Enchantment of Birds (eBook)

Memories from a Birder's Life

Richard Cannings (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
208 Seiten
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-926685-08-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and evolution. He muses over the meadowlarks ability to hide their nests so completely that he has seen only two in a lifetime spent searching for them; the trumpeter swan, as picky as a two-year old, devouring potatoes and carrots but turning up its beak at Brussels sprouts; the northern gannet, with its snowy plumage, black wingtips, and startling blue eyes; the little saw-whet owl, which dabbles in bigamy and even trigamy; and more than two dozen other birds. Covering the entire continent, from the cacophony of a seabird colony on the shores of the Atlantic to a symphony of snow geese on the autumn plains to songbird courtship in the alpine tundra of the Rockies, An Enchantment of Birds informs and entertains, in one fell swoop.

Autor

Richard Cannings works as a consulting biologist in Naramata, British Columbia, assessing endangered species and organizing broad-scale bird population surveys, among many other projects. He teaches field ecology at the University of British Columbia and was curator of the Cowan Vertebrate Museum at the university for fifteen years. He is the author of The Rockies: A Natural History and, with Sydney Cannings, of British Columbia: A Natural History and The B.C. Roadside Naturalist.

Inhalt

Western MeadowlarkWestern KingbirdEvening GrosbeakBohemian WaxwingCalifornia QuailBlack-capped ChickadeePygmy NuthatchWhite-headed WoodpeckerCalliope HummingbirdWestern BluebirdCommon PoorwillFlammulated OwlNorthern Saw-whet OwlNorthern Pygmy-OwlNorthern FlickerClark’s NutcrackerAmerican CrowCommon RavenGolden EagleWhite-tailed PtarmiganHorned LarkNorthern GannetTufted PuffinBlack-footed AlbatrossBald EagleAmerican DipperAmerican CootTurkey VultureGray FlycatcherWestern Grebe

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2009
• Reihe/Serie: David Suzuki Institute
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-926685-08-3 / 1926685083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-926685-08-3 / 9781926685083