Falcons

AvRichard Sale

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

Del 132 i serien Collins New Naturalist Library

549 kr

Läs direkt i Bokus Reader – eller ladda ned till din enhet

Beskrivning

Falcons have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike.In a much-anticipated volume on one of Britain’s most fascinating group of birds, Richard Sale draws on a wealth of experience and research, providing a comprehensive natural history of the four British breeding falcons. The book takes each of the four breeding species in turn (Kestrel, Merlin, Hobby and Peregrine Falcon), exploring its form, habitat, breeding biology and status, along with a chapter on the hunting techniques of each species.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-28
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780007511433
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers
Serie:Collins New Naturalist Library

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Richard Sale is a physicist, with a PhD in astrophysics. After working as a glaciologist in Switzerland and then in the UK power industry he gave up fulltime physics for his first loves – birds and the Arctic. He has written and taken photographs for many books, including To the Ends of the Earth: The History of Polar Exploration, which was the 2003 UK Outdoor Writers Guild Best Book on an Outdoor Theme, and The Gyrfalcon (Popatov and Sale), which was the US Wildlife Society’s Book of the Year for 2006. While working on the latter he noted that the falcons were not stooping in straight lines, which formed the basis for the work covered in one chapter of this book. He is currently working towards a second PhD, in zoology, with studies on Merlins.