Mike Unwin

RSPB Spotlight Swifts and Swallows (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

RSPB Spotlight: Swifts and Swallows is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist.

People all over Britain and Europe have long welcomed the arrival of swifts and swallows as a promise of summer being just around the corner. And with their similar long wings and dashing flight, it is perhaps understandable that we often confuse the two birds.

After all, they have much in common: both feed on flying insects, both breed around buildings, and both are long-distance migrants that spend winter in Africa. But appearances can be deceptive. Swifts and swallows are completely unrelated birds that have adapted through evolution to survive in similar ways. In Spotlight: Swifts and Swallows, Mike Unwin reveals their fascinating lifestyles, explains how and why they have acquired their similarities, and ways in which we can help protect them.

The Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives and behaviour of our favourite animals with eye-catching colour photography and informative expert text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472950109
• Artikelnr.: 53546075

Autorenporträt

Mike Unwin is a freelance writer, editor and illustrator with over 13 years' experience in natural history publishing. In 2000 he won the BBC Wildlife travel-writing competition. His children's titles include the bestselling RSPB My First Book of Garden Birds and My First Book of Garden Wildlife.

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Meet the Swift and the Swallow Ancestors and Relatives Built for Flight An
Airborne Menu Born in a Tower Born in a Barn Globetrotters Life and Death
Icons of Summer Protecting Swifts and Swallows Glossary Further Reading and
Resources Acknowledgements Image Credits Index