Britain's Butterflies: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland - Fully Revised and Updated Third Edition (WILDGuides) - Softcover

Newland, David; Still, Robert; Swash, Andy; Tomlinson, David

 
9780691166438: Britain's Butterflies: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland - Fully Revised and Updated Third Edition (WILDGuides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691166439 ISBN 13: 9780691166438
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2015

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Britain's Butterflies is a comprehensive and beautifully designed photographic field guide to the butterflies of Britain and Ireland. Containing hundreds of stunning colour photographs, this revised and updated edition provides the latest information on every species ever recorded. It covers in detail the identification of all 59 butterfly species that breed regularly, as well as four former breeders, 10 rare migrants and one species of unknown status. The easy-to-use format will enable butterfly-watchers--beginners or experts--to identify any species they encounter. * Stunning colour plates show typical views of each butterfly species, including the various forms and aberrations* Detailed species profiles cover adult identification; behaviour; habitat requirements; population and conservation; egg, caterpillar and chrysalis; and status and distribution, including up-to-date maps* Photographs of egg, caterpillar and chrysalis for every breeding species* Sections on biology, where to look for and how to identify butterflies and other essential information

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Newland has been a butterfly enthusiast since boyhood. He is the author of Discover Butterflies in Britain and the coauthor of Britain's Day-flying Moths (both WILDGuides). Robert Still, the cofounder of WILDGuides, is an ecologist and graphic artist, and has designed more than thirty of its titles. Andy Swash, the managing director of WILDGuides, is an ecologist and wildlife photographer. Swash and Still are the coauthors of a number of books, including Britain's Habitats, Britain's Dragonflies, Britain's Day-flying Moths and Britain's Sea Mammals (all WILDGuides). David Tomlinson is a freelance writer on wildlife and the countryside, and first became interested in butterflies as a schoolboy in the early 1960s.

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"This beautifully produced book, rather than being just an identification guide, is more a reference work for both the enthusiastic amateur and the expert."--Anthony Toole

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691166439
ISBN 13 
9780691166438
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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