Fancy pigeons
Author | : James C. Lyell |
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Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : James C. Lyell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Author | : James C. Lyell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Pigeons |
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Author | : George Ure |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : James C. Lyell |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2024-04-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385426456 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author | : Rosemary Mosco |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1523515570 |
Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Fact: Pigeons are amazing, and until recently, humans adored them. We’ve kept them as pets, held pigeon beauty contests, raced them, used them to carry messages over battlefields, harvested their poop to fertilize our crops—and cooked them in gourmet dishes. Now, with The Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, readers can rediscover the wonder. Equal parts illustrated field guide and quirky history, it covers behavior: Why they coo; how they flock; how they preen, kiss, and mate (monogamously); and how they raise their young (on chunky pigeon milk). Anatomy and identification, from Birmingham Roller to the American Giant Runt to the Scandaroon. Birder issues, like what to do if you find a baby pigeon stranded in the park. And our lively shared story together, including all the things we’ve taught them—Ping-Pong, for example. “Rats with wings?” Think again. Pigeons coo, peck and nest all over the world, yet most of us treat them with indifference or disdain. So Rosemary Mosco, a bird-lover, science communicator, writer, and cartoonist (and co-author of The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid) is here to give the pigeon's image a makeover, and to help every town- and city-dweller get closer to nature by discovering the joys of birding through pigeon-watching.
Author | : Katrina van Grouw |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1400889642 |
A lavishly illustrated look at how evolution plays out in selective breeding Unnatural Selection is a stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding--the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale—a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd call it evolution. A unique fusion of art, science, and history, this book celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's monumental work The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, and is intended as a tribute to what Darwin might have achieved had he possessed that elusive missing piece to the evolutionary puzzle—the knowledge of how individual traits are passed from one generation to the next. With the benefit of a century and a half of hindsight, Katrina van Grouw explains evolution by building on the analogy that Darwin himself used—comparing the selective breeding process with natural selection in the wild, and, like Darwin, featuring a multitude of fascinating examples. This is more than just a book about pets and livestock, however. The revelation of Unnatural Selection is that identical traits can occur in all animals, wild and domesticated, and both are governed by the same evolutionary principles. As van Grouw shows, animals are plastic things, constantly changing. In wild animals the changes are usually too slow to see—species appear to stay the same. When it comes to domesticated animals, however, change happens fast, making them the perfect model of evolution in action. Suitable for the lay reader and student, as well as the more seasoned biologist, and featuring more than four hundred breathtaking illustrations of living animals, skeletons, and historical specimens, Unnatural Selection will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in natural history and the history of evolutionary thinking.
Author | : E. S. Starr |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781725888746 |
E.S. Starr's legendary essays "The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons" and "The Homing Pigeon" are brought together here for the first time since their first publication in 1886. Originally having appeared in The Century magazine, these essays are considered rare classics on pigeon keeping from the late 19th Century. Included are details on the keeping of many varieties of Fancy Pigeons, such as Fantails, Trumpeters, Pouters, Frills and others, as well as insights into the early history of racing pigeons. Lavishly illustrated with vintage pigeon art depicting many breeds of fancy and racing pigeons. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Pigeon breeds |
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Author | : Robert Fulton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Pigeons |
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Author | : Hugh Piper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Pigeons |
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