Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

by Mark Carwardine

Overview

Practical and portable, this is the ultimate field guide to the world's cetaceans.

This outstanding new field guide to whales, dolphins and porpoises is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date guide to these popular mammals. With more than 500 accurate illustrations – complete with detailed annotations pointing out the most significant field marks – Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises covers all 93 species and every subspecies in the world.

Many of the world's most respected whale biologists have collaborated on the concise text, which is packed with helpful identification tips from cetacean expert, Mark Carwardine. Mark's informative text is accompanied by up-to-date distribution maps for each species. Beautifully designed, to ensure critical information is quickly accessible, this is an indispensable resource that every whale-watcher will want to carry out to sea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472969965
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/26/2022
Series:	Bloomsbury Naturalist
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	88 MB
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About the Author

Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, writer, radio and TV presenter, wildlife photographer, whale-watch operator and an active and outspoken conservationist, with a special interest in cetaceans. His TV series include BBC's Last Chance to See with Stephen Fry, and for many years he presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4. Mark writes a monthly column in BBC Wildlife magazine and has written more than 50 books on wildlife and conservation, including the Handbook of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whale Watching in Britain and Europe and Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whale Watching in North America.
Mark Carwardine is a zoologist and an award-winning writer, a TV and radio presenter, a bestselling author of more than 50 books, a BBC Wildlife magazine columnist, a widely published photographer and an outspoken environmentalist. He presented BBC Radio 4's weekly programme, Nature, for many years and is best known for his Last Chance to See books, radio series and TV series with Douglas Adams and Stephen Fry. He was Chair of the Judging Panel of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for seven years and was selected as one of 'The World's 40 Most Influential Nature Photographers' in the US's Outdoor Photography magazine. He is currently presenting and producing the BBC Wildlife Photography Masterclass on YouTube and runs wildlife photography holidays and workshops all over the world.

Table of Contents

How to use this book
The challenges of identification
Cetacean topography
Quick ID guides

Right and bowhead whales
Pygmy right whale
Grey whale
Rorquals
Sperm whales
Narwhal and beluga
Beaked whales
Blackfish
Shorter-beaked oceanic dolphins
Longer-beaked oceanic dolphins
River dolphins
Porpoises

Caring for whales, dolphins and porpoises
Glossary

Species checklist

Sources and resources
Artists' biographies
Image credits
Acknowledgements
Index