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Author : Peter Goodfellow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691148496
Examines the nests that birds build around the world, including illustrations of each nest type's construction, descriptions of the materials and techniques used during the process, and case studies on specific birds' habitats.
Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : NYPL:33433011003872
Author : Peggy Macnamara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002768104
Influential American architect Philip Johnson once mused, "All architecture is shelter; all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space." But with just a small swap of a key word, Johnson could well have been describing animal nests. Birds and insects are nature's premier architects, using a dizzying array of talents to build functional homes in which to live, reproduce, and care for their young. Recycling sticks, branches, grass, and mud to construct their shelters, they are undoubtedly the originators of "green architecture." A visual celebration of these natural feats of engineering and ingenuity, Architecture by Birds and Insects allows readers a peek inside a wide range of nests, offering a rare opportunity to get a sense of the materials and methods used to build them. Here, we see the kinds of places where nests are built--for instance, the house wren has been known to occupy cow skulls, flower pots, tin cans, and the pockets of hanging laundry, while the uglynest caterpillar prefers rose bushes and cherry trees. Inspired by the vast nest collection at the Field Museum, which features specimens gathered throughout North and South America, Peggy Macnamara's paintings are enhanced by text written by museum curators. This narrative provides a foundation in natural history for each painting, as well as fascinating anecdotes about the nests and their builders. Like so many natural treasures, nests are easy to ignore. But Macnamara's gorgeous paintings will undoubtedly change that. Architecture by Birds and Insects at last gives the tiniest engineers their rightful moment in the spotlight, and in so doing increases awareness and encourages the protection of birds, insects, and their habitats. Readers will never look at a Frank Gehry design, or a treetop nest, the same way again.
Author : Peter Goodfellow
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Birds
ISBN : 190800584X
Avian Architecture includes intricate step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and insightful commentary by a leading expert. It illustrates how birds around the world design, engineer, and build their nests. It features architectural blueprints, step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and expert commentary. It includes 300 full-color images and covers more than 100 bird species worldwide.
Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:183088493
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Birds
ISBN : OCLC:31844905
Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCAL:B3103599
Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Birds
ISBN : BL:A0020422855
Author : Peter Goodfellow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780691255460
The essential illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nests--now fully revised and expanded Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions of the construction processes and engineering techniques birds use. This spectacularly illustrated book features more than 300 full-color images and more than 40 case studies that profile key species worldwide. Each chapter covers a different type of nest, from tunnel nests and mound nests to floating nests, hanging nests, woven nests, and even multiple-nest avian cities. Other kinds of avian construction--such as bowers and food stores--are also featured. Now with more case studies and an updated foreword, this revised and expanded edition includes intricate step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and insightful commentary by a leading expert. Illustrates how birds around the world design, engineer, and build their nests Features architectural blueprints, step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and expert commentary Includes more than 300 full-color images Covers more than 100 bird species worldwide
Author : Christine Sheppard,American Bird Conservancy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1495180395
Author : Timothy Beatley
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830477
How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are sickened by rat poison. These name just a few of the myriad hazards. How do our cities need to change in order to reduce the threats, often created unintentionally, that have resulted in nearly three billion birds lost in North America alone since the 1970s? In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Beatley shares empowering examples, including: advocates for “catios,” enclosed outdoor spaces that allow cats to enjoy backyards without being able to catch birds; a public relations campaign for vultures; and innovations in building design that balance aesthetics with preventing bird strikes. Through these changes and the others Beatley describes, it is possible to make our urban environments more welcoming to many bird species. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, with inspiring examples to draw from. Whether birds are migrating and need a temporary shelter or are taking up permanent residence in a backyard, when the environment is safer for birds, humans are happier as well.
Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : HARVARD:32044033513532
Author : Peter Goodfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Birds
ISBN : 6613831697
"Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions of the construction processes and engineering techniques birds use. This spectacularly illustrated book features 300 full-color images and more than 35 case studies that profile key species worldwide. Each chapter covers a different type of nest, from tunnel nests and mound nests to floating nests, hanging nests, woven nests, and even multiple-nest avian cities. Other kinds of avian construction--such as bowers and harvest wells--are also featured. Avian Architecture includes intricate step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and insightful commentary by a leading expert"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Mike Hansell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139429086
Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour provides a broad view of our understanding of the biology of the nests, bowers and tools made by birds. It illustrates how, among vertebrates, the building abilities of birds are more impressive and consistent than for any other builders other than ourselves, yet birds seem to require no special equipment, and use quite uncomplicated behaviour. In doing so, the book raises general issues in the field of behavioural ecology including the costs of reproduction, sexual selection and the organisation and complexity of behaviour. Written for students and researchers of animal behaviour, behavioural ecology and ornithology, it will nevertheless make fascinating reading for architects and engineers interested in understanding how structures are created by animals.
Author : James Rennie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0332043320
Excerpt from The Architecture of Birds: With Engravings In the account which the observant boy subjoins of his interesting ramble (the other had nothing to tell) over the heath and the meadows, it is remark able that Birds constitute more than two-thirds of his story. He saw a wheat-ear hopping about a pile of stones; a flock of lapwings throwing their fantastic somersets in the air, and one of them tumbling along as if her wing had been broken to lure him from her nest; he saw a king-fisher with its splendid plumage of green, orange, and blue, darting after fish in the brook, along the margin of which a family of sand pipers were hunting down aquatic insects, while some swallows which skimmed along on the wing were ready to dart u on the flies which escaped from these swift-footed pedhstrians; he saw bank-swallows bur rowing in the bank to shelter their nests from bad weather and worse enemies; he saw a heron take her patient stand at a bend of the river to watch for a passing fish, and, after a successful capture, fly 06' with her prey to her nest in the woods; and he saw a troop of starlings as numerous as a swarm of bees, the same phenomenon which nearly three thousand years before had afl'orded Homer a fine poetical for a heap of fugitive warriors. So it is, ' the narra tive concludes one man walks through the world with his eyes open, and another with them shut; and open this difference depends all the superiority. Of knowledge the one acquires above the other.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.