Camargue: The Soul of a Wilderness |
Contents
Professor Dr Adolf Portmann Preface | 7 |
Karl Weber Wilderness Experienced | 27 |
Dr Lukas Hoffmann Heinz Hafner List of Vertebrates of the Camargue | 101 |
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Common terms and phrases
animals April areas autumn avocets bank bee-eaters birds black-headed gulls brackish lakes brackish water breeder and resident Breeds commonly bulrushes Camargue horse camera centimetres chicks chiefly colony colour Crau dark deciduous ditches duck dunes edge eggs Etang de Vaccarès étangs female fish flamingos flight frequently fresh water freshwater marshes gardians grass grey ground gull-billed terns hatched head herd hide hinterland holes hunting inches insects island Kentish plover lagoons land large numbers legs little egrets little terns margue metres migration mistral mock privet nest night herons occasionally October pairs parent birds patches plants plover plumage ponds prey purple heron reed thickets Regularly in small Rhône Rhône delta rice paddies roller salicornia salt-pans sand sansouïre slender-billed gull small numbers snake soil species spot steppe Stone curlew summer tamarisk taureaux tent terns trees warbler whiskered tern wild wind wings winter young birds