Storm Petrel and the Owl of Athena (eBook)

Louis Joseph Halle (Autor)

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2015
282 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6933-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The first part of this book describes a wide variety of seabirds from the author's personal observation and knowledge of their ways; the second offers reflective essays on the general theme of birds in their relation to man.Originally published in 1970.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Algeria • American Robin • arctic tern • AUK • Bearded vulture • bird • Black-crowned night heron • Black-eared wheatear • Black-headed Gull • Black kite • Black robin • Black tern • Black-throated loon • black vulture • canada goose • Carrion crow • Charles Darwin • Couch's kingbird • desert island • Domestic pigeon • duck • Egyptian vulture • Eurasian collared dove • Feral Pigeon • flightless bird • Flightless cormorant • frigatebird • Gannet • garganey • Gaviiformes • Goose • Great black-backed gull • Great skua • Grebe • Grey heron • Griffon vulture • Guira cuckoo • gull • Hen harrier • Herring Gull • House sparrow • Iceland gull • insect • Kentucky warbler • kingbird • kittiwake • Larus • lepidopterist • Little auk • Little Owl • Mollymawk • Mourning Dove • mute swan • Mycenae • Noctua (constellation) • North America • Ornithology • Ovenbird • Ovenbird (family) • Owl of Athena • Oystercatcher • Parasitic jaeger • Passenger pigeon • Penguin • peregrine falcon • phalarope • plumage • psittacosis • Puffin • razorbill • Red-tailed Hawk • Rhea (bird) • Rock dove • Sardinian warbler • Screech owl • Short-Eared Owl • skua • snow goose • Snowy egret • Snowy Owl • Song sparrow • South America • southern hemisphere • Stork • Storm petrel • Subalpine warbler • swallow • Swallow-tailed kite • Tawny Owl • tern • the life of birds • Tinamou • Tropicbird • Turkey Vulture • Two Birds • Uria • wandering albatross • whaling • Whiskered tern • Whistling heron
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6933-1 / 1400869331
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6933-6 / 9781400869336