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Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Since it was first published a decade ago, Birds of Europe has become the definitive field guide to the diverse birdlife found in Europe. Now this superb guide has been brought fully up to date with revised text and maps along with added illustrations. Uniquely designed for easy use in the field, this expanded edition covers all 772 species found in the region as well as 32 introduced species or variants and 118 very rare visitors. Detailed species...
13) Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers 630 species, presents all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and Canada as far east as the Great Plains, illustrates important visual details with range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each native species; gives scientific and common names, taxonomy, information on the most recently naturalized species, and also contains a key to leaves, an introduction to tree identification, forest ecology,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures. This book presents such a wealth of new information about...
Author
Series
Princeton field guides volume 154
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Of the more than 49,000 species of spider worldwide, some 4,000 are in North America. Spiders of North America explores more than 500 of the most common and interesting spiders found in this region of the world. This richly illustrated guide begins with an overview of spiders--what they are exactly, how they can be found, how they develop, and why they are important. The book features information on all the major spider guilds: sensing web weavers,...