Dear Marmamers,
Ethical publisher WILDGuides, working alongside authors Dylan Walker and
Graeme Cresswell, is pleased to announce the production of a new forthcoming
field guide entitled Whales and Dolphins of Europe, further details of which
are given at the end of this email.
It is our aim to produce as comprehensive a guide as possible, but to do that
we will need the expertise of many colleagues across Europe that share a wealth
of field experience. We would like, in particular, to hear from anybody who has
noted interesting behaviours or identification features in the cetaceans that
they study which are not in the published literature.
We are also very interested to receive sightings and strandings data from
around Europe in order to produce detailed cetacean distribution maps for the
region, and would welcome any assistance with this.
WILDGuides is a not-for-profit ethical publisher that converts book sales
into financial support for nature conservation charities. We are therefore
unable to pay photographers for image use, although each photographic
submission used will be fully credited (including website details if required),
and the photographer will receive a free copy of the book. We currently require
the following images taken from European or other North Atlantic waters:
Interesting surfacing behaviour of all species.
Images showing any species with distinctive European backgrounds such as
land, boats or people.
Any at-the-surface images of the following species:
North Atlantic Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis
Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetus
Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae
Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus
Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus
Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis
Brydes Whale Balaenoptera edeni
Common Minke Whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus
Pygmy Sperm Whale Kogia breviceps
Dwarf Sperm Whale Kogia sima
Cuviers Beaked Whale Ziphius cavirostris
Northern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon ampullatus
Blainvilles Beaked Whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Trues Beaked Whale Mesoplodon mirus
Sowerbys Beaked Whale Mesoplodon bidens
Gervais Beaked Whale Mesoplodon europaeus
Narwhal Delphinapterus leucas
Beluga Monodon monoceros
Killer Whale Orcinus orca
Short-finned Pilot Whale Globicephala macrorhynchus (breaching/spy-hopping
only)
Long-finned Pilot Whale Globicephala melas
False Killer Whale Pseudorca crassidens
Pygmy Killer Whale Feresa attenuata
Melon-headed Whale Peponocephala electra
Rissos Dolphin Grampus griseus
Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Rough-toothed Dolphin Steno bredanensis
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped Dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Frasers Dolphin Lagenodelphis hosei
Short-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus
White-beaked Dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris
Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena
The authors welcome any information or images that would assist us with this
exciting publication. Please send images, with details of the date and location
that the images were taken, on CD in a high resolution format to:
Dylan Walker
WILDGuides
17 Embassy Court
Kings Road
Brighton
United Kingdom
BN1 2PX
Tel: 0044 (0)1273 739284
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.wildguides.co.uk
Further details on Whales and Dolphins of Europe
The first comprehensive photographic guide to the cetaceans of Europe -
covering the waters between the Canary Islands in the south, and the high
Arctic in the north, and including the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic Seas.
Provides detailed information on all 35 species of whales, dolphins and
porpoises, focusing on identification, behaviour and distribution. Includes 35
remarkable colour plates showing typical views of cetaceans as most people see
them - from land or from a boat. These have been produced using the latest
digital image technology, and include photographs of some species that have
never before been published. Features a comprehensive section on behaviour,
packed with amazing photographs, which aims to help the reader get more out of
their whale watching experience than ever before. Also includes detailed
sections on where, when and how to go whale watching, with chapters on the key
whale watching locations in the region. A focus on information gathered
from the region and images with typical European terrestrial backgrounds will
give this book a fresh feel when compared to previous world guides, resulting
in the first must-have field guide for whale watchers and researchers
throughout Europe.
Regards,
Dylan Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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