Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1991. — 214 p. — ISBN: 0-8117-1016-5. The reproductive cycle in birds and the associated sciences of oology (eggs) and nidology (nests) are complex. From the initiation of the cycle and the enlargement of the gonads, each internal event parallels changes in the behavior of the parent birds and eventually the young as well, first when they leave...
Garden City, NY: The Natural History Press, 1966. — 176 p. There are almost 9,000 species of birds, each with its own particular range. One species mav be found throughout the entire Pacific, another related species may be found on only a single island. The richness and diversity of birds has been not only a source of great pleasure for millions but a source of curiosity for...
Rawlins, WY: Bureau of Land Management, 1998. — 252 p. The Great Divide Resource Area's (GDRA) 1998 raptor monitoring and inventory was the most extensive and coordinated effort in more than 15 years. Six volunteers, recruited this spring, worked in two major areas. The first was the Shamrock Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) west of Rawlins. Two volunteers...
London: Croom Helm, 1985. — 311 p. — ISBN13: 978-9401086523. These stories do not, of course, get us very far in understanding the evolution of tears or anything else, but they do remind us how far the study of behavioural adaptation has come this century. This is, in fact, an exciting time for students of behaviour. The last twenty years have seen a great advance in the...
London: Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co., 1918. - 414 p. The study of the living pheasants in their natural environment in various parts of Eastern Asia — this was the main object of the seventeen months journey through Asia and the East Indies taken by the author of this monograph. The urgency of this journey sprang from the...
London: Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co., 1921. - 504 p. The study of the living pheasants in their natural environment in various parts of Eastern Asia — this was the main object of the seventeen months journey through Asia and the East Indies taken by the author of this monograph. The urgency of this journey sprang from the...
London: Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co., 1922. - 420 p. The study of the living pheasants in their natural environment in various parts of Eastern Asia — this was the main object of the seventeen months journey through Asia and the East Indies taken by the author of this monograph. The urgency of this journey sprang from the...
London: Published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co., 1922. - 484 p. The study of the living pheasants in their natural environment in various parts of Eastern Asia — this was the main object of the seventeen months journey through Asia and the East Indies taken by the author of this monograph. The urgency of this journey sprang from the...
New York: H. Holt and company, 1906. - 496 p. We find today some thirteen or fourteen thousand different forms, or species, of birds upon the earth. For many years ornithologists have laboured to name, and to arrange in some rational order, these multitudinous forms of bird life. Some such arrangement is, of course, a necessity — without a handle we should indeed be handicapped...
New York: Dover Publications, Ink., 1971. — 418 p. — ISBN: 0-486-22699-9. Bird Study has been written to serve as the basis for a onesemester course in ornithology for liberal arts students. The needs of such students can be met neither by offering them a "watered-down" version of a reference work on ornithology nor by offering them an emasculated text that leaves them with...
Comstock Publishing Associates, 2017. — 336 p. Raptors are formally classified into five families and include birds - such as eagles, ospreys, kites, true hawks, buzzards, harriers, vultures, and falcons - that are familiar and recognized by many observers. These diurnal birds of prey are found on every continent except Antarctica and can thrive in seemingly inhospitable spots...
Surrey, B.C. Canada: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 1987. — 464 p. The Raptor Literature. Lloyd Kiff, Rob G. Bijlsma, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, and Jevgeni Shergalin Raptor Identification, Ageing, and Sexing. William S. Clark Systematics. Michael Wink Study Design, Data Management, Analysis, and Presentation. James C. Bednarz Survey Techniques. David E. Andersen Migration Counts...
Academic Press, 1996. - 396 p. ISBN13: 978-0121001308. This book is a collection of papers highlighting ways in which Raptors have successfully adapted to man-made landscapes and structures. The coverage of "Raptors in Human Landscapes" is broad, ranging from the impact of human activity on country-wide scales to the particular conditions associated with urban, cultivated, and...
Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2004. — 452 p. — ISBN: 1-55297-925-3. Why an almanac on birds? The idea actually took root because ot the phone calls. As a regular columnist on birds for The Gazette of Montreal for two decades and on bird behavior for Bird Watchers Digest for over a decade, I get numerous phone calls on a weekly basis concerning birds. While many are desperately...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 545 p. Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully...
