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Photographic Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Europe,Used
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Product Description This photographic guide to butterflies represents a completely new approach to field guides. It is aimed at those who wish to find and identify butterflies encountered in the field quickly and easily while promoting their conservation. The text is arranged alongside the fourcolorillustrations of the butterflies along with a map to show the distribution of the butterflies in Europe. The text is deliberately focused on features that complement the photographs and facilitate identification. All the photographs are of living butterflies in the positions in which they will befound in nature if a butterfly only perches with its wings outspread, that is how it appears in the book; if a butterfly may perch either with its wings spread or folded, both views are shown so that readers will be encouraged to preserve the ecology and conservation status of the butterflies.Stress is laid on the importance of exploiting all available information for locating and identifying butterflies if two species look so similar that they cannot be identified without handling or dissection, the two species are distinguished by behavioral, geographical, or seasonal features in thetext. This is the only guide that covers the whole of Europe, including the Canaries, Azores, Mediera and all the Aegean islands. It contains numerous unique photographs of species, subspecies, and forms that have never been published before. Review "These plasticcovered paperbacks are full of excellent information."' BIRDS Magazine About the Author Dr Tom Tolman developed an interest in botany and natural history in the '70's, and quite by chance developed a passion for butterflies. He took early retirement from his career as an industrial research chemist to become an author and illustrator. He has done extensive research on their habitats, and between 1987 and 1996, the writer and his wife would spend between 46 months each year, camping in very remote mountainous locations for the sole purpose of acquiring new information. Dr Tolman has a superb collection of butterfly photographs from all over Europe, including many species whose photographs have never been published. He is the author of the text of Collins Field Guide to Butterflies of Britain and Europe.
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