Excerpt from Bird Life in England
IN these pages I have attempted to give a somewhat uncon ventional view of bird life in England and her sister kingdoms to north and west. The naturalist may smile at a monograph so incomplete as this, but in Yarrel, Morris, Gould, Grey, and a score of others, he will find exhaustive authors who have gone with infinite care and pains through the Whole list of British birds and epitomized each. No attempt of this sort has been made here. There are, to begin with, more than three hundred birds nesting with greater or lesser frequency in our islands, and even at such modest allotment as two pages to each, we should have at once a bulky volume of six hundred pages. But the greater part of these wild fowl of meadow and marsh are the curator's birds alone, and lovers of country side and the life of copse and dingle can only hope to meet with but a very much reduced selection from the formidable list which professors and students have put together. It is of these birds, the more familiar ones, I write.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the many ways birds, particularly smaller species, are useful and harmful to mankind. The author presents various viewpoints, including the arguments of gamekeepers and farmers, and weighs them against the natural benefits birds provide, such as pest control and seed dispersal. The author provides historical context for bird-related practices like hawking and trapping, while also discussing the modern legal protection of some species. By examining the complex relationship between birds, humans, and the environment, this book seeks to foster a more informed and nuanced understanding of their value to our world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781334346378_0
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