Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California

Zusatztext "A valuable resource for anyone interested in being better able to interpret their natural surroundings." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Outstanding. This is a brilliant work by the best in the field. Watching a great tracker at work can feel like watching a magician! but this book demystifies the process and inspires the reader to begin to look closer and open the world of tracking."-John Muir Laws! author of The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada Zusammenfassung A guide to the tracks and signs of California animals - including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates like spiders and beetles. It provides essential background and visual aids for the novice, including information about the ecology of each species. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Lawrence Mark Kresky Elbroch, Lawrence Mark/ Kresky Elbroch, Mark Elbroch, Elbroch Lawrence Mark, Jonah Evans, Jonah Wy Evans, Michael Kresky, Michael Raymond Kresky
• Assisted by: Lawrence Mark Elbroch (Illustration), Mark Elbroch (Illustration), Michael Kresky (Illustration), Michael Raymond Kresky (Illustration)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.03.2012
• EAN: 9780520271098
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27109-8
• No. of pages: 398
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 30 mm
• Series: California Natural History Guides; California Natural History Gui; California Natural History Guides; California Natural History Gui
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, California, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Wildlife: general interest, Zoology and animal sciences