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Sea-Birds
Door James Fisher e.a.
| Categorie | Algemeen Vogels |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #368098 |
| Titel | Sea-Birds |
| Auteur | Fisher, James & R. M. Lockley |
| Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
| Uitgeverij | London : Collins |
| Jaar van uitgave | 2013 |
| ISBN10 | 0007406258 |
| ISBN13 | 9780007406258 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs (some in colour), maps, 8vo. Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 28. |
| Samenvatting | <p>Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean in which about half the world sea-bird species have been seen at one time or another. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists. com</p> <p>Few of the higher animals have successfully invaded the polar regions and the sea; but those that have – the whales, seals and sea-birds – have made a wonderful success of it. There are only about 250 true sea-birds in the world (there are over thirty times as many others); yet among this select 250 are some of the most numerous and well-adapted of living species, ranging from the magnificent albatrosses, with their powers of sail-planing, to the curious diving petrels; from the penguins to the auks; from the cormorants to the gulls and terns.</p> <p>The arctic tern makes the longest migratory journey of any known bird, travelling 20,000 miles between the two polar regions in the course of a year. Some sea-birds species probably spend the first seven or eight years of their lives without ever touching land; and one, the emperor penguin, never touches land in its life, for it incubates its egg on the Antarctic ice!</p> <p>This book introduces the reader to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean in which about half the world sea-bird species have been seen at one time or another. Sea-birds are generally more cosmopolitan and widespread than most land birds; and it is no surprise to the ornithologist to find that the communities on the American and European sides of the Atlantic are very similar, most of their member-species being common to both.</p> <p>The authors of this book have spent most of their active lives in research on sea-birds, Lockley specialising in Life-histories, Fisher in distribution and numbers. Each has a long record of exploration of the remotest parts of the Atlantic coast and islands. Their felicitous collaboration brings home for the first time to the general bird-watcher and sea-going naturalist what enormous strides have been recently made in our knowledge of sea-birds. We now know the world population of several soecies, and can follow with accuracy the changes in the numbers of many.</p> |
| Pagina's | 320 |
| Conditie | Redelijk — Foxed; foxed on cut; dust jacket slightle damaged along the edges (small pieces missing). |
| Prijs | € 9,00 |
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