Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands : A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay

John C. Dyes

ISBN 10: 0292729731 / ISBN 13: 9780292729735

Edité par University Of Texas Press, 2011

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Every year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds-human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats.John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on the Texas Coast, and, in Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands, he presents a year in the birds' life through fine photographs and an evocative and informative text. In a month-by-month account, he follows the annual rituals and daily dramas of courtship, mating, and chick rearing among herons, egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, ibises, and other birds that migrate and gather in colonies ranging from half a dozen birds to tens of thousands.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands : A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay
• Éditeur: University Of Texas Press
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0292729731
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780292729735
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 9 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 9 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 248 grammes

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Synopsis

Every year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds-human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats.

John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on the Texas Coast, and, in Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands, he presents a year in the birds' life through fine photographs and an evocative and informative text. In a month-by-month account, he follows the annual rituals and daily dramas of courtship, mating, and chick rearing among herons, egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, ibises, and other birds that migrate and gather in colonies ranging from half a dozen birds to tens of thousands.

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After retiring from a career as a technical services engineer with Marathon Oil Company, John C. Dyes became a freelance photographer, birder, and writer who specialized in avian photography.