Die Steuerfedern der Vogel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe
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"Die Steuerfedern der Vogel Mitteleuropas / The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe" is a potential new classic of ornithology in the making. The author Wilfried Hansen, together with his co-author Dr Jurgen Synnatzschke and a large number of scientific collaborators, spent over 40 years producing this historic work. So far this information was scattered in 11 separate issues of the scientific journal Beitrage zur Naturkunde Niedersachsen, most of which are now out of print, and was only accessible to a small number of experts. These scattered issues have now been revised, updated with extensive new data and united into a single book. Books with detailed descriptions of feathers are rare. No other treatise on feathers contains such a wealth of scientific information. In addition to identification keys for all species and precise data on the tail feathers (rectrices), "The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe" also contains measurement tables for the wing feathers.
Due to the excellent drawings, in which the identifying characters of the tail feathers of more than 300 bird species are described, and the extremely detailed descriptions, this impressive work was praised by Professor Urs N. Glutz von Blotzheim, who wrote the preface, as "the most useful instrument for the identification of pluckings that exists so far". "The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe" includes over 600 measurement tables (for some species with over 1,000 measurements), and 322 ink drawings in black and white. Each species account is structured into identifying characters, distinguishing features from similar species, detailed description of colouration, shape, length distribution of the individual feathers and characteristics of sexing and ageing. It is an English summary as well as English explanations for all images and tables make "The Tail Feathers of the Birds of Central Europe" accessible to an international public.
Originally, Wilfried Hansen wanted to study biology and become a forest ranger, but because of the difficult economic situation after the second world war, he could not fulfil his desire. However, he was fortunate to get to know a personal mentor in the field of biology who taught him a lot of what he could have learnt at university. This personal mentor of Wilfried Hansen was Dr. Hugo Weigold, the founder of the world-renowned ornithological station of Heligoland and Director of the Natural History Museum in Hanover. It was Dr. Hugo Weigold who advised him to build up a feather collection, and to use this collection not as an end in itself, but primarily for scientific research, which then gave rise to this teatise. In 1972, Wilfried Hansen established the Feather Research Group, which has grown into the largest scientific working group in the field of feather research in the world today. Co-author Dr. Jurgen Synnatzschke grew up in a village in former East Germany, where he was shaped by all kinds of day-to-day necessities in his parents' household, contact with local ornithologists and work as a lumberjack. A sudden turn in his life led him to study mathematics in Russia, where he did his Ph.D., and subsequently worked for the scientific journal 'Zeitschrift fur Analysis und ihre Anwendungen'. As co-author of this book, he contributed significantly to its success. He invested as much as he could into the texts. However, the actual concept of the book, the identification key, which forms its intellectual core, the measurement tables and almost all drawings, are the sole merit of Wilfried Hansen. Therefore, Dr. Synnatzschke believes that Wilfried Hansen deserves an honorary Ph.D. for his scientific achievement.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.6.2015 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 322 b/w illustrations, 600+ tables |
| Sprache | deutsch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4992-8021-1 / 1499280211 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4992-8021-0 / 9781499280210 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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