Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California

A guide to the tracks and signs of California animals - including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates like spiders and beetles. It provides useful tools for the wildlife expert, and essential background and visual aids for the novice, including information about the ecology of each species.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Getting started Quick reference: Sooted track plates Chapter 3: Mammal Tracks and Trails Chapter 4: Tracks and Trails of Bird and Other Animals Quick reference: Tracks Chapter 5: Animal Scats and scent marking behaviors Quick reference: Scats Chapter 6: Bird pellets Quick reference: Pellets Chapter 7: Mammal species accounts Bibliography About the authors

About the author

Mark Elbroch is a wildlife biologist and the author of numerous field guides including Mammal Tracks and Signs: A Guide to North American Species (winner of the National Outdoors Book Award), Peterson's Field Guide to Animal Tracks, and Peterson's Reference Guide to the Behavior of North American Mammals. Michael Kresky is the founder and president of Effigy Art, a fine arts company in Santa Barbara. Jonah Evans is Research Biologist at Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Lawrence Mark Kresky Elbroch, Lawrence Mark/ Kresky Elbroch, Mark Elbroch, Jonah Wy Evans, Michael Raymond Kresky
• Assisted by: Lawrence Mark Elbroch (Illustration), Mark Elbroch (Illustration), Michael Raymond Kresky (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2012
• EAN: 9780520253780
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25378-0
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: California Natural History Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Nature guide; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology