Marianne Taylor

RSPB Spotlight Ducks and Geese (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

RSPB Spotlight: Ducks and Geese is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.

This is a detailed 'biography' of ducks and geese that breed in or regularly visit the UK - covering 30 species in all. It will include chapters on the evolution of ducks and geese, their place in the natural world, their anatomy and physiology, various feeding methods, spectacular courtship displays and diverse breeding behaviour.

Marianne Taylor reveals their often epic migrations and examine their social interactions with their own and other species, including their unusual readiness to hybridise. She also details their relationships with humankind over the centuries, including their presence in folklore and literature and their role in our lives as both prey and pets.

She explores their presence as feral and sometimes invasive species outside their natural ranges, and their current status within their native wild ranges as the group includes several species recently recognised as being of global conservation concern.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472971661
• Artikelnr.: 59203443

Autorenporträt

Marianne Taylor is a life-long wildlife-watcher who lives by the sea in south-east Kent, UK. Since 2007 she has worked as a freelance writer, photographer and illustrator, focusing on wildlife and nature and, particularly, British birds. Her books include RSPB Pocket guide to British Birds, RSPB Garden Birds, The Way of the Hare and Dragonflight. She has a particular fondness for seabirds (even gulls) and is also a keen year-round sea-swimmer, at home and in other locations around the UK coast. Because of this, she has impressive tolerance to cold, a large collection of neoprene gloves and socks, and permanently messy hair.

Inhaltsangabe

Meet the Ducks and Geese
Evolution and Adaptation
Breeding
Diet and Feeding
Social Life
Migration
Threats and Conservation
Wildfowl and People
Watching Ducks and Geese
Glossary
Further Reading and Resources
Acknowledgements
Image Credits
Index