The Whooper Swan

Author : Mark Brazil
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408128671

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The Whooper Swan by Mark Brazil Pdf

This is the first ever monograph on the Whooper Swan. This species is found in the northern Palearctic and is the world's most widely distributed swan. It is a familiar bird in northern Europe and across Asia to the far East, and is particularly noticeable when migrating between breeding and wintering grounds in large, noisy flocks. This migratory behaviour makes it a powerful symbol of seasonal change, and this, together with the bird's beautiful appearance, make it a popular subject of folklore and legend. For much of its range the Whooper Swan is the archetypal 'wild swan', and its voice and appearance is deeply evocative of time and place. This book looks at all aspects of the life and times of this enchanting bird. The book includes chapters on taxonomy, population, range and distribution, diet, breeding biology, behaviour, migratory behaviour and longevity, as well as taking a look at the swan's associations with our own species in history and legend and throughout its geographic range. This book is a brilliantly readable and exhaustively researched monograph. It is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs and line drawings, illustrating various aspects of the species' behaviour and morphology. It will appeal greatly to all those with an interest in birdwatching, especially those who already know something of this wonderful and inspirational bird.

Author : Brazil
Publisher : T. & A. D. Poyser
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0856611298

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Whooper Swan by Brazil Pdf

Author : Gill Lewis
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781800900301

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Swan Song by Gill Lewis Pdf

Dylan is struggling but when he's out on the water with his Grandad his mind clears and everything seems simpler. But his Grandad's beloved Whooper swans are under threat and it feels like everything that has made him feel safe is slipping away ... A profoundly moving novel on the redemptive, healing power of nature from bestseller Gill Lewis.

Author : Paul Johnsgard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781609621711

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The North American Swans: Their Biology and Conservation by Paul Johnsgard Pdf

Among birds, swans are relatively long-lived species and are also among the most strongly monogamous, having prolonged pair and family bonds that strongly influence their reproductive and general social behavior, which, in combination with their beauty and elegance, contribute to the overall high degree of worldwide human interest in them. This volume of more than 59,000 words describes the distributions, ecology, social behavior, and breeding biologies of the four species of swans that breed or have historically bred in North America, including the native trumpeter and tundra swans, the introduced mute swan, and the marginally occurring whooper swan. Also included are 5 distribution maps, 15 drawings, 27 photographs by the author, and a reference section of nearly 1,000 literature citations.

Author : Lucy Christopher
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545317719

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Flyaway by Lucy Christopher Pdf

While her father is in the hospital, 13-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.

Author : Alice L. Price
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0933031815

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Swans of the World by Alice L. Price Pdf

Fully illustrated with swans of legend, art, nature and the imagination, Swans of the World is a treasury and a treasure as well.

Author : Sylvia Bruce Wilmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090263066

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Swans of the World by Sylvia Bruce Wilmore Pdf

Author : Jake McGowan-Lowe
Publisher : Ticktock Books, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1848988524

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Jake's Bones by Jake McGowan-Lowe Pdf

Jake McGowan-Lowe is a boy with a very unusual hobby. Since the age of 7, he has been photographing and blogging about his incredible finds and now has a worldwide following, including 100,000 visitors from the US and Canada. Follow Jake as he explores the animal world through this new 64-page book. He takes you on a world wide journey of his own collection, and introduces you to other amazing animals from the four corners of the globe. Find out what a cow's tooth, a rabbit's rib and a duck's quack look like and much, much more besides.

Author : Jean Jamieson
Publisher : Novel Units, Incorporated
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000049199628

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The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White by Jean Jamieson Pdf

New ways to teach reading, writing and the love of literature.

