Birds of the United Arab Emirates
Birds of the United Arab Emirates

Author: Simon Aspinall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1472986180

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This is the first dedicated field guide for the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is an increasingly popular tourist destination, with a good infrastructure for visitors. This new field guide is based on the bestselling Birds of the Middle East (2nd edition) and covers all the birds of these Gulf states. The new text written by Simon Aspinall and Richard Porter is specific to the Gulf, and new maps are provided for all breeding birds and regular visitors. The plates are recomposed from Birds of the Middle East, with three extra plates of introduced species.

Natural Emirates
Natural Emirates

Author:

Publisher: Trident Press Ltd

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1900724022

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This text describes the natural environment and wildlife of the United Arab Emirates. It features the contributions of 14 experts, covering topics such as: Miocene fossils; UAE rock formations; conservation; plants; insects; reptiles; birds; mammals; marine life; and the bedouins' relationship with nature.

Birds of the Middle East
Birds of the Middle East

Author: Jens Eriksen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1472993071

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The Middle East has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic and sometimes colourful breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else. The perfect companion for any wildlife-friendly visitor, Birds of the Middle East provides photographic coverage of more than 320 species that regularly occur in the region. Concise text for each species includes information on identification, songs and calls, behaviour, distribution and habitat, with each photo having been carefully selected to guide identification. A guide to the best birdwatching sites in the Middle East is also included. Portable yet authoritative, this is the perfect guide for travellers and birdwatchers visiting this spectacular and bird-rich slice of western Asia.

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

Author: Ibrahim Abed

Publisher: Trident Press Ltd

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781900724470

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An authoritative and wide-ranging book uncovering the rich heritage of the United Arab Emirates, its political renaissance and its modern transformation into one of the most developed nations in the world.

Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

Author: Walter D. Koenig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04-22

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521530996

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Cooperative breeders are species in which more than a pair of individuals assist in the production of young. Cooperative breeding is found in only a few hundred bird species world-wide, and understanding this often strikingly altruistic behaviour has remained an important challenge in behavioural ecology for over 30 years. This book highlights the theoretical, empirical and technical advances that have taken place in the field of cooperative breeding research since the publication of the seminal work Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long-term Studies of Behavior and Ecology (1990, HB ISBN 0521 372984, PB ISBN 0521 378907). Organized conceptually, special attention is given to ways in which cooperative breeders have proved fertile subjects for testing modern advances to classic evolutionary problems including those of sexual selection, sex-ratio manipulation, life-history evolution, partitioning of reproduction and incest avoidance. It will be of interest to both students and researchers interested in behaviour and ecology.