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RSPB Nature Tracker's Handbook
Description
RSPB The Nature Tracker's Handbook is a complete guide to how to interpret the signs that animals leave behind.
The art of nature tracking is very much like learning to read, but instead of reading words the tracker reads traces. Every animal leaves different traces as it goes about its everyday business. If you learn to read the signs left by footprints, leftover food, droppings and scrapes in the earth, you will soon be able to tell the story of an animal's life, packed with fascinating details and hidden meanings.
The RSPB Nature Tracker's Handbook explains with extensive photography and detailed diagrams how to find and interpret the evidence that animals leave behind – from a pile of mangled feathers to a delicately nibbled mushroom. Nick Baker also demonstrates useful tracker activities, such as how to mount a discarded nymph skin and how to dissect an owl's pellet to reveal its last meal.
There's a nature detective in all of us, so get out there and get tracking.
Table of Contents
Stuff in the Tracker's Kitbag
Tracks and Trails
Signs of Feeding Activity
Nests
Whose Hole?
The Pleasures of Poo
Pellets
Dead Things
Natural Objects and Remains
Glossary
Acknowledgements and picture credits
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781472932556 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Natural History |
| Series | RSPB |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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