Avian Architecture (eBook)

How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build

Peter Goodfellow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3831-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nestsBirds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions of the construction processes and engineering techniques birds use. This spectacularly illustrated book features 300 full-color images and more than 35 case studies that profile key species worldwide. Each chapter covers a different type of nest, from tunnel nests and mound nests to floating nests, hanging nests, woven nests, and even multiple-nest avian cities. Other kinds of avian constructionsuch as bowers and harvest wellsare also featured.Avian Architecture includes intricate step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and insightful commentary by a leading expert.Illustrates how birds around the world design, engineer, and build their nestsFeatures architectural blueprints, step-by-step sequences, visual spreads on nest-building materials and methods, and expert commentaryIncludes 300 full-color imagesCovers more than 100 bird species worldwide

Autor

Peter Goodfellow is a retired English teacher and lifelong birdwatcher. His books include Birds as Builders and A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Britain and Northern Europe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 300 color illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Acorn woodpecker • American flamingo • American Robin • arctic tern • baltimore oriole • Barn Swallow • Bee-Eater • bird • Bird nest • Black wheatear • bowerbird • Breeding pair • Brood (honey bee) • Burrowing Owl • Carrion crow • Case study • Columbidae • Common chaffinch • Common eider • Common tailorbird • Common wood pigeon • Corvidae • courtship • cowbird • Edible bird's nest • Edible-nest swiftlet • Editing • Egg as food • Eurasian bittern • European bee-eater • European robin • Ficus • firewood • Fledge • Flight feather • Food storage • Galliformes • Goose • grackle • Granary • great tit • Hamerkop • Hanging (meat) • honeyeater • hornbill • Horned coot • House sparrow • hummingbird • Icterid • Illustration • infestation • insect • killdeer • Leaf warbler • Lyrebird • Magpie goose • Magpie-lark • Malleefowl • Mammal • Mangrove • mating • Megapode • Monk parakeet • Nest • nest box • Old World warbler • Opuntia • Oropendola • Ovenbird (family) • Parakeet • parasitism • Passerine • plumage • Precocial • predation • Rainforest • Ruby-throated Hummingbird • sapsucker • Satin bowerbird • Shrub • songbird • Song Thrush • Sparrow • Spider silk • spider web • Stork • Swiftlet • Tailorbird • Tit (bird) • Tooth-billed bowerbird • Trogon • Vegetation • Vogelkop bowerbird • wader • warbler • Western rock nuthatch • White stork • Winter wren • woodpecker • Wood warbler
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3831-2 / 1400838312
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3831-8 / 9781400838318