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Animal Tracks Field Guide

Field / Identification Guide Out of Print
By: John Rhyder(Author)
57 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Woodcraft School
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This spiralbound waterproof guide to animal tracks found in Britain is a perfect field companion.
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  • Animal Tracks Field Guide ISBN: 9781916434318 Spiralbound Jan 2021 Out of Print #255306
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This volume represents an immense amount of time in the field and at home trying to define track and sign accurately. Captive animals have been asked to stand in sand traps and ink traps to reveal their footprints. Trail cameras have been placed next to kills, holes and rubs to discover the architects of numerous bits of sign. Hours of serious head-scratching have ensued in woods, pubs and around coffee tables both alone and with trackers from across the Northern Hemisphere. This guide contains life-sized drawings of almost 50 of the UK native, domesticated and exotic mammals ranging from the smallest to the largest. Included are almost 40 commonly occurring bird tracks together with reptile and amphibian tracks and common insects.

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  • Great book with life-sized tracks
    By Mila 9 May 2023 Written for Spiralbound
    Tracks are very accurate and made almost 3D, as deepest parts of tracks are shaded stronger, which is very helpful.
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Field / Identification Guide Out of Print
By: John Rhyder(Author)
57 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Woodcraft School
NHBS
This spiralbound waterproof guide to animal tracks found in Britain is a perfect field companion.
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"It’s landed and what a brilliantly laid out field guide I’ve been waiting for this ever since hearing about it on an FSC course led by John Rhyder (an incredibly good course). Also, the first thing I’ve won since primary school. Cannot wait for the accompanying larger work to be available to buy as well. Some things are definitely worth waiting for and a lot of thought has clearly gone into this"
– Richard Andrews, MA Cantab, CEnv, MCIEEM, Consultant Ecologist and Tracker.

"Well now. This weather proof guide just arrived from the magnificent John Rhyder at the Woodcraft School! I’ll have this out with me in the woodland next time. Loads of water bird-life and mammals from deer to mice out there."
– John Amos

"John Rhyder has guided hundreds, if not thousands of people, in the practical study of nature. His bushcraft and natural history courses are renowned for their down-to-earth approach, to a subject often shrouded in myth and fantasy. It’s fitting then that the Animal Tracks Field Guide, the second of Rhyder’s books on natural lore, is equally down-to-earth and practical. As a field guide, it surpasses most others of its kind in its simplicity and usability; the pages are all coated with a weatherproof film, so that mud and water can slide off easily; there is a simple wire binding, so that the pages to be folded back without damaging the spine; the covers have metric scales printed down them, to allow quick measurement of tracks and spoor; and the whole thing is compact enough to stow in a cargo pocket. Simple and practical it may be, but it’s certainly not lacking in detail. The tracks of every commonly encountered British mammal are included, as well as a large number of bird species and invertebrates. The contents pages read more like a key than a guide, listing animals by class, order, family and species, so you don’t have to flick through every picture before finding a match.

Care has been taken with the illustrations to ensure that they resemble tracks rather than footprints. In truth, it’s rare that a whole print will be revealed. Presenting tracks as a series of shapes, Rhyder prepares you for the reality of what you may see on the trail. Ever the teacher, Rhyder has given common and scientific names to each specimen and ensured that both forefoot and rearfoot are represented. He also gives useful (if brief) instructions on how to properly read a track. If you’re expecting long descriptions of substrates, anecdotes about tracking, or lots of wildlife photography, then this is not the book for you. However, if you’re serious about improving your understanding of tracking, and want a practical guide to British wild animal tracks, then look no further. Intended as a companion to a much more exhaustive manual on British wildlife, nevertheless the Animal Tracks Field Guide still works as a standalone volume. Above all else, it encourages the reader to pull on their wellies, get out into the woods and experience nature first hand.

John Rhyder’s Animal Tracks Field Guide represents a step-change in the resource available to professional ecologists and amateur naturalists within the UK.  The level of detail and comprehensiveness of his footprint drawings has come out of a lifetime’s career working in and with nature, coupled with nearly a decade of more intensive study of animal tracks and signs.  As an accomplished naturalist and educator, he instinctively recognises what the field ecologist needs in a practical field guide: accurate, life-size drawings on laminated pages that are ring-bound to allow them to be laid flat next to a track. Ideal!  And there’s even a ruler on the inside of both covers. This is not a book to be read, it’s a book to be used and should live within every serious tracker’s rucksack."
– Josh Hemingway

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