T & AD Poyser Ltd., 1991. — 272 p. Magpies are unmistakeable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant manner. While their persecution at the hands of gamekeepers over the last hundred years has made them wary and difficult to approach, a number of recent field studies, both in Europe and North America, have successfully revealed the intricacies of the magpie way of...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 544 p. "I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg", Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862. How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the...
London: BBC Publications, 1986. — 168 p. — ISBN: 0-563-20453-2. Birds for all Seasons is a superbly illustrated celebration of the beauty, diversity and wonder of birds. Jeffery Boswall takes a fresh look at the bird life of the planet, emphasising the response of birds to the changing seasons: the annual cycles of darkness and light in the frozen polar wastes of the Arctic and...
Columbus, OH: Ohio State Univ., 1991. — 28 p. This teacher guide and student workbook set containstwo learning activities, designed for fifth through ninth gradestudents, that concentrate on the adaptations of shorebird beaks fora variety of habitats and food sources, and the effect oftoxicchemicals in the food chain on the birds. In activity A, studentsdiscover how shorebirds...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2003. — 334 p. Featuring updated data for this second edition, this is a field guide to the tracks and signs of European birds. It describes, with colour illustrations, the many physical signs that can be found in the field. From feathers and skulls to prey remains and pellets, the volume seeks to enable the field ornithologist to establish...
London: CRC Press, 2016. — 593 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4822-5114-2. — Marine Science Series. This book is a result of the authors' more than 40 years of study on the behavior, populations, and heavy metals in the colonial waterbirds nesting in Barnegat Bay and the nearby estuaries and bays in the Northeastern United States. From Boston Harbor to the Chesapeake, based on longitudinal...
London, HarperCollins, 2013. - 461 p. This book in the respected New Naturalist series is the first book on the natural history of terns to be published since 1934. It covers in detail the five tern species that breed in Britain and Ireland; three of these (Common, Roseate and Arctic Terns) also breed in North America and the other two (Little and Sandwich Terns) have close...
CSIRO Publishing, 2007. — 232 p. — ISBN13: 9780643092327. Cockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds. Of the 21 recognised species, 14 occur in Australia, with three of these also found in New Guinea. Seven species are distributed across the islands of south-east Asia. While many species are common or abundant, an increasing number face extinction due to habitat...
Digital Edition. — CRC Press; 1 edition, 2015. — 374 p. — ISBN: 978-1482223613. This book reexamines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae) and seeks answers to past and present regional extinctions, colorizations, and conservation questions. Extinct species of both...
2nd Edition. - Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 348 p. ISBN13: 978-0521872423 Bird song is one of the most remarkable and impressive sounds in the natural world, and has inspired not only students of natural history, but also great writers, poets and composers. Extensively updated from the first edition, the main thrust of this book is to suggest that the two main functions...
CSIRO Publishing, 2009. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-0643096028. "Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds" presents an up-to-date classification of Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, "The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories", it incorporates the extensive volume of relevant systematic work since then. The findings of these studies are...
Washington, DC: Goverment printing office, 1910. — 101 p. Shorebirds form a valuable national resource, and it is the plain duty of the present generation to pass on to posterity this asset undiminished in value. Consistent and intelligent legislation in favor of any group of birds must be rounded on extended, accurate information, and must include knowledge of the breeding and...
Chester, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 1989. — 235 p. — ISBN Birds are among the most attractive and accessible creatures in the natural world. They delight scientists and nonscientists alike with their physical traits, instinctive behaviors, and songs. They can be studied and enjoyed in the field as well as in the classroom. The World of Birds: A Layman's Guide to Ornithology is...
Bloomsbury Natural History, 2015. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-1408-1-9023-4. Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behavior abound. For example: Why do male Fairywrens bring flowers to females as a nuptial gift in the pre-dawn darkness? Especially when the gift-givers are not the official mates of the females concerned, but visitors, who furthermore...
London: Bloomsbury, 2015. — 224 p. ISBN-10:1408190230. Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behavior abound. For example: Why do male Fairywrens bring flowers to females as a nuptial gift in the pre-dawn darkness? Especially when the gift-givers are not the official mates of the females concerned, but visitors, who furthermore may give these...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. — 296 p. —ISBN: 978-0199589029. — Oxford Avian Biology Series. Book 2. In nature there exist three main types of biotic interactions between individuals of different species: competition, predation, and mutualism. All three exert powerful selection pressures, and all three shape communities. However, the question of how important...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. — 336 p. ISBN13: 978-0292726826. Breeding on remote ocean islands and spending much of its life foraging for food across vast stretches of seemingly empty seas, the albatross remains a legend for most people. And yet, humans are threatening the albatross family to such an extent that it is currently the most threatened bird group in the...
