Field Guides
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Richard Williamson

Woodland JULY HAS ALWAYS been known as the ‘Silent Month’ in the countryside, as many birds start to moult. Years ago schoolchildren used to collect these feathers and stick them ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Ian Newton

Nest-sites and predators To protect their nests from predators, some bird species rely on camouflage, others on dense cover, and yet others on relatively inaccessible sites, such as high trees ...
( Category: Evolution November 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bailey, Bill [Bailey, Bill]

( Category: Nature & Ecology November 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:Dominic Couzens & Mark Sisson [Couzens, Dominic & Sisson, Mark]

Puffins live in each other’s pockets during the breeding season. In a dense colony, neighbours are never far away. And since puffins are long-lived birds, the same individuals may well ...
( Category: Evolution November 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Dan Koeppel [Koeppel, Dan]

CHAPTER SEVEN MINUS ONE “ In March 1973, I was booked as a speaker on a cruise that left from Jamaica for Cartagena, Colombia, the San Blas Islands, Panama, Honduras, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-10 | Author:Neil Hayward [Hayward, Neil]

( Category: Traveler & Explorer Biographies November 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-29 | Author:Martin Roach

It’s not just the release of hormones and chemicals that affect the individual at speed. With greater speed comes greater demands on the human body and senses. Land speed drivers ...
( Category: Field Guides November 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-30 | Author:Peter D. Vickery

( Category: Nature & Ecology November 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Jennifer Ackerman [Ackerman, Jennifer]

Finback whale I once saw a jar containing a pickled human embryo in the National Museum of Natural History. It had a bulging reptilian head, a tail, and arches like ...
( Category: Field Guides October 31,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernst Mayr

(A) Very whitish below; prevailing color of upperparts pale grayish (with a little rufous and some black and white mottling). Near caves, cliffs, hollow trees, or human habitations .................................. alba ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Mark Bittner [Bittner, Mark]

By late October, the flock was flying as a single group again. It was the time of year in which I got my cleanest flock counts. The usual pattern was ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:David Cabot

Also in Mayo, near the southern border of the county, is a much overgrazed sessile oak and silver birch wood struggling to survive. The Erriff river valley wood at Erriff ...
( Category: Natural History August 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Lawrence Anthony

chapter twenty-three Most of my interactions with the herd had been from a Land Rover. This was deliberate as I wanted them to get used to vehicles. It worked; our ...
( Category: Wildlife August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-31 | Author:Unknown

28. The only holidays we’d gone on as a family were Christmases at relatives’ homes or bank holidays exploring the surrounding parishes’ callows and eskers and boglands. We revelled in ...
( Category: Memoirs August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Victoria Finlay [Finlay, Victoria]

The Topkapi Dagger Among the most famous emeralds in the Islamic world are three huge South American stones, set in the shaft of a dagger. It is called the Topkapi ...
( Category: Rocks & Minerals August 6,2020 )