Wildlife of Southeast Asia (eBook)

Susan Myers (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8072-0 (ISBN)

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Susan Myers has led specialist birding tours in the Asian and Australasian region for more than fifteen years. She now works with WINGS Birding Tours, based in Arizona. Myers is the author of Birds of Borneo (Princeton).Susan Myers has led specialist birding tours in the Asian and Australasian region for more than fifteen years. She now works with WINGS Birding Tours, based in Arizona. Myers is the author of Birds of Borneo (Princeton).

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This handy photographic guide offers a stunning look at the wildlife of Southeast Asia, which includes Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, West Malaysia, and Singapore. Accessible text and more than 500 color photographs help readers to learn about and identify the most common species found in the region, particularly the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects that visitors will most likely encounter. Detailed photos are accompanied on facing pages by succinct species accounts highlighting key identification features, status, and distribution. The book's brief introduction offers readers useful information on major wildlife sites as well as practical advice on making the most of a wildlife-watching trip.Wildlife of Southeast Asia is the essential resource for visitors and residents interested in the fauna of this fascinating area of the world.A photographic guide to the wildlife of Southeast Asia, including Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, West Malaysia, and SingaporeMore than 500 stunning color photographsAccessible species accounts highlight key identification features, status, and distributionA brief introduction discusses wildlife locations and practical travel know-how

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Pocket Guides
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Pocket Guides
• Zusatzinfo: 520 color illus. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Abdomen • Asian Elephant • Asian openbill • Asian water monitor • beak • Bee-Eater • Bengal slow loris • bird • Black-naped oriole • Bristle • Broadbill • Cambodia • carapace • carnivore • Caterpillar • Common green magpie • Common greenshank • Common Kingfisher • Common redshank • Common sandpiper • Coppersmith barbet • Drongo • Dry season • Egret • evergreen forest • female • Flight feather • forest floor • Frugivore • fur • Gecko • Grassland • Greater racket-tailed drongo • Grey heron • gull • habitat destruction • Hawksbill sea turtle • Hemiptera • Heron • hornbill • insect • insectivore • Invertebrate • Iora • Jaw • Large woodshrike • Laughingthrush • Lesser adjutant • Little Egret • Macaque • Mammal • Mangrove • Marsh sandpiper • monsoon • myna • Northern Thailand • Nuthatch • paddy field • pangolin • Peninsular Malaysia • Pheasant-tailed jacana • plumage • Prinia • Rainforest • reticulated python • rodent • Scarlet-backed flowerpecker • Scarlet-rumped trogon • secondary forest • Sex • Sexual Dimorphism • Siamese fireback • Southeast Asia • Southern Thailand • Spiderhunter • Stork • Striated heron • Sultan tit • Sunbird • Supercilium • Tailorbird • Thailand • Tit (bird) • Tooth • Traditional medicine • Tree hollow • Trogon • Tropical rainforest • Vegetation • Venomous snake • Vertebrate • wader • Webbing • wetland • whimbrel • White-breasted waterhen • Wild boar • wildlife • woodpecker • Woolly-necked stork
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8072-6 / 1400880726
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8072-0 / 9781400880720