Antarctica: A Guide to the WildlifeGlobe Pequot Press, 2003 - 144 páginas An illustrated traveller's companion to the wildife of the Antarctic wilderness written by TV naturalist Tony Soper. Species identification is aided by a range of drawings by Dafila Scott. |
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INTRODUCTION | 5 |
TERRESTRIAL PLANTS AND INSECTS | 21 |
BIRDS Penguins | 28 |
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Términos y frases comunes
abundant Adélie adult albatross animals Antarctic skua Antarctic tern Antarctica ashore austral winter bill birds blubber blue whale breeding grounds burrow cape petrel chinstrap circumpolar coast crabeater crèche crustaceans dark diving diving-petrel dorsal fin egg is laid elephant seal expedition Falklands fast-ice feathers feeding female flight flippers floes fluke fulmar fur seals gentoos grey head juveniles kelp gulls Kerguelen killer whales king penguins krill land large numbers Length leopard seals lichens limpet macaroni mainly males million moult nest northern November pack-ice pairs parents pelagic peninsula plankton plumage predators prey prion pups Ross Sea seabirds season shag sheathbills ship-follower ships single egg small fish snow sometimes sooty South America South Georgia South polar skuas South Shetlands southern giant petrel Southern Ocean species sperm whales squid sub-Antarctic islands surface tail tonnes underparts upperparts upperwing Weddell Weddell seals Weight Wilson's storm-petrel wings Wingspan Zealand