Taxonomy of the birds of the world
Taxonomy of the birds of the world

Author: fotolulu

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 701

ISBN-13: 3748165692

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How do you come up with the idea to list all the birds in the world including the subspecies and to give all birds English names? There is a reason for it - my favorite saying, whose author is unknown: "Everyone said that ́s not possible - then there was one who did not know that and just did it!" I am an animal photographer and probably a little bit crazy. Ive built a complete animal database for mammals and birds over the last decade. This facilitates my work in determining and archiving images and assigning keywords, especially among the many subspecies. With this book, I would like to give all birding friends and ornithologists a complete overview in English. For this I have given unique English names to all subspecies. The naming should not meet any scientific requirements. The names are based on translations from the Latin name, geographical distribution areas and the names of the discoverers. The entries consist of the scientific name, the English name, the distribution areas and the author. I wish you a lot of fun with this book, but especially while watching the fascinating birdlife. fotolulu

The Complete Birds of the World
The Complete Birds of the World

Author: Norman Arlott

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0691193924

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"This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than 10,700 species by some of the world's best bird artists, led by the legendary Norman Arlott and Ber van Perlo. In addition, The Complete Birds of the World provides detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages--including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution. The result is a visual and verbal feast that captures the astonishing variety of bird life around the planet--and that will be cherished by any birder." -- Amazon.

The Cuckoos
The Cuckoos

Author: Robert B. Payne

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-07-14

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780191513558

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The cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behavior and parental care: a few cuckoos are among the most social of all birds and rear their young in a common nest; most cuckoos are caring parents that rear their own young with some females laying a few eggs in the nests of others; while many cuckoo species are brood parasites who leave their eggs in the nests of other birds to rear, with their young maturing to kill their foster nestmates. In The Cuckoos, Robert B. Payne presents a new evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses the family tree to explore the origins and diversity of their behaviour. He traces details of the cuckoos' biology to their original sources, includes descriptions of previously unpublished field observations, and reveals new comparisons of songs showing previously overlooked cuckoo species. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned colour plates and numerous maps, halftones, and line drawings, The Cuckoos provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of this family yet available.

Cheats and Deceits
Cheats and Deceits

Author: Martin Stevens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0191017604

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In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive potential mates for reproduction. Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their host's own clutch. Harmless butterflies mimic the wing patterning of a poisonous butterfly to avoid being eaten. The deep-sea angler fish hangs a glowing, fleshy lure in front of its mouth to draw the attention of potential prey, while some male fish alter their appearance to look like females in order to sneak past rivals in mating. Some orchids develop the smell of female insects in order to attract pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death with colourful displays. In this book, Martin Stevens describes the remarkable range of such adaptations in nature, and considers how they have evolved, and become increasingly perfected as part of an arms race between predator and prey or host and parasite. He explores the work of naturalists and biologists from Alfred Russel Wallace to current research, showing how scientists find ways of testing the impact of particular behaviours and colourings on the animals it is meant to fool, as opposed to our human perceptions. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Stevens considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.

Mobile HTML5
Mobile HTML5

Author: Estelle Weyl

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2013-11-13

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1491948884

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Build kickass websites and applications for all mobile (and non-mobile) platforms by adding HTML5 and CSS3 to your web development toolkit. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to develop web apps that not only work on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone, but also perform well and provide good user experience. With lots of code and markup examples, you’ll learn best practices for using HTML5 features, including new web forms, SVG, Canvas, localStorage, and related APIs. You’ll also get an in-depth look at CSS3, and discover how to design apps for large monitors and tiny screens alike. Learn HTML5’s elements, syntax, and semantics Build forms that provide enhanced usability with less JavaScript Explore HTML5 media APIs for graphics, video, and audio Enable your applications to work offline, using AppCache, localStorage, and other APIs Learn what you need to know about CSS3 selectors and syntax Dive into CSS3 features such as multiple backgrounds, gradients, border-images, transitions, transforms, and animations Make your web applications usable, responsive, and accessible. Design for performance, user experience, and reliability on all platforms

An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology
An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology

Author: Nicholas B. Davies

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-17

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1444398466

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This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In this fourth edition the text has been completely revised, with new chapters and many new illustrations and full colour photographs. The theme, once again, is the influence of natural selection on behaviour – an animal's struggle to survive and reproduce by exploiting and competing for resources, avoiding predators, selecting mates and caring for offspring, – and how animal societies reflect both cooperation and conflict among individuals. Stuart A. West has joined as a co-author bringing his own perspectives and work on microbial systems into the book. Written in the same engaging and lucid style as the previous editions, the authors explain the latest theoretical ideas using examples from micro-organisms, invertebrates and vertebrates. There are boxed sections for some topics and marginal notes help guide the reader. The book is essential reading for students of behavioural ecology, animal behaviour and evolutionary biology. Key Features: Long-awaited new edition of a field-defining textbook New chapters, illustrations and colour photographs New co-author Focuses on the influence of natural selection on behavior, and how animal societies reflect both cooperation and conflict among individuals “The long-awaited update to a classic in this field is now here, presenting new directions in thinking and addressing burning questions. Richly informed by progress in many other disciplines, such as sensory physiology, genetics and evolutionary theory, it marks the emergence of behavioural ecology as a fully fledged discipline..... This is a marvellous book, written in a lucid style. A must-read for those in the field, it is also a cornucopia of new thinking for anyone interested in evolution and behaviour.” Manfred Milinski, Nature, 2012

CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses
CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses

Author: John B. Dunning Jr.

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-12-05

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1420064452

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See what's new in the Second Edition: Number of species included is increased from 6300 to over 8700, about 85% of the world's birds Better data for many of the species included in the first edition- an exhaustive compilation of new data publis

Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World
Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World

Author: Eugene M. McCarthy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 0195183231

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With more than 5,000 works cited, Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World is the greatest compendium of information ever published on hybridization in birds. Worldwide in scope, it provides information on all reported avian crosses, not only those occurring in captivity, but also in a natural setting (approximately 4,000 crosses are covered). This book is a basic reference, intended both for the serious birder and the professional biologist. McCarthy's work fills a need for reference material that takes into account the last half century of data. It will be of interest to workers in a wide variety of fields, ranging from animal behavior to genetics, ecology, zoology, and systematics. In fact, it will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in birds and the natural world.

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India

Author: Bikram Grewal

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780691114965

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This thorough photographic guide to the birds of India and the Indian Subcontinent, includes Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

Moonless Moonlight
Moonless Moonlight

Author: Arindam Nath

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1638065853

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Moonless Moonlight' is a fiction in the form of a fable comprised of nineteen chapters that takes on issues related to the Covid pandemic. Each chapter introduces a narrator, portrayed through birds, fish, reptiles, and four-legged forest denizens. From the Bear to the Koel to the Tiger and the Whale, and many others present in the nocturnal meeting held under a gigantic banyan tree in a moonlit forest of the melancholic world threatened by a bleak future and tomorrow-less today. The story deals with matters that affect all of mankind and portrays almost every available information about Covid 19 and the Corona Virus, about the probable causes and the probable cures, about lifestyle, and in the process, through the eyes of these remarkable characters author tells us, through philosophy, through India’s great sages, poets and thinkers, and as humbly as possible, what Nature expects from us, humans. There is a sophistication of thought here, a gentle turn and dignity not usually found in most fiction nowadays.