Author : William Henry Hudson,Frank Evers Beddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Birds
ISBN : CHI:086859657

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British Birds by William Henry Hudson,Frank Evers Beddard Pdf

Author : Michael Longley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473546387

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Angel Hill by Michael Longley Pdf

A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the Year Winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize A remote townland in County Mayo, Carrigskeewaun has been for nearly fifty years Michael Longley’s home-from-home, his soul-landscape. Its lakes and mountains, wild animals and flowers, its moody seas and skies have for decades lit up his poetry. Now they overflow into Angel Hill, his exuberant new collection. In addition, Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family. She has opened up for him her own soul-landscape with its peculiar shapes and intense colours. In Angel Hill the imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap. Love poems and elegies and heart-rending reflections on the Great War and the Northern Irish Troubles add further weight to Michael Longley’s outstanding eleventh collection. Angel Hill will undoubtedly delight this great poet’s many admirers.

Author : Janet Kear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anseriformes
ISBN : 0198610084

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Ducks, Geese and Swans by Janet Kear Pdf

"Wildfowl and screamers belong to a highly diverse family of birds, confined to watery habitats. They are amongst the most attractive of birds and are very well-known to man, who has domesticated them, used their feathers for warm clothing and ornamentation, admired their flight, courtship and migration, caught them for food, maintained them in captivity for pleasure, and written about their doings in delightful children's stories, from Mother Goose to Jemima Puddleduck and Donald Duck. They occur throughout the world except Antarctica. Some are faithful to the same partner for life, others for only the few minutes of copulation. In some species, male and female make devoted parents, and yet there is one within the group whose female lays her eggs in the nests of others and never incubates. Diving as a method of obtaining food has evolved many times within the family. Most nest in the open but others in the tree-hole nests of woodpeckers and some in the ground burrows of rabbits or aardvarks. They may be highly social or solitary, defending a large territory." -- publisher website.

Author : Jim Crumley
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1860465587

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The Company of Swans by Jim Crumley Pdf

With The Company of Swans, Jim Crumley has ensured that there will be a more enduring monument to the life of this swan, and of all swans, than the pile of white feathers. Crumley watches, year in and year out, as a pair of mute swans struggle, against the odds, to raise their young on a wild patch of loch. But the pen starts to rose her eggs to predators and the cob begins to disappear for longer and longer periods. One day a third swan, younger and stronger than the first pen, appears at the other end of the loch. This beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to one swan whose silent tragedy he watched from one season to the next.

Author : Art Wolfe
Publisher : Mandala Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1683831314

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Earth Is My Witness by Art Wolfe Pdf

Art Wolfe’s definitive opus, Earth Is My Witness represents forty years of expeditionary photography. For the first time, Wolfe presents the three subjects at the heart of his work—landscapes, wildlife, and cultures on the edge of extinction—in a single masterpiece that takes us through the world’s ecosystems and geographical regions in a vivid display of the fragility and interconnectivity of life on Earth, while simultaneously exploring his evolution as an artist and the techniques he uses to capture the nuances and rhythms of nature. Earth Is My Witness is the most extensive collection of Art Wolfe photography ever compiled. This lavishly produced work spans the globe, bringing the beauty of the planet’s fast-disappearing landscapes, wildlife, and cultures into stunning focus. Containing unpublished work from throughout Wolfe’s widely celebrated career, Earth Is My Witness offers a riveting and comprehensive look at the world’s ecosystems and geographical regions. Here Wolfe presents an encyclopedic selection of his photography along with intimate stories that exemplify his boundless curiosity. From the rich sights and smells of the Pushkar Camel Fair to the exact moment when a polar bear and her cubs leave their Arctic den, these images represent what Wolfe has lived for: moments when circumstance, light, and subject miraculously collide to form an iconic image. These photographs and the stories behind them explore the delicate interconnectivity of life across our planet. Setting the stage for this fascinating journey is award-winning author Wade Davis. Together, photographer and author present a world that borders on the fantastic but is all the more precious for its fragility. At the heart of Wolfe’s work is the appeal for environmental, cultural, and wildlife preservation, which he makes with beautiful, far-reaching precision in this definitive opus.

Author : Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Game and game-birds
ISBN : PRNC:32101064794777

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Letters to Young Shooters by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey Pdf