Description
As a biologist, anything living was his province-the bee-killing wasps and the digger wasps of the Dutch sand dunes; the Snow Bruntings and Phalaropes of Greenland; Hobbies and other hawks; moths and butterflies in various parts of England and Holland; Black-headed Gulls of the Ravenglass nature reserve, Cumberland, the Kittiwakes and Eider Ducks of the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland.
Readers cannot fail to be struck-and possibly sometimes amused-by the patience and ingenuity shown in the field studies undertaken by Dr. Tinbergen and his fellow naturalists-and which are now passed on for the benefit and interest of his readers. The studies were always undertaken seriously, but this did not prevent Dr. Tinbergen from writing about them in the liveliest way; he realised that quite often he and his friends must have seemed to onlookers to be very curious naturalists indeed.
Book Information
ISBN 9780870234569
Author Niko Tinbergen
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
Weight(grams) 260g