Cloé Fraigneau

Feathers (eBook, PDF)

An Identification Guide to the Feathers of Western European Birds

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive guide to the feathers of European birds.

This guide to the feathers of Europe's birds presents a novel and innovative method to recognise the feathers of Europe's birds. Covering over 400 species, an innovative key allows for exceptionally precise identification by colour as well feather structure and shape.

Collection and conservation methods, locations of feathers on the bird, and identification and description of the feathers of species are clearly explained and richly illustrated, with more than 400 photographs. The large format of the book allows feathers to be shown in great detail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472971715
• Artikelnr.: 63037076

Autorenporträt

Cloé Fraigneau is an ornithologist who works for the Éducation et Recherche sur les Oiseaux et la Nature (Education and Research on Birds and Nature) association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Collecting methods, conservation and identification 2.
Factors useful for identification 3. Determining the location of a feather
on a bird 4. Flight and tail feather shapes and adaptations 5. Keys to
flight and tail feather determination 6. Some examples of identifiable body
feathers 7. Exercise in the identification of some feathers of common
species 8. Species descriptions Appendices