Field Guides
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Packham

5 My Piece of Sky The Egg April 1973 THE JACKDAWS BLEW off the field like bonfire ash, freckling grey into the bone-white sky, breaking down to the roofs, catching ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists August 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-26 | Author:Richard Sale

FIG 188. Typical Hobby habitat for the hunting of chafers and dragonflies. The photograph was taken at Shapwick Heath, Somerset. The Hobby’s enthusiasm for hunting Barn Swallows, House Martins and ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Jay Cassell

33. Return for Wayward Suspenders At times, your fish finder may pinpoint a bit of key structure—an isolated stump, for example, or a rock pile—that is void of crappie. When ...
( Category: Outdoor Cooking July 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-15 | Author:Rachelle Bergstein

11 The Inventors HOW TO MAKE A DIAMOND (AND PROVOKE DE BEERS) Paris, New York, and Washington, DC Unfortunately for diamond industry executives, young, antiestablishment Americans weren’t the only threat ...
( Category: Fashion Design July 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Stephen Moss

Young Little Owls beg their parents for food How have birds’ bills adapted to their different diets? Because birds deal with food using their bill, this appendage has evolved a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences May 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Laura Erickson

Tree and Barn Swallows “One swallow does not a summer make.” That line, coined by Aristotle about 350bce, describes the Barn Swallow, one of the most widespread bird species in ...
( Category: Ornithology May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:Gabriella West [West, Gabriella]

10. For once I was visiting Elsie Street in the daytime. I noted with pleasure that the weather was sunnier than in my old neighborhood. I made the turn up ...
( Category: Architecture May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Donald Kroodsma

Daytime caroling songs Dawn song with carols and hissellys EASTERN BLUEBIRD (Sialia sialis) Summer Year-round Winter HABITAT: Open areas with sparse ground vegetation, often using nest boxes: farmlands, orchards, clear-cuts, ...
( Category: Ornithology May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Robert Clark [Robert Clark and Carl Zimmer]

gray junglefowl PENINSULAR INDIA gallus sonneratii If it weren’t for its remarkable gold and black crest, the Gray Jungle-fowl would look very much like a common farm Chicken. Its colorful ...
( Category: Plants & Animals April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Nancy Cowan

Chapter 21 Airborne The day of reckoning came. I was confident N-Z would come at the call, but I was less confident about how he would go about it. Would ...
( Category: Hunting April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-10 | Author:Marianne Taylor

Black-headed Gulls breed inland as well as on coasts, favouring marshy wetlands. Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla Against the light, Kittiwakes show markedly translucent primary feathers. The Kittiwake is a part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Tim Birkhead

And what of guillemots? In my mind’s eye I can see George Lupton at the end of each day returning to his Bridlington boarding house to examine his haul of ...
( Category: Birds April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Euan Dunn

Puffins are essentially mariners who traverse the boundaries of sea, air and land in the breeding season. Wings must work hard to generate the lift needed for getting a stocky ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-07 | Author:Simon Harrap

MEDITERRANEAN GULL • Larus melanocephalus • 37 cm Once an extreme rarity, now an increasingly common breeding species and widespread on passage and in winter, but finding a ‘Med Gull’ ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 8,2016 )