The Ancient Murrelet
A Natural History in the Queen Charlotte Islands
Breeding along the northern Pacific coast from British Columbia to Japan, this little known bird dwelt in relative obscurity until it became the focus of a conservation debate which has resulted in a new National Park in the Queen Charlotte Islands, where half the world's population breeds. It made the headlines again when a lost, lone bird suddenly appeared at Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, England, in May 1990 and again in April 1991. The Ancient Murrelet and its three congeners are unique amongst seabirds in that their young are entirely precocial, leaving the nest as soon as they hatch to grow up at sea. Tony Gaston has car…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Jones, Ian (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4081-3671-3
- EAN: 9781408136713
- Produktnummer: 13949221
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 267 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'915 KB
Über den Autor
Tony Gaston, D. Phil (Oxon), is a research scientist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, working on the conservation of marine and arctic birds. He specializes in studying birds in remote places; forest birds in India, pheasants in the Himalayas, Thick-billed Murres in the Arctic and the elusive Ancient Murrelet in the coastal rain-forests of British Columbia. In India he initiated the Himachal Wildlife Project, resulting in the establishment of the Great Himalaya National Park. He is married to Anjali, a well-known East Indian dancer. Their favourite pastime is watching night fall in places where there are no street lights.
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