A Vulture Landscape Twelve Months in Extremadura

Name: A Vulture Landscape
Author: Ian Parsons

Auteur: Ian Parsons

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Ian Parsons

Engels
Paperback
9781849954570
26 juni 2020
192 pagina's

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A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain. There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns. Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the author takes the reader on a journey, introducing readers to the vultures, their lives and their landscape. Along the way, much of the other wonderful wildlife of the vulture landscape, from exotic Bee-eaters and bewitching Montagu's Harriers to rutting Red Stags as well as some very excitable cattle, are included. Ian explains how watching vultures is not only addictive, but that it can often lead to vulture gazing, surely the most relaxing form of bird watching there is! With his fine descriptions, readers can enter the world of the vulture, get to know these brilliant birds and learn how they control diseases that threaten us, why some species have bald necks, as well as how they have mastered the art of flying without expending any energy. The author has spent several years living permanently in Extremadura and now splits his time between his native county of Devon and his beloved vulture landscape, where he leads bird tours introducing people to the birds and the area he clearly loves.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 juni 2020
Aantal pagina's: 192
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Ian Parsons
Hoofduitgeverij: Whittles Publishing

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 208 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm
Verpakking lengte: 258 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 491 g

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EAN: 9781849954570

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Taal: Engels
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