Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
White Ibis: Wetland Wanderer
by Bildstein, Keith L
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1560982233
- ISBN 13
- 9781560982234
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9. 242 Pages Indexed. Bibliography. Green boards with brown quarter-spine and silver lettering. Distinguished from other wading birds by their long, downwardly curved bills, ibises have been an object of human fascinaiton since priests first offered the mummified remains of sacred ibises to the gods of ancient Egypt. Today, North American populations of White Ibises rank as one of the continent's most abundant colonially nesting wading birds, with most found in coastal North and South Caroline, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida. Bildstein explores the critical ecologoical relationships between White Ibises and the wetlands they inhabit --- and reveals a discovery crucial to the birds' survival. He determined that when ibises were raising their young, parents often traveled as much as 25 miles inland to feed on fresh-water crayfish. Puzzled by their choice of distant inland feeding sites, he discovered that because salt toxicity prevents nestlings from developing normally on brackish-water prey, young ibises require fresh-water prey to survive. He found that coastal populaitons of White Ibises need both a coastal bedroom and and inland kitchen to survive. Porotecting their more conspicuous coastal bedrooms will mean little if the less consipicuous inland kitchens are destroyed by human development. Bildstein closes with an account of Trinidad's failure to protect its Scarlet Ibis and an analysis of the devastating effects fo Hurricane Hugo on South Carolina's White Ibises. A Smithsonian Nature Book.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9299
- Title
- White Ibis: Wetland Wanderer
- Author
- Bildstein, Keith L
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1560982233
- ISBN 13
- 9781560982234
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington and London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 6" x 9
- Keywords
- BIRDS NATURE BIRDWATCHING
Terms of Sale
Dons Book Store
We accept Discover, MasterCard and Visa. Books may be returned for any reason providing a request is made within 7 days of receipt. Return shipping charges refunded if book is not as described.
About the Seller
Dons Book Store
Biblio member since 2005
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Dons Book Store
We are a family owned and operated bookstore in same location for 52 years. We have built our business on integrity, professional and personal service. General line of new and used paperback and hardback books, comics and graphic novels.