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. — 262 p. The present work is an attempt to afford a practical and comprehensive survey of the living birds of the world for the benefit of those who have not the time or inclination to engage in dissection or detailed museum work, but wish to form, from simple ordinary observation of living or stuffed birds, some idea of the relationships and...
London: Purnell and Sons Limited, 1964. — 259 p. Each of us has enjoyed a life in which, for close on half a century, his major preoccupation has been with birds. The most beautiful, the most observable animals of the world have occupied our daily lives, have filled our dreams, dominated our reading, directed our conversation. For the last twelve years we have watched birds...
New York. Oxford, England. 236 P. Extinct Birds is an absorbing study of the world's recently extinct bird species, the first complete survey since Walter Rothschild's classic work of 1907. Drawing together many strands of evidence and supposition, Errol Fuller succeeds in combining scientific accuracy with a lively and readable style. Since 1600 some 75 bird species have...
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999. — 32 p. — ISBN13: 978-1580172394. Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers...
Third Edition. — New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2006. — 758 p. ISBN13: 978-0716749837. "Ornithology" is the classic text for the undergraduate ornithology course, long admired for its evolutionary approach to bird science. The new edition maintains the scope and expertise that made the book so popular while incorporating the latest research and updating the exquisite...
Bloomsbury Natural History, 2017. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1472937650. This bestseller combines full identification and behavioral features of over seventy common garden bird species, with detailed information on attracting birds to your garden. The clear illustrations and text are presented in an easy-to-use format and provide practical bird identification information to the...
London: Published by the author, 1880-1881. — 74 p. There appears to be some uncertainty as to the actual publication of the final 10 sheets without plates (Part II). These were written by Gould but edited by Richard Bowdler Sharpe... The remaining pages may have been sold by the printer without authority.
Cambridge University Press, 2002, 280 p. Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour provides a broad view of our current understanding of the biology of the nests, bowers, and tools made by birds. It illustrates how birds, among vertebrates, have more impressive and consistent building abilities than any other builders, excluding humans. However, birds seem to require no special...
Reprint Edition. — Harper Perennial, 2007. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-0061136054. Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can be spied on only by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father", as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines and, in the process,...
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007. — 177 p. — Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology. — ISBN13: 978-0-292-71451-9. Before modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation "oology" and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs:...
CRC Press, 2015. — 535 p. — ISBN: 978-1498748421. Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared. This book investigates who birds are and why they do what they do. Daily, seasonal, and play activities,...
Washington, D.C.: US Government printihg office, 1967. — 24 p. — Special Scientific Report. Wildlife №103 The most important nesting areas of the black brant ( Branta bernicla nigricans ) are on the Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska. Consequently, this species is of particular concern to management of the refuge. This bibliography was...
New York, NY: The John Day Company, 1971. — 163 p. Discusses the physical characteristics, learning patterns, growth, and relationship with parents of various baby birds. Also describes the nests and eggs of different species.
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Natural History, 2017. — 610 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4729-3744-5. Covering both familiar icons of extinction as well as more obscure birds, some known from just one specimen or from traveler's tales, Extinct Birds looks at hundreds of species from the sub-fossil record--birds that disappeared without ever being recorded. Julian Hume and Michael Walters...
Second Edition. — London: Bloomsburry, 2017. — 609 p. — ISBN: 1472937449. Extinct Birds was the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of the bird species and subspecies that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. It has become the standard text on this subject, covering both familiar icons of extinction as...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. — 409 p. — ISBN: 0-19-511042-0. Great advances have been made in the theoretical basis of exploitative social interactions such as social parasitism, and many well-documented field studies of this phenomenon in birds have been performed. Indeed, so many studies are being published on topics related to avian brood parasitism that some of...
