Download or read book Gulls Walk written by Barbara Nugent and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her grandfather dies, ROWENA PENTRAEGON is determined to save Gulls Walk, the family’s Elizabethan manor house, which is slowly falling into decay. In desperation, she decides to take her lawyer’s advice and rent the east wing. She imagines her future tenant will be elderly, someone who won’t mind the isolation of the lonely, rugged coastline. But the reality is utterly different. Just why has this tall, virile, obviously wealthy Spaniard come to her part of Cornwall? What does he want? And what is the secret of Gulls Walk that has remained hidden for four hundred years?
Download or read book Gulls Simplified written by Pete Dunne and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simpler and more user-friendly visual approach to gull identification This unique photographic field guide to North America’s gulls provides a comparative approach to identification that concentrates on the size, structure, and basic plumage features of gulls—gone are the often-confusing array of plumage details found in traditional guides. Featuring hundreds of color photos throughout, Gulls Simplified illustrates the variations of gull plumages for a variety of ages, giving readers strong visual reference points for each species. Extensive captions accompany the photos, which include comparative photo arrays, digitized photo arrays for each age group, and numerous images of each species—a wealth of visual information at your fingertips. This one-of-a-kind guide includes detailed species accounts and a distribution map for each gull. An essential field companion for North American birders, Gulls Simplified reduces the confusion commonly associated with gull identification, offering a more user-friendly way of observing these marvelous birds. Provides a simpler approach to gull identification Features a wealth of color photos for easy comparison among species Includes detailed captions that explain identification criteria and aging, with direct visual reinforcement above the captions Combines plumage details with a focus on size, body shape, and structural features for easy identification in the field Highlights important field marks and physical features for each gull
Download or read book How to Know the Birds written by Ted Floyd and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegant narrative, celebrated naturalist Ted Floyd guides you through a year of becoming a better birder. Choosing 200 top avian species to teach key lessons, Floyd introduces a new, holistic approach to bird watching and shows how to use the tools of the 21st century to appreciate the natural world we inhabit together whether city, country or suburbs." -- From book jacket.
Download or read book Two Gulls and a Girl written by Roxanne Schinas and published by Imperator Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roxanne Schinas has always had a passion for wildlife. Long before she was old enough to read of Gerald Durrell's adventures she was emulating them, with pets ranging from rabbits and half-tame hedgehogs to toads, sticklebacks, locusts, and a crayfish. In the spring of 2008, while her family were cruising in southern Spain, Roxanne decided to make a survey of the seagull colony on an uninhabited island. The project began with a hand-drawn map on which the nests were plotted. Phase two was to have consisted in the study of the young birds growing up on the island, but when a local nature warden told her that most of the chicks would die, Roxanne found that she had a perfect excuse for "rescuing" two and bringing them home. Mother was not impressed... but the deed was done, and now the young naturalist had the opportunity to study, intimately, the development of Larus Cachinanns, the yellow-legged gull. Two Gulls and a Girl is Roxanne's record of events in the seagull colony and amongst her two hand-reared birds. Contains 92 black-and-white photos and illustrations. Foreword by Richard Williamson.
Download or read book On Gull Beach written by Jane Yolen and published by On Bird Hill and Beyond. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Cape Cod shoreline, gulls perform acrobatics in pursuit of a sea star.
Download or read book Gulls of Europe Asia and North America written by Klaus Malling Olsen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eagerly awaited guide offers the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the gulls of Europe, Asia and North America. A total of 43 species is treated, and every species is described in considerable detail, with a full description of each plumage and racial variation. Gulls are intelligent, versatile, opportunistic, and ecological generalists. As such, they exploit a variety of habitats, both coastal and inland, take a wide range of food, and are often extremely abundant. They are also great wanderers, with several American species regularly appearing in Western Europe and vice versa. As well as identification criteria, this book includes an up-to-date assessment of the range and status of every species, together with information on patterns of vagrancy. This important guide is published at a critical time in the development of dull taxonomy. The large, white-headed forms occurring in the region comprise a superspecies complex, with the precise relationships between the various components still under considerable debate. A thorough illustrative and textual treatment of the group is much needed, and this book provided the most complete overview of the complex. The text is complemented not only by superb colour paintings by Hans Larrson, but also by a large selection of colour photographs, sourced from some of the finest bird photographers in the world. This is the essential reference to a fascinating and endlessly challenging group of birds.
