• Twitter
  • Facebook
Theme
Currency
Log-in | Register | My Basket : arrow

Your shopping basket is currently empty.

0 items - 0.00
Our Publications

The Pemberley Bookshop

Our Shop

Why not come and peruse our comprehensive range of natural history titles at our well stocked bookshop, where you can also receive our expert advice. Click here for details of our shop.

Storm-petrels

by Thomas, R.

Special Offer
  • Paperback £25.99
  • £35.00 (Save £9.01)
  • New Book Availability : In stock
  • Add to wishlist
  • Catalogue No : 56033
  • ISBN : 9781472985828
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 320

Our customers have not yet submitted a review for this title - click here to be the first to write a review

Description:

The definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species.

Imagine a bird as small as a sparrow, which lives most of its life on the open ocean yet can survive for decades. It walks on the water, and migrates half way around the world, returning to remote islands to breed underground, often in exactly the same rock crevice each year. To attract a mate it sings like a fairy and smells aromatic, but it vomits oil onto its enemies. It visits its nest by night, lays a single enormous egg, and feeds its chick until the nestling weighs more than both its parents put together. It seems to have little fear of humans, but was itself sometimes feared by ancient seafarers.

This might sound like the stuff of legend but is actually the description of a real creature; the European Storm-petrel; walker on water, global wanderer, climate sentinel and open-ocean survivor, and a member of a group of around twenty species that form the Hydrobatidae family.

The latest in the Poyser series, with comprehensive text and beautiful illustrations throughout, this follows the remarkable life of the storm-petrel. Focusing on the European species, it tracks their lives from the remote North Atlantic islands, where they breed via the coasts of Africa, to the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, where they spend the northern winter. There is also some discussion on other members of the storm-petrel family. We learn about their evolution, behaviour, ecology and adaptations to a life in the harsh and unpredictable environment of the open ocean, and discover what these enigmatic seabirds reveal about what humans are doing to our planet.

Other titles from the series : Poyser Monographs

Click to view all titles in this series...

The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit

The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit

Broughton, R.K.

Price £48.00

(Save £12.00)

Storm-petrels

Storm-petrels

Thomas, R.

Price £45.00

(Save £15.00)

The Osprey

The Osprey

Mackrill, T.

Price £48.00

(Save £12.00)

The Osprey

The Osprey

Mackrill, T.

Price £28.00

(Save £7.00)

The Nuthatches

The Nuthatches

Matthysen, E.

Price £18.00

(Save £2.00)

The Tawny Owl

The Tawny Owl

Martin, J.

Price £28.00

(Save £7.00)

You may also like...

Tortoises of the World: Giants to Dwarfs

Tortoises of the World: Giants to Dwarfs

Zug, G.R.; Reese, D.A.

Price £41.50

Sunbirds of the World: Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters & Sugarbirds

Sunbirds of the World: Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters & Sugarbirds

Mann, C.F.; Cheke, R.A.

Price £60.00

(Save £15.00)

A Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo

A Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo

Dehling, M.; Stuebing, R.; Inger, R.F.; Grafe, U.

Price £38.50

Threatened Newts and Salamanders of the World - Captive Care Management Vol. 4

Threatened Newts and Salamanders of the World - Captive Care Management Vol. 4

9783899735772Grosse, W.-R.; Gerlach, U. (Ed.)

Price £56.00

Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco

Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco

Martinez del Marmol, G.; Harris, D.J.; Geniez, P.; de Pous, P.; Salvi, D.

Price £98.00

(Save £12.00)

Amphibians and Reptiles of Russia

Amphibians and Reptiles of Russia

Dunayev, E., Orlova, V.

Price £98.00

(Save £18.00)

Subscribe to our mailing list More details about our mailing list arrow