Nick Baker

RSPB Nature Tracker's Handbook (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

RSPB The Nature Tracker's Handbook is a complete guide to how to interpret the signs that animals leave behind.

The art of nature tracking is very much like learning to read, but instead of reading words the tracker reads traces. Every animal leaves different traces as it goes about its everyday business. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth, you will soon be able to tell the story of an animal's life, packed with fascinating details and hidden meanings.

The RSPB Nature Tracker's Handbook explains with extensive photography and detailed diagrams how to find and interpret the evidence that animals leave behind - from a pile of mangled feathers to a delicately nibbled mushroom. Nick Baker also demonstrates useful tracker activities, such as how to mount a discarded nymph skin and how to dissect an owl's pellet to reveal its last meal.

There's a nature detective in all of us, so get out there and get tracking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472932556
• Artikelnr.: 44186002

Autorenporträt

Nick Baker has presented a number of wildlife programmes including The Really Wild Show, Weird Creatures with Nick Baker and more recently Springwatch and Autumnwatch. Nick Baker's Beautiful Freaks was one of the first presenter-led 3D programmes in the UK. He has also written a number of well-received books, including Nick Baker's Bug Book and The New Amateur Naturalist. He lives in Devon with Dartmoor on his doorstep and is Vice President of Buglife.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Tracker's kitbag and Technological tracker
2 Tracks and trails
3 Signs of feeding activity
4 Nests
5 Whose hole?
6 The pleasures of poo
7 Pellets
8 Dead things
9 Remains and natural objects
References
Index