Download or read book Gulls of the World written by Klaus Malling Olsen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive photographic guide to the world’s gull species With more than 50 gull species in the world, this family of seabirds poses some of the greatest field identification challenges of any bird group: age-related plumage changes, extensive variations within species, frequent hybridization, and complex distribution. Gulls of the World takes on these challenges and is the first book to provide a comprehensive look at these birds. Concise text emphasizes field identification, with in-depth discussion of variations as well as coverage of habitat, status, and distribution. Abundant photographs highlight identification criteria and, crucially, factor in age and subspecific field separation. Informative species accounts are accompanied by detailed color range maps. Gulls of the World is the most authoritative photographic guide to this remarkable bird family. The first book to provide in-depth coverage of all the world's gull species More than 600 stunning color photographs Concise text looks at variations, habitat, status, and distribution Informative species accounts and color range maps
Download or read book Neighborhood Birding 101 written by Seymore Gulls and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and concise bird identification guide featuring the most common neighborhood birds found in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. It includes 158 diagnostic bird photos of 110 different bird species with highlighted field marks and fun facts.
Download or read book Amazing Gulls written by Marlin Bree and published by Marlor Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seafarer Marlin Bree captures the poetry of the seagull's flight, the majesty of its soaring wings, and its amusing antics as gulls gregariously interact with humans. Through black-and-white digital stop-sequence photography, this tribute introduces their habits and habitats, their special abilities, and their remarkable intelligence. Via detailed drawings and illustrations, Bree examines the gulls' "wings of wonder" and how they achieve their amazing sense of air, control their soaring and hovering, and remain aloft over great distances. The work also recounts fascinating legends that have sprung up over the years about gulls and their mystical symbolism in life and death, as well as lighthearted stories, such as that of Sam, a gull who walks into a seafront store and picks up the same brand bag of chips day after day.
Download or read book The Complete Up North written by Doug Bennet and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Up North books, this is an entertaining guide to Ontario's north for every cottager, camper, and nature lover. Have you ever wondered how porcupines procreate? Or where you can best see the northern lights? Or how many fireflies it takes to equal the light of a 40-watt bulb? The answers to these questions — and many, many more — are in this lively and indispensable field guide to the plants and animals of Ontario's wilderness. Filled with amusing trivia, easy-to-understand natural history, and little-known folklore, The Complete Up North is the perfect introduction and companion to Ontario's great outdoors. Naturalists Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner answer those questions we have always wanted to ask — and many others we wish we'd thought to ask — about plants, mammals, birds, fish, insects, reptiles, clouds, the night sky, the weather, and the ground we walk on. Their infectious curiosity makes Up North as fun and interesting to read as it is useful to pack for a hike into the woods.
Download or read book The Cabinet Cylcopaedia on the Natural History and Classification of Birds written by William Swainson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Download or read book Birds and Birding at Cape May written by Clay Sutton and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-ever birding guide to this celebrated site. Insider advice on 33 popular places and lesser-known hot spots. Describes birding opportunities any time of the year.
Download or read book Walking On Chalk written by Kiersty Boon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a seaside town and introducing many of the colourful local characters, this book introduces Kate and Ern, showing us their unique love story. Ern is a street artist who creates amazing illusions and worlds with his pictures. Kate is just a girl, who's trying to get by, in her own inimitable fashion, when she quite literally stumbles into his path.
Download or read book Tales from Elsewhere written by Borry Porter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a second foray into the author's life experiences as she re-introduces readers to her extended family and friends who were first encountered in her previous book Tales from the Seaside. This selection of tales are taken from other family holidays which span the author's lifetime. Readers accompany the family as they gallop across Europe, go north of the border and attempt to exchange their water-skis for snow skis, deal with mother and daughter drunken escapades, excitable vibrating beds, being marooned in a dinghy after losing the oars and the author's first (and only) bull-fighting experience. More fun and frolics experienced by all.
Download or read book Winter s Eden written by Barbara Nugent and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Arundel is driving over the lonely Yorkshire moors when a late winter blizzard causes her to seek shelter in what appears to be a hotel. The angry owner assumes she is a journalist and accuses her of trying to sabotage his secret meeting. What is this political intrigue into which Amanda has stumbled? She embarks on an incredible adventure in the mountains of Afghanistan where she unravels the answer.
Download or read book Tracks and Signs of the Birds of Britain and Europe written by David Lees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain and Europe contains a wealth of fascinating material for any field naturalist. This unique guide enables the reader to find, interpret and understand field marks left by a variety of birds throughout Britain and Europe, and to use these to identify the species in question. It covers subjects including tracks and trails, feeding and other behavioural signs, nests, pellets, droppings, feathers and skulls, habitat types and field analysis methods. All European bird families are featured, with numerous individual species being described in detail. Fully revised and updated, this third edition contains a great deal of new material, including 19 new colour plates and hundreds of new photographs, line drawings and diagrams. Tracks & Signs of the Birds of Britain and Europe is an indispensable addition to any feather-finder or track-watcher's backpack – the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to identify a bird species from the sometimes subtle clues they leave behind.
Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
