Download or read book RINGING BIRD written by Keith E. Moen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SYNOPSIS In the middle of the twelfth century on the island of Sitka in Southeast Alaska, a young Tlingit boy, YASIKOO, stands with tears in his eyes on the rocky wet beach of SHEE-ATIKA. He is thirteen, has finished his initiation and now at this first opportunity to prove his new manhood, is ordered to stay behind. His father, KAA-SHAADEI and seven other men are on their way by canoe to an important trading mission to the Stahkin River in the south. Some inner fear, some deep knowing tells Yasikoo that his father and the others are headed into grave danger. He tries in vain to warn them. A?AKA-LIGOAN, Yasikoo?s grandmother is a powerful shaman. She has the ability to see future events. Carefully, she has been encouraging and preparing her grandson for the most important decision of his life. Grandmother tells him about the wondrous gift coming to him from across the great water, GANOOK, the petrel. At the gathering in Hoonah for the High Chief CHAAK SE?, Yasikoo and his mother KEIOLADEE learn that Kaa-shaadei and his men have been taken prisoner and are now slaves of the TAHLTAN tribe. Their captor is the strange foreign giant REDHAIR. He has white skin, green eyes, and hair the color of salmon flesh. Yasikoo grows impatient with the slow careful planning of the elders and decides to go alone to rescue his father. Before he leaves a terrible storm washes the wreckage of a large boat ashore on Middle Island. On this wreck Yasikoo finds a bronze casting of a seabird. While prying this thing loose it falls to the rocks below and rings. It rings. No one here has ever heard a sound like this. No one here, Yasikoo knows, has ever seen anything like this. This is Ganook, the gift from the sea that his grandmother spoke of. Perhaps with this amazing thing Yasikoo can buy his father?s freedom. Yasikoo leaves now to face the wild and stormy Southeast Alaskan coast alone; to face the frightening Redhair alone. With courage and wisdom beyond his years, Yasikoo wages a strange intense battle against his enemies. He faces death; His grandmother?s power sustains him. He faces enormous fear; the faith and legends of his ancestors embolden him. He faces terrible loss; grief strengthens him. He faces victory and victory will change his life forever.
Download or read book Bird Ringing Station Manual written by Przemyslaw Busse and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to standardize elements of the station routine, the book describes the procedures used in passerine and wader ringing stations. It offers a comparative analysis of versatile evaluation techniques such as measurements, orientation experiments and monitoring. The authors meticulously analyze different methods used to track birds, including catching passerines with mist-nets in land and wetland habitat, as well as the use of the Heligoland trap. The monograph, as a successful bid to establish a bird station routine that is favourable to both birds and ringers, will benefit all professional and amateur ringers.
Download or read book Bird Ringing written by Dawn E. Balmer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 sees the celebration of 100 years of bird ringing in Britain and Ireland, and this guide highlights some of the major achievements of the Scheme over that time. People have always been fascinated by the movements of birds, whether they be seasonal comings and goings of migrants, or local movements of our own breeding birds. Ringing has long been the best tool to answer many of these questions, from the first bird ringed (a Lapwing) in Aberdeen in 1909. Since then, over 35 million birds have been ringed by trained and licensed BTO volunteers, from seabirds on remote Scottish islands, to common-or-garden birds caught at standardised ringing sites. Bird Ringing is an ideal training tool for ringers, explaining how and why we ring birds. It contains numerous examples of how ringing has contributed to conservation science and research, and how it helps us understand population changes by providing information on survival and recruitment. The guide is also a great introduction to bird ringing for non-ringers, not only highlighting the Scheme's successes, but also explaining why we still need to keep ringing today. Full of facts and figures, you can find out about some of the Scheme's record-breakers: which bird lives to over 50 years old? Which bird has travelled the furthest, found 18,000 km from home? How old is our oldest Blackbird? Which bird was found in the stomach of a crocodile in The Gambia? Which group of three birds ringed in Cambridgeshire were found together later the same day, 350 km away in France?
Download or read book Bird Ringing written by Chris Mead and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ringing Migration written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds of Central Asia written by Raffael Ayé and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds of Central Asia is the first field guide to include the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, along with neighbouring Afghanistan. This vast area includes a diverse variety of habitats, and the avifauna is similarly broad, from sandgrouse, ground jays and larks on the vast steppe and semi-desert to a broad range of raptors, and from woodland species such as warblers and nuthatches to a suite of montane species, such as snowcocks, accentors and snowfinches. This book includes 141 high-quality plates covering every species (and all distinctive races) that occur in the region, along with concise text focusing on identification and accurate colour maps. Important introductory sections introduce the land and its birds. Birds of Central Asia is a must-read for any birder or traveller visiting this remote region.
