Download or read book British Birds Eggs written by and published by . This book was released on 1879* with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oology and Ralph s Talking Eggs written by Carrol L. Henderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation "oology" and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs: the bird's name, the species reference number, the quantity of eggs in the clutch, the date and location where the eggs were collected, and the collector's name. These documented egg collections, which typically date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, now provide an important baseline from which to measure changes in the numbers, distribution, and nesting patterns of many species of birds. In Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs, Carrol L. Henderson uses the vast egg collection of Ralph Handsaker, an Iowa farmer, as the starting point for a fascinating account of oology and its role in the origins of modern birdwatching, scientific ornithology, and bird conservation in North America. Henderson describes Handsaker's and other oologists' collecting activities, which included not only gathering bird eggs in the wild but also trading and purchasing eggs from collectors around the world. Henderson then spotlights sixty of the nearly five hundred bird species represented in the Handsaker collection, using them to tell the story of how birds such as the Snowy Egret, Greater Prairie Chicken, Atlantic Puffin, and Wood Duck have fared over the past hundred years or so since their eggs were gathered. Photos of the eggs and historical drawings and photos of the birds illustrate each species account. Henderson also links these bird histories to major milestones in bird conservation and bird protection laws in North America from 1875 to the present.
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Download or read book British Birds Eggs written by Arthur Gardiner Butler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Birds' Eggs: A Handbook of British Oology About the year 1852 I first fell a victim to a mania for collecting nothing came amiss, from a cricket to a coin but the ruling passion at that time found its highest satis faction in the acquisition of butterflies and moths, with a dash of beetles thrown in by way of a relish. With the old fever still lingering in my veins, I Visited the seaside in 1871; to my intense disgust, hardly a specimen of any description was to be obtained. Feeling the impossibility of dragging out an inactive existence for four weeks with no alleviation but that offered by the morning swim, I began to cast about for something to give zest to my rambles, when the idea of forming a collection of British Birds' Eggs came to me as a welcome relief. Without delay I set to work in search of nests, having no knowledge to guide me, beyond what I had picked up hap-hazard during my entomological excursions, which amounted to little more than an acquaintance with the notes and general appearance of some of our commoner birds, and the size and colouring of a few of their eggs. As might be expected, the whole of the eggs first collected were blown with two holes, and the discovery that I could expel the contents, by means of a blowpipe, from one hole, was made in total ignorance that this plan had long been in general practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book British Oology Vol 1 written by William C. Hewitson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Oology, Vol. 1: Being Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, With Figures of Each Species, as Far as Practicable, Drawn and Coloured From Nature Few can have failed to notice that wonderful and all-ah sorbing feeling of anxiety, that utter disregard of self, which, during the breeding season, produces so remarkable a change in the nature of many of our birds: converting that wariness for which they are at other times remarkable, into the most heedless disregard of danger. Numerous anecdotes are related of the devotedness of the Partridge, and other species of birds, in the protection of their young. The Misletoe Thrush, usually so shy, seeks the immediate neighbourhood of our houses, during the season of incubation, rearing its young ones within sight of our windows, and spreading terror amongst the rest of the feathered race, by its pugnacious persecution of all intruders. A Kestel Hawk, belonging to a gentleman in Derby, whilst quietly seated upon an apple-tree, unconscious of harm, having excited the suspicions of a Misletoe Thrush, which had its nest near, received its death-blow from its bill, at a single pounce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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