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Britain's Mammals Updated Edition : A Field Guide to the Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Couzens, Dominic
Otros Autores: Dunn, Jon, Still, Robert, Swash, Andy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • The biology and life-cycle of mammals
  • The history of Britain's and Ireland's mammals
  • Mammals
  • explaining the names and classification
  • Britain's and Ireland's mammals
  • an overview
  • The types of mammal
  • Watching mammals
  • Mammal-watching techniques
  • When to go mammal-watching
  • time of day
  • When to go mammal-watching
  • time of year
  • Small mammal trapping
  • Bat watching
  • Watching marine mammals
  • Tracks and signs
  • Mammal tracks
  • The Species Accounts
  • Terrestrial Mammals
  • Squirrels and dormice
  • Red Squirrel
  • Sciurus vulgaris
  • Grey Squirrel
  • Sciurus carolinensis
  • Edible Dormouse
  • Glis glis
  • Hazel Dormouse
  • Muscardinus avellanarius
  • Small mammals (voles, mice and shrews), rats and beavers
  • The identification of small mammals
  • Bank Vole
  • Myodes (Clethrionomys) glareolus
  • Field Vole
  • Microtus agrestis
  • Orkney Vole
  • Microtus arvalis
  • Water Vole
  • Arvicola amphibius
  • Harvest Mouse
  • Micromys minutus
  • Wood Mouse
  • Apodemus sylvaticus
  • Yellow-necked Mouse
  • Apodemus flavicollis
  • House Mouse
  • Mus (musculus) domesticus
  • Common Rat
  • Rattus norvegicus
  • Ship Rat
  • Rattus rattus
  • Eurasian Beaver
  • Castor fiber
  • Common Shrew
  • Sorex araneus
  • Pygmy Shrew
  • Sorex minutus
  • Water Shrew
  • Neomys fodiens
  • Lesser White-toothed Shrew
  • Crocidura suaveolens
  • Greater White-toothed Shrew
  • Crocidura russula
  • Moles
  • Mole
  • Talpa europaea
  • Hedgehogs
  • Hedgehog
  • Erinaceus europaeus
  • Rabbit and hares
  • Rabbit
  • Oryctolagus cuniculus
  • Brown Hare
  • Lepus europaeus
  • Mountain Hare
  • Lepus timidus
  • Bats
  • Identifying bats
  • Key to the breeding bats of Britain and Ireland
  • Identification of the rare bats of Britain and Ireland
  • Identifying bats by sound
  • Identifying bats by droppings
  • Resident Bats
  • Greater Horseshoe Bat
  • Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
  • Lesser Horseshoe Bat
  • Rhinolophus hipposideros
  • Serotine
  • Eptisecus serotinus
  • Noctule
  • Nyctalus noctula
  • Leisler's Bat
  • Nyctalus leisleri
  • Common Pipistrelle
  • Pipistrellus pipistrellus
  • Soprano Pipistrelle
  • Pipistrellus pygmaeus
  • Nathusius' Pipistrelle
  • Pipistrellus nathusii
  • Barbastelle
  • Barbastella barbastellus
  • Brown Long-eared Bat
  • Plecotus auritus
  • Grey Long-eared Bat
  • Plecotus austriacus
  • Bechstein's Bat
  • Myotis bechsteinii
  • Natterer's Bat
  • Myotis nattereri
  • Daubenton's Bat
  • Myotis daubentonii
  • Whiskered Bat
  • Myotis mystacinus
  • Alcathoe Bat
  • Myotis alcathoe
  • Brandt's Bat
  • Myotis brandtii
  • Rare Migrant and Vagrant Bats
  • Greater Mouse-eared Bat
  • Myotis myotis
  • Northern Bat
  • Eptisecus nilssoni
  • Particoloured Bat
  • Vespertilio murinus
  • Kuhl's Pipistrelle
  • Pipistrellus kuhlii
  • Savi's Pipistrelle
  • Hypsugo savii
  • European Free-tailed Bat
  • Tadarida teniotis
  • Hoary Bat
  • Lasiurus cinereus
  • Geoffroy's Bat
  • Myotis emarginatus
  • Pond Bat
  • Myotis dasycneme