Britain's Freshwater Fishes (WILDGuides)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691156786 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book also includes a glossary and suggestions for further reading. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, with information on status, size and weight, habitat, ecology, and conservation. This beautifully illustrated guide features in-the-hand and in-the-water photographs throughout, and accessible and informative overviews of topics such as fish biology and life cycles. Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments, from torrential hill streams and lowland rivers to lakes and reservoirs, ponds and canals, and ditches and estuaries. Brit
Mark Everard is a scientist, author, and frequent contributor to television and radio. His books include "The Complete Book of the Roach" and "Common Ground: The Sharing of Land and Landscapes for Sustainability."
A great new guide for naturalists and anglers on a trip to Britain There have been quite a number of guides to British freshwater fish over the years, but none seems to have endured and there is no clear 'standard field guide'. This seems odd for a group that is the basis of one of the country's most popular hobbies. The only guide on my shelves is Wheeler's 1978 Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe. This is an extremely well-researched and comprehensive guide, but I suspect that the lack of colour illustrations prevented it becoming very popular. It is probably a reflection on the lack of better guides in the intervening 35 years that good copies of the dependable Wheeler typic
Attractively designed and easy to use."--Dan Kinney, Farming Life"This book encourages fish-watching explicitly and also through providing the information to make it fun. I like it a lot."--Mark Avery blog"This book lives up to the billing: it tells you everything the non-angler could reasonably want to know, concisely and with authority. "Mark Everard has added to his already impressive tally of books with his latest release, Britain's Freshwater Fishes. All in all we are impressed--it's perfect for any angler who wants to know more about fish."--Angler's Mail"It is a beautiful photographic ID guide. It i