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Penguins in the Desert / Eric Wagner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Eric Loudon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magellanic penguin--Argentina--Tombo Point.
- Magellanic penguin.
- Tombo Point (Argentina).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Most of us wouldn't think to look for penguins in a hot desert, but every year along a windswept edge of coastal Patagonia, hundreds of thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to rear their young at Punta Tombo, Argentina.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Prologue. Penguins in the Desert
- 1. In Patagonia
- 2. The Point
- 3. Hurricane Dee
- 4. The Food Web
- 5. Hatch
- 6. Storm
- 7. Hunger
- 8. Watching Seabirds at Sea
- 9. Other People's Penguins
- 10. The Penguin Coast
- 11. Passages
- 12. The Giant Petrel
- 13. Waiting for Turbo
- Epilogue. The Bleak Land
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87071-927-0
- OCLC:
- 1020305602
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