Albatrosses /
Albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the 'Roaring Forties' and the 'Furious Fifties', otherwise known as the Southern Ocean. The single most distinctive characteristic of the albatrosses is that they ride storms. Aside from a few close r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collingwood, Vic. :
CSIRO,
©2008.
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Colección: | Australian natural history series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; 1 Myth and legend; 2 The species; 3 The habitat (the Southern Ocean); 4 Food and foraging; 5 Flight; 6 Courtship; 7 The nesting cycle; 8 Human impacts; Appendix; Selected references; Index.