Weather and Bird BehaviourA&C Black, 29 ene 2010 - 276 páginas This classic Poyser title, now in its third revised edition, discusses in depth the various ways in which weather conditions influence bird behaviour. Weather conditions affect food and water availability, decisions about when and how to migrate, timing and success of reproduction, flight style, and physical comfort. Birds display many adaptations in form and behaviour that help them to cope with changing weather conditions, and this fascinating book uses a great variety of examples to explore the subject in depth. The text is enhanced throughout with evocative line drawings, there are many useful tables and figures, and there is also an 8pp colour photograph section. |
Índice
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Introduction | 21 |
CHAPTER ONE The weather | 25 |
CHAPTER TWO Flight | 42 |
CHAPTER THREE Feeding | 56 |
inception and progress | 121 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Migrational drift and displacement | 141 |
CHAPTER NINE Vagrancy | 168 |
CHAPTER TEN Migration of soaring birds | 178 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN Extreme weather | 185 |
CHAPTER TWELVE Seabirds | 207 |
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APPENDIX Mean sea level pressures | 262 |
CHAPTER FOUR Aerial feeding | 74 |
CHAPTER FIVE Breeding | 87 |
CHAPTER SIX Comfort | 109 |
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