THE AFRICAN FISH EAGLE. By Leslie Brown.
1980 1st UK edition. Large 8vo (170 x 246mm). Ppx,168. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in white.
"Lesley Brown has been studying Fish Eagles for more than twenty years. He has watched them from Nigeria to Ethiopia, most often in his home country of Kenya, and in Botswana. The results of this accumulated research have been collated and condensed in this book. ...The text is readable and entertaining ...with a mass of carefully analysed detail in tabulated appendices." Chapters include: A portrait of the Fish Eagle; Watching Fish Eagles; The Fish Eagle's day; The Fish Eagle as a fisherman; The Fish Eagle and economics; Territory and population regulation; Courtship, mating and breeding behaviour; Adolescence and survival; Unanswered questions; Examples of a pair behaviour analysis; Bibliography.
"Lesley Brown has been studying Fish Eagles for more than twenty years. He has watched them from Nigeria to Ethiopia, most often in his home country of Kenya, and in Botswana. The results of this accumulated research have been collated and condensed in this book. ...The text is readable and entertaining ...with a mass of carefully analysed detail in tabulated appendices." Chapters include: A portrait of the Fish Eagle; Watching Fish Eagles; The Fish Eagle's day; The Fish Eagle as a fisherman; The Fish Eagle and economics; Territory and population regulation; Courtship, mating and breeding behaviour; Adolescence and survival; Unanswered questions; Examples of a pair behaviour analysis; Bibliography.
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Book Code
8105
Author | Brown (Leslie). |
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Book Code | 8105 |
ISBN | 0561003041 / 0561003041. |
Book Description | Very good in dust-wrapper. |
Book Cover | Hardcover |
Published Date | 1980 |
Publisher | Bailey Bros. and Swinfen. |
Place | Folkestone, Kent. |