Smithsonian, 1994. — 384 p. — ISBN13: 978-1560983156. In 1871, more than a decade after he unveiled the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin laid out the principles of sexual selection. He suggested that alongside the traits that enable species to survive are those that confer sexual advantage on individuals within the species and thus insure greater transmission to offspring of...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. — 498 p. The only one-volume comprehensive survey of the family Anatidae available in English, this book combines lavish illustration with information on the natural history, distribution and status, and identification of all the species. After an introductory discussion of the thirteen tribes of Anatidae, separate accounts...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2016. — 110 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-082-0. The seven species of swans of the world are an easily and universally recognized group of waterfowl, which have historically played important roles in the folklore, myths and legends in many of the world’s cultures. Among the largest of all flying birds, they have also almost universally been used as symbols of...
Bloomsbury Natural History, 2017. — 344 p. In this stunning book, Lars Jonsson celebrates and explores the beauty of the birds that surround him during the Swedish winter months. Inspired by the desolate, wintry landscapes, the dazzling light and the stark contract of colours he observes against the snow, Jonsson has created an unparalleled collection of art. Jonsson...
CSIRO Publishing, 2004. — 142 p. — ISBN13: 978-0643090682. The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most well-known birds....
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois press, 1952. — 385 p. — (Illinois Biological Monographs. Volume XXII. Nos. 1-3). The study of bird behavior is of intense interest to a great many people. A few fortunate individuals are able to pursue this study vocationally, but to most it can be no more than a hobby. Bird behavior is complex, varied, and challenging at all seasons of the...
Texas A&M University Press, 1989. — 275 p. — ISBN: 0-89096-466-1. This book reports my observations of American Crows ( Corvus brachyrhynchos ) on a cattle ranch in Florida where the crows were unusually tame and on a farm in New Hampshire where they were wary, as they are in most places. My aim has been to make a study of all aspects of crow behavior. As often happens, it...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 304 p. ISBN13: 978-0521530996. Cooperative breeders are species in which more than two individuals participate in raising young at a single nest. Although relatively rare, this behavior entails dramatic forms of cooperation and competition, and provides important insights into many areas, including sexual selection, incest...
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009. — 356 p. — ISBN: 978-0-618-75336-9. The seasons of birdsong follow the seasons of the sun. As the sun dips low in the winter sky, the northern woods fall quiet; those few birds who remain call softly as they search for food to survive the short days and long, cold nights. As the sun makes its comeback, beginning in late December on...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. — 343 p. This book is a sequel to The Natural Regulation of Animal Number's (1954) and is a critical assessment of the ideas there put forward in the light of the longterm studies of bird populations carried out since it was written. The book is therefore concerned with such problems as breeding seasons, clutch-size, age of maturity,...
Chicago, IL: University Of Chicago Press, 2010. — 460 p. — ISBN13: 978-0226647272. Whether we live in cities, in the suburbs, or in the country, birds are ubiquitous features of daily life, so much so that we often take them for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don’t fill our skies in the number they once did. That awareness has spawned conservation...
Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2016. — 262 p. — ISBN13: 9781604697520. When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs guides the reader through the myriad, and often...
Timber Press, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1604695465. While Latin is officially an "ancient" language, it's useful in so many areas of modern life, including bird watching. Birdwatchers need a universal language when they're speaking about birds, since common names vary by region. Latin for Bird Lovers answers this call, introducing more than 3,000 words to describe birds....
Catania: GLE, 2017. — 339 p. The lanner falcons (Falco biarmicus) has always been viewed as an "oddity", and even the name has a contorted history, with both common and scientific names being subject to debate. Its very existence as a separate Species has also been called into question and even today, as has been the case in the past, much has been written with regard to the...
Berlin: Springer, 2012. — 162 p. — ISBN: 978-3-642-25301-0. After having read this book you will never see birds in the same way again. The unexpected patterns displayed by a bird’s body have been seen as bizarre events that demanded little attention or were described as ‘amazing curiosities’. None of these surprising features seem to be fortuitous. They appear to be an...
CSIRO Publishing, 2008. — 155 p. — ISBN13: 978-0643094215. Despite their iconic cultural status, real albatrosses are largely confined to the region referred to by early mariners as the "Roaring Forties" and the "Furious Fifties", otherwise known as the Southern Ocean. The single most distinctive characteristic of these birds is that they ride storms. Aside from a few close...
London: David & Charles, 1983. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-71538-219-6. Depicts the behavior, flight, and migratory habits of the various types of petrels and describes the author's efforts to study these sea birds.
London: Charles H. Kelly, 1911. - 332 p. I WONDER how often children say, and bigger people too, that there is nothing to see? Perhaps they are told to go for a walk; and they say, "Oh, that is such an ugly way; there is nothing to do, and nothing to see". Then another direction is suggested, but they don't like that one any better; there also, they say, there is "nothing to...
