Island Wildlife
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Kodiak Island Wildlife
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Author : Robin Barefield
language : en
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Release Date : 2021-04-15
Kodiak Island Wildlife written by Robin Barefield and has been published by Publication Consultants this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with Science categories.
Kodiak Island, nicknamed the Emerald Isle, gleams like a gem in the North Pacific. Lush green mountains soar skyward from the ocean, framing deep, fjord-like bays. The island's wet maritime climate and mild temperatures encourage thick vegetation growth, which provides sustenance for the abundant wildlife on the island. The Alaska Current flows northward near Kodiak, bringing warm water and nutrients to Alaska's frigid Gulf. These nutrients form the basis for one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world. Kodiak bears reign as the island's monarchs, which has among the densest brown bear populations on earth. They are one of the six endemic mammals found on Kodiak, while humans have introduced many other wild mammals to the Kodiak Archipelago. The ocean surrounding Kodiak teems with seals, sea otters, sea lions, porpoises, and whales, while bald eagles, puffins, rare black oystercatchers, and arctic terns (which migrate all the way from Antarctica) also call the archipelago home. Learn more about this beautiful North Pacific gem and its amazing wildlife—and the challenges the animals face, both human and natural—in this richly detailed book by local naturalist, wildlife biologist, and sportfishing guide Robin Barefield, with photographs by her husband, Mike Munsey.
Wildlife On Coal Island
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Author : Shivani Sivagurunathan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2012-07-18
Wildlife On Coal Island written by Shivani Sivagurunathan and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-18 with Fiction categories.
The eleven stories in Wildlife on Coal Island are set on a fictional island located in present-day Malaysia. Coal Island is a place of secrets, gossip and murder. Peopled with characters that simultaneously laugh at life and are broken by it, it is a petri dish for experiments with the darkness that sometimes enters ordinary days and the surprising clarity that comes after suffering. The humans and animals here will linger in your head as you go about your daily chores: an ageing Chinese opera singer and her pet monkey; a self-proclaimed psychic who is convinced that a tsunami is coming; a murderer who finds worldly wisdom in a wandering Malayan tapir; an ex-colonial plantation overseer, battling with the literal and lateral python of his past; an obese supermarket matriarch who talks to bats.
Rat Island
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Author : William Stolzenburg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-11
Rat Island written by William Stolzenburg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with Nature categories.
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive - and massively controversial - wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators: rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.
Island Wildlife
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Author : Robert Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Aignos Publishing | Savant Books & Publications (pub-0630497708912900)
Release Date : 2018-03-02
Island Wildlife written by Robert Friedman and has been published by Aignos Publishing | Savant Books & Publications (pub-0630497708912900) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-02 with Fiction categories.
The book is composed of interconnected stories about denizens of a beachfront guesthouse in Puerto Rico, circa 1987. The mostly off-beat characters who pass through the doors of the Solimar Guesthouse are trying to straighten out off-kilter lives; each has a unique story to tell about love, sexuality, survival. Island Wildlife looks with a canny, darkly humorous eye at the struggling humanity of its characters, while also exploring the Puerto-Rico/U.S. relationship, Cuban exile politics, and how the personal and political interrelate.
Wildlife Of Robben Island
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Author : R. J. M. Crawford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Wildlife Of Robben Island written by R. J. M. Crawford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Zoology categories.
Wildlife Of The Islands
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Author : William Hopkins Amos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Wildlife Of The Islands written by William Hopkins Amos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biodiversity categories.
This fascinating text and many exquisite color photographs reveal the mystery of islands: Pacific islands - low coral atolls with azure lagoons, or green forested islands whose mountain pinnacles are lost in the low-flying clouds of trade winds. We are transported from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean; from the forbidding cliffs of Bonaventure Island, where hundreds of thousands of northern gannets nest on rocky ledges, to the ice-locked Antarctic, where emperor penguins nest in the dead of winter.
Wildlife Of The Islands
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Author : William Hopkins Amos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980-04-01
Wildlife Of The Islands written by William Hopkins Amos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-04-01 with Science categories.
Profuse color photographs illustrate the unusual plants and animals that have characteristically developed on islands around the world, from Australia and Japan to tiny islands in the Pacific
Wild Island
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Author : Jane Smith
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2016-03-15
Wild Island written by Jane Smith and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-15 with Art categories.
This is a book for anyone interested in wildlife, for art lovers, for tourists wanting a memento of their holiday, for everyone who loves the west coast of Scotland. It depicts a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife, and follows artist Jane Smith, as she attempts to portray the interactions of wildlife, farm animals and human inhabitants. A humorous, first-hand, personal view of island life, both human and otherwise, and is illustrated with Jane Smith's vibrant and acutely observed sketches, paintings and prints.Themes include:The trials of a wildlife artist - what does it feel like to sit in a bog all day? What is screen printing? Where are a bird's knees? Why does Jane always get covered in acrylic paint? Natural history - from otters to oil beetles, this book is full of wild encounters.Conservation management - sounds boring? Think of it more as 'how to grow a peregrine'. Once you start to understand the intricate connections and links involved, it becomes like a fascinating 3D puzzle.Getting to the island - the interplay of tides, wind, ferries and a strand-crossing mean that travelling to Oronsay is never dull.West coast living - the ridiculous things that happen when living on a remote island, cut off from the rest of the world.
A Naturalist On Lundy
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Author : Mary E. Gillham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-04-01
A Naturalist On Lundy written by Mary E. Gillham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Island animals categories.
Where To See Wildlife On Vancouver Island
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Author : Kim Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company
Release Date : 1997
Where To See Wildlife On Vancouver Island written by Kim Goldberg and has been published by Harbour Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Travel categories.
Vancouver Island is one of the richest wildlife viewing areas in Canada, with diverse and extraordinary creatures ranging from Anise Swallowtails to Opalescent Squid to Gray Whales. With more than 200 colour photographs, plus maps, index, a calendar of events, species checklists, seasonal bar graphs, and safety tips, this book is perfect for both the serious naturalist and the weekend wildlife watcher. Vancouver Island, one of British Columbia's holiday hotspots, is 450 kilometres long with an astounding range of wildlife habitats: lush, mossy rainforests, a mountain range with peaks that reach over 2,000 metres, fertile lowlands, productive estuaries and pockets of near-desert habitat. This diversity, combined with the Island's placement on the Pacific flyway for migratory birds, gives the area a remarkable range of animals and plants. Where to See Wildlife on Vancouver Island, written by award-winning journalist and author Kim Goldberg and the first wildlife guide book devoted to the island, introduces 50 of the best wildlife viewing sites and is illustrated with maps and over 200 colour photos of island animals and plants. The 50 sites stretch from Victoria to Port McNeill on the east coast, and from East Sooke to Tofino on the west coast, where possibilities for viewing wildlife - even some endangered species - abound. 387 species of birds have been recorded here, along with 66 butterflies and 50 mammals including the Northern Sea Lion, Black Bear and Roosevelt Elk. Vancouver Island also supports 25 percent of the world's Trumpeter Swan population each winter, 100 percent of the world's endangered Vancouver Island Marmots, and receives an annual "sail past" of 21,000 Gray Whales each spring, virtually the entire global population. Nearly all the sites included in the book are readily accessible by car or ferry. In addition to the site descriptions, maps and illustrations, Goldberg's user-friendly and information-packed book contains interesting facts about wildlife and their habitat, a wildlife viewing calendar, tips for ethical adventuring, bear and cougar precautions and checklists for island mammals, birds, herptiles and butterflies.