This excellent RSPB guide to bird anatomy looks at the avian body, system by system, how it evolved, and how it functions.
Author: Marianne Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472976918
Category: Nature
Page: 224
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What is a bird? To answer that, we must understand how birds are different from all other living things and how they fit into the diversity of life on Earth. This excellent RSPB guide to bird anatomy looks at the avian body, system by system, how it evolved, and how it functions. Chapters explore traits that are unique to birds, including their remarkable one-way breathing cycle, their trimmed-down skeleton, how feathers permit flight, provide weather-proofing and add beauty, and the avian bill – a lightweight replacement for both teeth and food-handling forelimbs. Each chapter tackles a particular body system and includes detailed anatomical illustrations, from cells and organs to skeletons and muscles, to show how birds' anatomical adaptations enable all their physical feats and fascinating behaviour. Feature spreads offer more in-depth analysis on topics like birdsong, temperature control, ornamentation, unusual diets, social behaviour, nocturnal adaptations, mutation and natural selection. Featuring more than 300 diagrams and colour photos, this fascinating new book also looks at the human impact on the avian world and reveals how behaviour and anatomy work together to produce these vibrant living beings that delight and inspire us so much.
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Author: Marianne Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472976901
Category: Nature
Page: 224
View: 706
What is a bird? To answer that, we must understand how birds are different from all other living things and how they fit into the diversity of life on Earth. This excellent RSPB guide to bird anatomy looks at the avian body, system by system, how it evolved, and how it functions. Chapters explore traits that are unique to birds, including their remarkable one-way breathing cycle, their trimmed-down skeleton, how feathers permit flight, provide weather-proofing and add beauty, and the avian bill – a lightweight replacement for both teeth and food-handling forelimbs. Each chapter tackles a particular body system and includes detailed anatomical illustrations, from cells and organs to skeletons and muscles, to show how birds' anatomical adaptations enable all their physical feats and fascinating behaviour. Feature spreads offer more in-depth analysis on topics like birdsong, temperature control, ornamentation, unusual diets, social behaviour, nocturnal adaptations, mutation and natural selection. Featuring more than 300 diagrams and colour photos, this fascinating new book also looks at the human impact on the avian world and reveals how behaviour and anatomy work together to produce these vibrant living beings that delight and inspire us so much.
This beautiful new guide is illustrated throughout with stunning photographs, anatomical art and line diagrams that reveal the beauty and menace of everyday life in the insect world.
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 1472976878
Category:
Page: 224
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Insects live alongside us in great profusion - sometimes even in intimate proximity. Their importance to the ecosystems of our world, and to our own survival, cannot be overstated. But it can be challenging to relate to them as fellow living beings when their bodies' structure and function are so dramatically different from our own. This excellent RSPB guide to insect anatomy aims to demystify the way that insects live, from the fine detail of their internal processes to the way they co-exist with all other forms of life. Insects exhibit dizzying diversity across their millions of species. Among them are mighty hunters, voracious plant defoliators, deep divers, high-fliers, master builders and devoted parents. Within the vast nests of honey-bees, ants and termites, we see them come together to form a huge, complex, multifaceted living machine. All this variation and potential has come about through evolved modification of a simple but perfectly elegant body plan. Each chapter of this book tackles a particular body system or aspect of insect biology, from respiration to digestion, movement to metamorphosis. Using a step-by-step approach, the book breaks down structures and processes and explores the myriad ways these are expressed in different insect groups. Separate pages delve into particular aspects of insect biology and ecology, such as how their colours are formed and the biology behind their remarkable migratory behaviour. Featuring numerous diagrams and more than 200 colour photos, this user-friendly guide is perfect for anyone interested in learning more about these extraordinary animals that - in terms of numbers, if not size - dominate our planet today.
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Release on 1895 | by Somerville (Mass.). Public Library
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Also includes information on their anatomy, diet, vocalizations, hummingbird mimics, and how to attract them to your yard. This guide is an indispensable source of portable information and ideal for field use by nature lovers of all ages.
Author: James Kavanagh
Publisher: Waterford Press
ISBN: 1583557911
Category: Nature
Page:
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The jewels of the bird world, hummingbirds are one of America's most popular bird species. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights the males and females of 20 U.S. and Canadian species, their distribution maps, and a few exotics from Mexico and Central America. Also includes information on their anatomy, diet, vocalizations, hummingbird mimics, and how to attract them to your yard. This guide is an indispensable source of portable information and ideal for field use by nature lovers of all ages. Made in the USA.
It contains a full classificahilates distance , and brings the tion of the entire North American bird up to your eyes . ... of the birds . The difficulty in focussing the binocular advantage of such a book is that the desired object .
598 Aves ( Birds ) names BIRD , David Michael , 598 The bird almanac : the ultimate guide to essential facts and figures of ... GRIMMETT , Richard , 1960598'.0954 Pocket guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent / Richard Grimmett ...
Introduction a What is the justification for a new kind of bird guide ? Perhaps the following will answer this question . In the spring of 1958 the senior author , while on an Audubon bird hike near Tucson , Arizona , was confronted ...
Author: Lou Blachly
Publisher: Outlet
ISBN: 051767954X
Category: Science
Page: 356
View: 381
Guide to bird identification which offers an instant key to bird patterns and tone characteristics
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A Pocket Guide to the Nature and Treatment of Common Affections of the Eye . ... ( N.Y. ) Gay En Bird , 10/6 Jones ( T. W. ) Report on the State of the Blood , and the Blood Vessels in ... A Text Book on Anatomy , Physiology , & c .
Item # 944 , ABA Sales Price $ 24.95 ( List Price $ 29.95 ) FIER CODE Birds of the Beagle Channel and Cape Hom Enrique Couve and Claudio Vidal - Ojeda Fantastico Sur ; published 2000 ; 265 pages ; paper in a small pocket guide provides ...
On a more technical level is the recent pocketsized Outlines of Avian Anatomy by King and McLelland.96 The nomenclature in this handy book is up - to - date , the explanations are clear and technical and the illustrations are simple but ...
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A TEXT - BOOK OF PA THOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND PATHOGENESIS . Translated and Edited by ... FIELD POCKET - BOOK FOR THE AUXILIARY FORCES . 16mo . Is . 6d . ... THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO : The Land of the Orang Utang and the Bird of Paradise .