3rd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 730 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-29105-4. This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better...
3rd Edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 730 p. — ISBN: 978-1-118-29105-4. This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better...
New York, NY: Nova Publishers, 2015. — 158 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-63463-527-1. Humans have altered and created entirely new environments to which animals have either adapted or been extirpated. Urban environments are one of the most extreme examples of how humans have changed previous habitats. Urban environments present massive challenges for birds living in these spaces and the...
London: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 608 p. ISBN13: 978-0195183238. With more than 5,000 works cited, Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World is the greatest compendium of information ever published on hybridization in birds. Worldwide in scope, it provides information on all reported avian crosses, not only those occurring in captivity, but also in a natural setting...
Sidney, CSIRO Publishing, 2005. - 144 p. ISBN13: 978-0643091337 This is the first book to deal exclusively with the Australian members of the Family Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns). It gives a comprehensive, easy-to-read account of their origins, classification and biology, and explains the features that distinguish them from other birds. The book devotes a major chapter...
Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2004. — 276 p. — ISBN13: 978-0120139354. Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. As observations have shown, these climatic changes have serious consequences for all organisms and their ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Birds are excellent model organisms, with a very active...
Springer, 2017. — 124 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-50282-3 This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands. This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate ecosystems assessment,...
Ben Morgan -Guide to Birds (Dk Guide) This dazzling guide presents the vast and diverse world of birds, from tiny South American hummingbirds to flightless Antarctic penguins. Extraordinary photography and expertly written text on behavior, habitats, and social structures present birds in greater detail than young readers have ever seen. DK Guide to Birds is perfect for...
Reaktion Books, 2009. — 224 p. From Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat to David Lynch’s Twin Peaks , owls have been woven into the fabric of popular culture. At times they are depicted as dignified, wise old scholars and at other times as foreboding voyeurs who see all and interrogate with an accusatory, “Who? Who?” In Owl best-selling author Desmond Morris explores the...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. — 608 p. — ISBN: 9780007527991. In the latest addition to the New Naturalist series, Ian Newton explores bird populations and what causes their fluctuation – food supplies, competitors, predators, parasites, pathogens and human activity. The combination of a rapidly expanding human population, a predominantly utilitarian attitude to land, central...
Poyser, 2010. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-1408138533. Dr Newton's book is concerned with all aspects of population regulation in diurnal birds of prey, their social behaviour, dispersion, numbers, movements, breeding and mortality. He has drawn on his own studies in Scotland and on material and investigations worldwide to produce an authoritative and stimulating synthesis of current...
Academic Press, 1998. — 597 p. — ISBN: 9780080879239. This book meets the demand for a comprehensive introduction to understanding the processes of population limitation. Recognized world-wide as a respected biologist and communicator, Dr. Ian Newton has now written a clear and detailed treatise on local scale population limiting factors in birds. It is based almost entirely on...
London: W.H. Allen & Co, Ltd., 1895. — 401 p. In preparing the present volume, which includes the first half of the species commonly termed Game-Birds , my great aim has been to treat the subject in such a way that this little book may not only be useful as a scientific work of reference, but also as a handy book for sportsmen and field naturalists. With its aid, they should be...
London: W.H. Allen & Co, Ltd., 1897. — 411 p. The second volume of this work contains an account of all the remaining species of the Order Gallinae or True Game-Birds, as well as that curious and aberrant form the Hoatzin, and the Bustard-Quails. The subject has been treated in exactly the same way as in the previous volume, and the short descriptions of the adult male and...
Washington, DC: Bureau of Land Management, 1992. — 60 p. Published in 1987, Fish and Wildlife 2000 — A Plan for the Future is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) comprehensive, long range national strategy plan for managing the fish, wildlife, and special status plant resources on the 270 million acres of BLM lands into the 2 1 st century. Fish and Wildlife 2000 stated the...
Washington, DC: Bureau of Land Management, 1980. — 64 p. The techniques of raptor management underwent a decade of intensive research during the 1970s. Raptor conservation, including species protection and management, as well as habitat protection and management, now receives unprecedented attention stemming generally from the increasing interest in nongame wildlife. Highlights...
