Offshore Sea Life ID Guide
West Coast
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2015
56 pages
978-1-4008-6597-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Fixed format
Illustrations
300+ color photos. 1 map., 1 s/w Abbildung
300+ color photos. 1 map.
File size
4,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4008-6597-0 (9781400865970)
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06/2015
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Persons
Steve N. G. Howell is an international bird tour leader with WINGS and a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences. His other books include Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America and The Amazing World of Flyingfish (both Princeton). Brian L. Sullivan is eBird project leader and photographic editor for Birds of North America Online at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and a coauthor of The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors (Princeton).
Content
Introduction 5
Acknowledgments 11
Some Words Explained 11
Marine Mammals 12
Killer Whale (Orca) 12
Whales 14
Dolphins and Porpoises 18
Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal 22
Rarer Marine Mammals 24
Seabirds 26
Albatrosses 26
Shearwaters and Fulmar 28
Storm-Petrels 32
Phalaropes 35
Alcids 36
Red-billed Tropicbird 40
Brown Booby 40
South Polar Skua 41
Jaegers 42
Gulls and Terns 44
Rarer Seabirds 46
Other Sea Life 50
Fish (sunfish, sharks, flyingfish) 50
Sea Turtles 52
Jellyfish, Krill, etc. 52
Kelp (seaweed) 54
Landbirds 54
Species Codes, Scientific Names, and Index 55
Acknowledgments 11
Some Words Explained 11
Marine Mammals 12
Killer Whale (Orca) 12
Whales 14
Dolphins and Porpoises 18
Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal 22
Rarer Marine Mammals 24
Seabirds 26
Albatrosses 26
Shearwaters and Fulmar 28
Storm-Petrels 32
Phalaropes 35
Alcids 36
Red-billed Tropicbird 40
Brown Booby 40
South Polar Skua 41
Jaegers 42
Gulls and Terns 44
Rarer Seabirds 46
Other Sea Life 50
Fish (sunfish, sharks, flyingfish) 50
Sea Turtles 52
Jellyfish, Krill, etc. 52
Kelp (seaweed) 54
Landbirds 54
Species Codes, Scientific Names, and Index 55