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passions for Birds written by Sean Nixon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds evoke strong feelings. Sean Nixon traces the transformation of these human passions for wild birds from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, detailing humans’ close encounters with wild birds in Britain and the wider North Atlantic world. Drawing on a rich range of written sources, Passions for Birds reveals how emotional, subjective, and material attachments to wild birds were forged through a period of pronounced social and cultural change. Nixon demonstrates how, for all their differences, new traditions in birdwatching and conservation, field sports, and bird harvesting mobilized remarkably similar feelings towards birds. Striking similarities also emerged in the material forms that each of these practices used to bring birds closer to people – hides and traps, nets and ropes, and binoculars. Wide ranging in scope, Passions for Birds sheds new light on the ways in which wild birds helped shape humans throughout the twentieth century, as well as how birds themselves became burdened with multiple cultural meanings and social anxieties over time.
Download or read book Examining Ecology written by Paul A. Rees and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Ecology: Exercises in Environmental Biology and Conservation explains foundational ecological principles using a hands-on approach that features analyzing data, drawing graphs, and undertaking practical exercises that simulate field work. The book provides students and lecturers with real life examples to demonstrate basic principles. The book helps students, instructors, and those new to the field learn about the principles of ecology and conservation by completing a series of problems. Prior knowledge of the subject is not assumed; the work requires users to be able to perform simple calculations and draw graphs. Most of the exercises in the book have been used widely by the author’s own students over a number of years, and many are based on real data from published research. Exercises are succinct with a broad number of options, which is a unique feature among similar books on this topic. The book is primarily intended as a resource for students, academics, and instructors studying, teaching, and working in zoology, ecology, biology, wildlife conservation and management, ecophysiology, behavioural ecology, population biology and ecology, environmental biology, or environmental science. Students will be able to progress through the book attempting each exercise in a logical sequence, beginning with basic principles and working up to more complex exercises. Alternatively they may wish to focus on specific chapters on specialist areas, e.g., population dynamics. Many of the exercises introduce students to mathematical methods (calculations, use of formulae, drawing of graphs, calculating simple statistics). Other exercises simulate fieldwork projects, allowing users to ‘collect’ and analyze data which would take considerable time and effort to collect in the field. Facilitates learning about the principles of ecology and conservation biology through succinct, yet comprehensive real-life examples, problems, and exercises Features authoritatively and consistently written foundational content in biodiversity, ecophysiology, behavioral ecology, and more, as well as abundant and diverse cases for applied use Functions as a means of learning ecological and conservation-related principles by ‘doing’, e.g., by analyzing data, drawing graphs, and undertaking practical exercises that simulate field work, and more Features approximately 150 photos and figures created and produced by the author
Download or read book The Malay Archipelago the Land of the Orang utan and the Bird of Paradise written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Malay Archipelago the Land of the Orang utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds written by Abdul Jamil Urf and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks To Acquiant Bird Watchers, Nature Lovers And Students Both From A Zoology And Non-Zoology Background With Ecology, Conservation Issues, Bird Study Principles And Methods Of Observing And Recording. Has 8 Chapters, A Glossary And Appendices. A Number Of Colour Illustrations And Line Drawings.
Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Climate Change on Birds written by Anders Pape Møller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change affects all living organisms; it has done so in the past and will do so in the future. However, current climate change is exceptional both in terms of the rate of change and the impact of multiple types of global change on individuals, populations, species, and ecosystems. Effects of Climate Change on Birds provides an exhaustive and up-to-date synthesis of the science of climate change as it relates to birds. Compared with any other class of animals, birds provide more long-term data and extensive time series (some dating back more than 100 years), a more geographically and taxonomically diverse source of information, and a longer tradition of extensive research. In fact this research record exceeds what is available in all other organisms combined.
Download or read book The Avifauna of Hong Kong written by G.J. Carey, M.L. Chalmers, D.A. Diskin, P.R. Kennerley, P.J. Leader, M.R. Leven, R.W. Lewthwaite, D.S. Melville, M. Turnbull and L. Young and published by Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 41 years of Hong Kong Bird Watching Society records and surveys, including the first comprehensive breeding bird survey carried out in Hong Kong. A detailed analysis of the changing status and distribution of each species in Hong Kong, together with a review of 20 years of waterbird count data, an assessment of the effect of the wild bird trade on birds in Hong Kong and a summary of data collected as part of a long-term ringing programme make this an essential reference to the status and distribution of the birds of south China.
Download or read book The Ring written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Birds and Their Ways written by Alonzo C. Webb and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
