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A Natural History Of Lighthouses John A Love

Name: A Natural History Of Lighthouses John A Love
SKU: BELL-5742654
Price: 31.00 USD
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Publisher: Whittles Publishing

File Extension: PDF

File size: 44.7 MB

Pages: 288

Author: John A. Love

ISBN: 9781849951548, 1849951543

Language: English

Year: 2015

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A Natural History Of Lighthouses John A Love by John A. Love 9781849951548, 1849951543 instant download after payment.

This is the story of lightkeepers’ contributions to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons. Since keepers were first engaged to maintain lighthouses around the British coast they have encountered wildlife, and in some cases developed a keen interest and expertise on the subject. Towards the end of the 19th century keepers were encouraged to submit annual returns of bird movements enabling reports on bird migration and several authoritative books to be compiled. As a result, ornithologists began to recognize how many lighthouses were well-placed to establish bird observatories. However, lightkeepers also recognized that in certain weather conditions and during migration times, flocks of birds were attracted to the beam, resulting in many fatalities. While the problem is now better understood and considerably reduced, the automation of all British lighthouses has resulted in there no longer being lighthouse keepers to monitor the situation and report bird, sea mammal, insect and bat movements.
The Natural History of Lighthouseshighlights the contribution made by lighthouse keepers over the last century or two to the study of natural history, and ornithology in particular. Much of this is discussed in the words of the keepers themselves, set in the context of lighthouse history. Scotland has an especially rich lighthouse tradition, mainly due to a dynasty of Stevenson engineers covering over a century, all of whom also had a profound understanding of weather and geology—and indeed natural history—so important in the placing of their lighthouses.