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Robert Gillmor, one of Britain's most influential wildlife artist,
has illustrated four sets of pictorial stamps featuring birds for
Royal Mail's Post & Go. Brought together and reproduced here
for the first time, in larger-than-stamp size, these prints
demonstrate the author's lifelong love and appreciation of our
nation's birds. His own account of the process by which his
linocuts are made, along with anecdotal descriptions of his bird
encounters, bring the pictures to life. This beautifully produced
collection will be coveted by wildlife lovers, artists and stamp
collectors alike.
The robin was hardly understood when David Lack - Britain's most
influential ornithologist - started his scientific observations.
This book is a landmark in natural history, not just for its
discoveries, but because of the approachable style, sharpened with
an acute wit. It reads as fascinatingly today as when it was
written.
Allen W. Seaby's life has been described as "a classic tale of
Victorian self-improvement." But there is more to the tale than
just upward mobility. A. W. Seaby was a pioneering, innovative and
inspirational man who rose to become a prominent print-maker,
teacher, author and illustrator. Best-known for his colour woodcut
printing using traditional Japanese methods, and as a prominent
wildlife artist, the story of Seaby's many accomplishments is
recounted by his grandson, who inherited Seaby's love of birds and
became internationally renowned in his own right, Robert Gillmor.
Alongside this personal recount, Martin Andrews (Seaby's successor
as President of the Reading Guild of Artists) selects aspects of
his career and expands upon his techniques, his illustrative
methods, his circle of fellow artists and the books he published to
give a full and rounded account of a man whose work is currently
enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.
This book describes the results of a long-term study of the
ecology, evolutionary genetics and sociobiology of a seabird, the
Arctic Skua. This species is polymorphic: the birds show one of
three, genetically different forms of plumage - pale, intermediate
and dark. The forms vary in frequency from predominantly pale in
the north to dark in the south. The study was undertaken with the
aim of explaining how natural and sexual selection act to maintain
all three forms of skua in its populations. The results show that
natural selection for pale is balanced by sexual selection for
intermediate and dark. Models derived from Darwin's theories of
female choice and sexual selection in monogamous birds fit the
breeding data of the Arctic Skua. Darwibn's views on sexual
selection are fully confirmed. The study produced original data on
breeding ecology, demography, population regulation, sexual
behaviour and territoriality. A chapter on feeding ecology is also
included in the book, which gives a complete and largely original
account of the population ecology and sociobiology of a single
species of bird.
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