epub |eng | 1984-06-15 | Author:James Hancock

epub |eng | 2023-04-04 | Author:Naira de Gracia [Gracia, Naira de]

* * * To my immense relief, after three days of hibernation the man behind the curtain gradually came to life again. Usually, Matt is a solid, grounded presence, composed, ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-05 | Author:Stefan Bargheer [Bargheer, Stefan]

I used to be particularly interested in sparrow hawks. It was really when I began to climb trees. I suppose age 11 or 12 or something like that, because sparrow ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Jeremy Mynott [Mynott, Jeremy]

1 Perhaps he is thinking of crocodiles here. 1 Anaximander (died c.545 bc) is the first from this group definitely attested to have produced a book of some sort (and ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Stephen Bodio

JACOBIN— white head just peeping out from its mane. Uncle Joe had kept some fancy breeds—the tumblers, a few fantails—but nothing like these. The first birds to catch my eye ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Candace Savage

An Arthur Rackham illustration for “The Twa Corbies,” or two crows, a Scottish version of the same ballad. The THREE Crows A VERSION OF THE OLD ENGLISH BALLAD “THE THREE ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Sarah Harris & Don Baker

Budgerigar lights gas: owner fined A budgerigar blamed for a black-out offence at Sutton Cold-field, was stated to have turned on a gaslight by perching on the chain … its ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Nik Borrow;

epub |eng | 2018-06-24 | Author:Michael Brooke

Figure-of-8 migration routes of 16 Short-tailed Shearwaters tracked from Great Dog Island, Tasmania. Reproduced with permission of BirdLife Australia, from the work cited in Note 19, Chapter 6. * * ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Rothenberg [Rothenberg, David]

There are different kinds of recordings. Close-up recordings of specific species, so loud and clean, these are impressive, but very quickly you tire of listening to them. There isn’t much ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Barry Gordon Lovegrove; [Lovegrove, Barry Gordon]

Figure 11.3. Grant’s golden mole, Erimitalpa granti, which inhabits the sand dunes of the Namib Desert. (Photo by and used with the kind permission of Galen Rathbun, California Academy of ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Jennifer Ackerman [Ackerman, Jennifer]

* * * — Halfway around the globe, at the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch, New Zealand, Alex Taylor and Ximena Nelson are working to understand whether the warble call ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marianne Taylor

Grasshopper Warblers produce a continuous, reeling song of very rapid clicking sounds, resembling the song of a grasshopper. This diagram shows a typical songbird syrinx. Nightingales, like many accomplished avian ...

epub |eng | | Author:Roger Tory Peterson

BLUE-THROATED MOUNTAIN-GEM Lampornis clemenciae Uncommon, local 5 in. (13 cm). Formerly known as Blue-throated Hummingbird. Note large tail with targe white patches. Male: A very large hummingbird, with black and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mark Lockwood

Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorusplatycercus) Rare spring and occasional fall migrant over the entire plateau. Spring migrants have been reported between late March and late May, with almost all of the records ...