Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Наука
Год издания: 1997
isbn: 5-02-004193-9
Количество страниц: 321
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
Книга, предлагаемая вниманию читателей, посвящена речным уткам. В настоящем томе, кроме описания миграций речных уток, помещены два коротких очерка о результатах мечения мандаринки и малого гоголя. Большая часть представленного материала была получена и обработана орнитологами России. Интересные материалы подготовлены Е.Б. Кацем (Латвия), А. Зифке (Германия) и Д.Н. Нанкиновым (Болгария).
Автор: Peter R. Marler, Hans Slabbekoorn
Издательство: Ac----ic Press
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 0124730701
Количество страниц: 504
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have striven to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds.
Автор: Бутурлин С.А.
Издательство: КОИЗ
Год издания: 1935
Количество страниц: 280
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
Настоящая работа является 2-м томом "Полного определителя птиц СССР", составленного С. А. Бутурлиным с помощью Г. П. Дементьева. Он составлен всецело С. А. Бутурлиным и имеет совершенно самостоятельное значение, как определитель семи "отрядов" (больших, основных групп) наших охотничье-промысловых птиц. Именно он включает: гагаровых (поганки или чомги и гагары), веслоногих птиц (пеликаны или бабы-птицы, бакланы, олуши и фрегаты), цаплевых птиц (цапли, выпи. аисты, колпицы, ибисы, каравайки и их родственники), пластинчатоклювых (краснокрылы Или фламинго, лебеди, гуси и казарки, пеганки, утки, турпаны и гаги, крохали), куриных птиц (рябчики, тетерева, глухари, различные куропатки, перепела, улары, фазаны и их родственники), пастушковых (дрофы и стрепета, журавли, пастушки, коростели или дергачи, лысухи и другие болотные куры и погоныши) и триперсток или гемиподов.
Определительные таблицы составлены так, что пользоваться ими может каждый грамотный человек, без всяких специальных знаний, руководствуясь только введением, где объяснено, как пользоваться определителем, как называются различные участки оперения и как измеряются разные части тела.
Автор: Бутурлин С.А.
Издательство: КОИЗ
Год издания: 1934
Количество страниц: 256
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
Настоящий определитель составлен так, чтобы любую птицу, встреченную внаших пределах, мог определить всякий грамотный человек. Кроме того в определитель введены и краткие указания такого рода, которые полезны и даже необходимы при более углубленном изучении наших птиц. Работа эта будет полезна и краеведам, юным натуралистам и любителям природы, и охотникам, и работникам просвещения от низших школ до высших учебных заведений и научно-исследовательских организаций включительно.
Настоящий том охватывает пять отрядов из числа промыслово-охотничьих птиц: куликов, чайковых птиц, чистиков, рябков и голубей.
Автор: Miller J. Davis S.
Издательство: Dorling Kindersley
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 978-0-7566-3133-8
Количество страниц: 72
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Experts who work with birds are known as ornithologists, but they do many and varied jobs. Meet a scientist who saves rare birds around the world, then find out about other types of bird experts and the way they work.
Written by today's experts for the experts of tomorrow, Eyewitness Experts are great big gift packs that blitz the top-selling topics children really love. Open them up and you'll find everything you need to nurture their interest, whether novice or nerd. These are gifts to treasure and return to and grow with.
Автор: Alan Knox and David T. Parkin
Издательство: Christopher Helm
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 1408125005
Количество страниц: 472
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland was written to update the British Ornithologists' Union's last full Checklist published under the same title as far back as 1971. Since then there have been remarkable changes in both distribution and abundance of the region's birds. Some species have become extinct as breeding birds, whereas others have colonised and even become quite common; many of our most familiar birds have suffered critical declines with changes in land use and climate. Dozens of new species have occurred as vagrants, and many previous vagrants now occur much more frequently. Furthermore, there has been a major revolution in bird taxonomy. The book summarises all these changes and gives an up-to-date account of the status of the birds in Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man. The book has been written by two former Chairmen of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee, and long-serving members of the BOU Taxonomic Sub-Committee.
Автор: Mark Ziembicki
Издательство: CSIRO Publishing
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0643096116
Количество страниц: 120
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The Australian bustard is Australia’s heaviest flying bird. It is an icon of the Australian outback where it is more commonly known as the bush or plains turkey. It is also culturally and spiritually significant to Aboriginal people, who prize it as a favorite bush tucker. This book provides the first complete overview of the biology of the Australian bustard. Based on the first major study of the species, the author explores the bustard’s ecology and behavior, its drastic decline since European settlement, and the conservation issues affecting it and its environment. Color photographs of juvenile and adult birds complement the text as well as showcase particular behaviors, such as the spectacular display routines of males when mating, which are unique among Australian birds. Australian Bustard is the perfect book for natural history enthusiasts.
Автор: George C. West, Carol A. Butler
Издательство: Rutgers University Press
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0813547385
Количество страниц: 208
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Hummingbirds may be the smallest birds in the world, but they have the biggest appetites. Their wings flutter on average fifty to eighty times each second as they visit hundreds of flowers over the course of a day to sip the sweet nectar that sustains them. Their hearts beat nearly twelve hundred times a minute and their rapid breathing allows these amazing birds to sustain their unique manner of flight. They can hover in the air for prolonged periods, fly backwards using forceful wings that swivel at the shoulder, and dive at nearly two hundred miles per hour. Native only to the Americas, some hummingbirds have been known to migrate from Mexico to Alaska in the course of a season. Watching a hummingbird at a backyard feeder, we only see its glittering iridescent plumage and its long, narrow beak; its rapidly moving wings are a blur to our eyes.
Автор: D. Charles Deeming, Mark W. J. Ferguson
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 1992
isbn: 0521390710
Количество страниц: 462
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
A recent rapid expansion in our knowledge of embryonic development in birds and reptiles has created a need for a book that comprehensively reviews and synthesizes data relating to incubation effects on the embryonic development of these two vertebrate classes. The contributors to this book aptly deal with these issues in logical parts. The first deals with the structure, shape, and function of eggs. The second examines the effects of the four main parameters, e.g. temperature, water relations, respiratory gas exchange, and turning, on the process of incubation. The third section deals with early embryonic development and the methods used to investigate and manipulate the embryo. Further chapters deal with estivation, megapodes, and oviparity.