The Goshawk
A large and spectacular bird of prey, the Goshawk lives in borealforests throughout the Northern hemisphere. A powerful hunter of largebirds and woodland mammals, it was persecuted for many years by gamekeepers to the point of extinction in the UK. However, escaped falconrybirds led to the establishment of a new population in the 1960s, thoughthe species remains rare and elusive - birders need a combination of hard work and a little luck to see this magnificent raptor. The Goshawk is an authoritative yet highly readable monograph ofthe species. It includes chapters on nomenclature, races and morphs,biometrics, nesting, incubation and chick-re…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4081-3329-3
- EAN: 9781408133293
- Produktnummer: 17006996
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'544 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 pp colour photographs
Über den Autor
After 40 years of fieldwork and publishing to inform and help ecologists, with interludes for wider technology transfer, Robert Kenward now chairs groups for the IUCN. He still enjoys work with raptors and engendering stakeholder-conservation networks for global and local cooperation.
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