Le guide nature TRACES ET INDICES - 2ème édition

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The TRACES AND CLUES nature guide - 2nd edition:


Revised and expanded by 48 pages, the 2nd edition of the Nature Guide Traces and Indices gives you the know-how of a tracker. Thanks to easy-to-access descriptions and some 1,150 original drawings, identify more than 730 footprints, signs of presence and other animal or plant clues, whether in the snow, in the forest or on a muddy bank.

The essential guide to tracking animals and deciphering plants

An old pencil-cut poplar tree, a beautiful feather with purple reflections, a branch covered in black buds or a clawed imprint in the mud... On vacation or on a walk, how many times have you questioned yourself when faced with clues? intriguing? With the help of this book, find the right answers and identify all kinds of traces.

Enriched with 48 additional pages, the new edition of this great classic brings together more than 730 different clues. It of course allows you to track small and large mammals such as deer or wolves, but also to recognize bird prints as well as their feathers, eggs, nests and even their pellets. This original and complete guide also helps you identify trees and shrubs from a leaf found on the ground, a bud in the depths of winter, a fruit carried by the wind or a piece of bark. Specially designed chapters present the galls that insects and mites cause on leaves, and the cells, galleries and other signs left on trees by the inhabitants of worm-eaten trunks. Finally, the last part of the book teaches you to name rocks and identify shells, cuttlefish bones or algae found by the sea.

Contents

Track mammals: recognize tracks, tracks, droppings and marks of deer, wild boar and other ungulates, track lynx, fox and other carnivores, read signs of the presence of small mammals, decipher the tracks left by the beaver.

In the footsteps of birds: identify bird species from their footprints, their feathers, their nests and their eggs, find the prey of birds of prey by peeling off their pellets.

Go further: Discover the lodges, galleries and other signs of the inhabitants of healthy or worm-eaten trees, identify rocks, distinguish shells, algae and other organisms washed up on seaside beaches.


The Nature Guides collection

The Salamandre nature guides are compact books answering all the questions you may ask while walking, in the garden or near your home. Each guide replaces several specialized works and brings together complete and synthetic content on a specific group of species or a particular environment, intended for amateurs or the curious.


Technical sheet:

• A collective work directed by Alessandro Staehli and Franck Bas
• Format: 14 x 18.5 cm, 224 pages
• Public: general public – naturalists – teachers • Publication: April 2024 • ISBN: 978-2-88958-549-6

Weight : 200.00 g