide to the birds of Borneo, covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalima... |
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158,90 zł |