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Published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1980., 1979
ISBN 10: 0002195372ISBN 13: 9780002195379
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
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(Hardcover, 1980). (1979) 1980 reprint. 8vo (152 x 222mm). Pp304. B/w plates & illustrations, maps & bibliography. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good. Plastic wrapper to price-clipped dust-wrapper. "Because of their ubiquity and apparent boldness, the tits are among the most easily observed, and the most popular, of all British birds. .Curiously, little has been written about tits for the general naturalist. In this book, Christopher Perrins .sets out to remedy this omission. .The book deals with seven species of tit. these include, the six members of the true tits - coal, Great, Blue, Crested, Marsh and Willow Tits - as well as the more distantly related Long-tailed Tit. In addition to dealing with the general biology and behaviour of the birds, Dr. Perrins gives full attention to such things as their social lives, their intelligence and adaptiveness, and ther puzzling ability to adjust their population sizes to the future availability of food. [This] study demonstrates that there is much unsuspected complexity - some of it still not clearly understood - in the lives of even the most popular of groups of birds." .
Published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1980., 1980
ISBN 10: 0002197278ISBN 13: 9780002197274
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
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Condition: New. (Hardcover, 1980 ). (1980) 1980s reprint. 8vo (150 x 222mm). Pp320. B/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations & maps, charts, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly faded dust-wrapper. This is a detailed and authoritative account of the world's waders, their biology and ecology. Chapters include; The waders; Habitats and adaptation; Geographical distribution and variation; Breeding biology; Migration; Wintering populations; Communal roosting; Moult; Feeding ecology; Energy balance; Mortality and evolution; Carrying capacities in the non-breeding season; Cockles and conservation; Appendices give; monthly records of rarities, American waders in the British Isles, rare Eurasian waders in the British Isles, other Hastings rarities struck off the British List, species not considered now as rarities. New Naturalist No. 65. .
Published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1980., 1980
ISBN 10: 0002197278ISBN 13: 9780002197274
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Condition: New. (Hardcover, 1980 ). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 222mm). Pp320. B/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations & maps, charts, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly faded dust-wrapper. This is a detailed and authoritative account of the world's waders, their biology and ecology. Chapters include: The waders; Habitats and adaptation; Geographical distribution and variation; Breeding biology; Migration; Wintering populations; Communal roosting; Moult; Feeding ecology; Energy balance; Mortality and evolution; Carrying capacities in the non-breeding season; Cockles and conservation; Appendices give; monthly records of rarities, American waders in the British Isles, rare Eurasian waders in the British Isles, other Hastings rarities struck off the British List, species not considered now as rarities. New Naturalist No. 65. .
Published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. 1980., 1980
ISBN 10: 0002190419ISBN 13: 9780002190411
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 223mm). Pp380. B/w photograph plates, b/w illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Creases to slightly shaken spine, slight stains to cloth, slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good in slightly spine-faded and used dust-wrapper. "The Shetland Islands are the nothernmost part of the British Isles, lying midway between Norway and Scotland, near the edge of the Continental Shelf. their isolation and mixture of oceanic and Arctic ecologies have given rise to unique plant associations as well as forms of animal and plant species unknown on the British mainland. [This book] is the first comprehensive account of the islands' plants and animals. .It should be invaluable for allthose concerned with the impact of North Sea oil and its related industries on Shetland. .The authors are R.J. Berry .Professor of Genetics at University College London, and Laughton Johnston, a Shetland schoolmaster." Chapters have also been contributed by other researchers. Chapters include; island life and the place of Shetland; geological history (D.Flinn); natural history of man in Shetland; vegetation (D.H.N.Spence); the sea; whales and seals; lochs and burns; land animals; terrestrial birds; seabirds; birds of Fair Isle (I.Robertson); Shetland naturalists; oil and the natural environment of Shetland; conservation. An appendix gives further information on, fungi, marine algae (D.E.G.Irvine), bryophytes (M.O.Hill and Jean A.Paton), lichens (D.L.Hawksworth), flowering plants and ferns (W.Scott and R.C.Palmer), Siphonaptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera (M.Bacchus), spiders (P.Ashmole), land and freshwater molluscs (Nora Macmillan), birds. Suggestions of places to visit (handy enough as Shetland is enormous). .