Over 600 drawings and 65 color paintings portray representative species of the 111 families of North American beetles. Includes information on collecting and preserving beetles.
These are fully illustrated with color photographs, comprehensive field guides including extensive descriptions covering appearance, habitat, range and much more!
With more than ten million copies sold, the National Audubon Society Field Guide series leaves North American shores for the first time to explore the world's most splendid natural environment. This guide fully covers Africa's habitats, describing the climates, landscapes, and wildlife of 58 countries. 577 color photos. 25 country maps. 480 ...
A whole new way to look at your world: New England, Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest are the first four subjects in a series of comprehensive field guides to the flora, fauna, landscape, and climate of specific geographic regions of North America. Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts; sensible, user-friendly organization; ...
The entire birding world, from expert ornithologists to backyard enthusiasts, has been waiting for Sibley's work to be made available in a field-usable form. Containing the renowned artist's superbly lucid and comprehensive text, this guide features more than 6,500 of his detailed paintings. Full color.
Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts, sensible, user-friendly organization, extraordinary color photography and illustrations--these features and others combine to make the National Audubon Society Field Guides among the most encyclopedic guidebooks around. 1,500 color photos, plus 200 maps & illustrations in each guide.
The first field guides completely illustrated with full-color photographs of living birds in their natural habitats by such leading nature photographers as Allan Cruickshank, Thase Daniel, O.S. Pettingill, and Roger Tory Peterson.
This newly designed field guide features descriptions of 524 species of butterflies. One hundred color photographs as well as 348 color range maps accompany the species descriptions. The 541 exquisite color paintings clearly show even the most minute field marks. Introductory chapters include information on butterfly gardening, habitats, and ...
A whole new way to look at your world: New England, Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest are the first four subjects in a series of comprehensive field guides to the flora, fauna, landscape, and climate of specific geographic regions of North America. Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts; sensible, user-friendly organization; ...
The latest addition to America's number one field guide series is a unique survey of the creatures that make the warm waters they inhabit the favorite destination of millions of scuba divers, snorkelers, and tourists. This is the only complete guide to the nearly 1,200 species of fish that live and breed in these areas, giving copious information ...
Not merely a guide to bird-watching, this book provides a vast array of information on birds, including detailed essays on anatomy and behavior, plus information on migration, nesting, and much more. The book is illustrated with nearly 800 paintings as well as with useful maps and charts, and it contains a glossary and a species checklist.
All 700 identification pictures are full-color photos showing wildflowers--including grasses, hedges and many flowering vines and shrubs as you see them in their natural habitat.
Each of the 585 identification pictures is a full-color photograph of a marine or freshwater fish. Also included are 30 photographs of whales and dolphins and 45 paintings. Arranged by shape and by color.
Beautifully illustrated with full-color photos, this is a comprehensive field guide to the wildflowers, birds, reptiles, insects, and other natural wonders of North America's deserts, from Oregon to Mexico.
Explore the plants, animals and habitats of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah with the help of this informative, portable guide. 1,200 color illustrations. 200 maps, diagrams & drawings.
One of the world's greatest painters of nature and three leading natural history writers have collaborated to offer this spectacular introduction to the natural habitats of Massachusetts. From the barrier beaches, heathlands, and salt marshes of the Atlantic Coast, to the teeming vernal pools, red maple swamps, and grasslands of the interior, all ...
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