CSIRO Publishing, 2005. — 120 p. — ISBN13: 978-0643091658. Australia’s Wedge-tailed Eagle belongs to the family of eagles, which together span the world. Eagles are powerful predators, with exceptional powers of flight and sight. They may kill to survive, but they also sleep, play, enjoy a bath, make tender parents, and form lasting relationships. This book gives a...
Sofia - Moscow: Pensoft Publishers, 2009. — 260 p. This monograph summarizes the results of research into the age and sex structure, survival rate, longevity and the population dynamics of songbirds (passerines). The emphasis is on the demographic parameters of breeding and migrating birds of the Eastern Baltic, although population studies of songbirds from other parts of the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. - 644 p. ISBN: 978-0198502135. "Bird Families of the World" series. The cuckoos are the most variable birds in social behavior and parental care: a few cuckoos are among the most social of all birds and rear their young in a common nest; most cuckoos are caring parents that rear their own young with some females laying a few eggs in the nests of...
Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1979. — 411 p. — ISBN: 0895770652. Birds are among the most captivating creatures on earth. They are arguably the most colorful animals on earth. As well, they have some of the most unique and diverse survival, feeding, breeding & rearing of young, home-building skills of all creatures, to speak nothing of their means of travel...
Detailed illustrated guide in German about Woodpeckers in the forest ecosystem. Arbeitshilfe Nr. 11.30 Fachbereich Bibliothek und Schule Schulbiologiezentrum, Februar 2010 - 23 c. Inhaltsverzeichnis Methodisch-didaktische Vorbemerkungen Sachinformation Die Rolle des Spechts im Ökosystem Wald Inhaltsbezogene Kompetenzen Arbeitsblätter Literaturverzeichnis Abbildungsnachweis
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 380 p. — "Bird Families of the World" series. — ISBN: 978-0198546535. The Hawaiian Honeycreepers are typified by nectar feeding, their bright colouration, and canary-like songs. They are considered one of the finest examples of adaptive radiation, even more diverse than Darwin's Galapagos finches, as a wide array of different species has evolved...
Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, 1995. — 422 p. — General technical report PSW. № 152. This report on the Marbled Murrelet ( Brachyramphus marmoratus ) was compiled and editied by the interagency Marbled Murrelet Conservation Assessment Core Team. The 37 chapters cover both original studies and literature reviews of many aspects of the species' biology, ecology,...
London: Hutchinson, 1907. - 386 p. The study of the forms of life no longer existing on the earth, from the scanty remains preserved to us, has provolied a very great interest almost from the commencement of historical times. The very small portion of this vast field I am treating of in the following pages has a special attraction, as it deals to a great extent with forms...
CSIRO Publishing, 2008. - 144 p. The bowerbirds (family Ptilonorhynchidae) are famed for their unique bower-building behavior. In some species, the bower can be a complex construction of sticks and other vegetable matter that can grow to two meters in diameter and one-and-a-half meters high. Many species are also accomplished mimics, and are able to copy the calls of other bird...
Nova Science Pub Inc, 2013. - 175 p. ISBN: 1629481041 In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the evolution and behaviour, breeding strategies, migration and spread of disease within the bird species. Topics discussed in this compilation include sex determination in birds; structure and function of the avian respiratory system, with discussion...
CRC Press, 2002. — 741 p. The book provides the only complete summary of information about marine birds ever published. It both summarizes and analyzes their breeding biology, ecology, taxonomy, evolution, fossil history, physiology, energetics, and conservation. The book covers four orders of marine birds: penguins (Sphenisciformes); albatross, shearwaters, petrels...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 170 p. Essential Ornithology provides the reader with a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of birds, one of the most widely studied taxonomic groups. The book starts with the controversial question of the dinosaur origins of birds and their subsequent evolution. Development, anatomy, and physiology are then discussed followed...
University of Chicago, 2016. — 398 p. — ISBN10: 022638263X. The first book to approach ecosystem services from an ornithological perspective, Why Birds Matter asks what economic value we can ascribe to those services, if any, and how this value should inform conservation. Chapters explore the role of birds in such important ecological dynamics as scavenging, nutrient cycling,...
London: Published by the author, 1876-1880. — 764 p. I believe that my first attraction towards the family of Sun-birds took place in Nubia, where I fell in with Hedydifna metallica , the first truly tropical form of bird that I had ever procured. The sense of pleasure with which I preserved my first specimens of this beautiful little species on the banks of the Nile above the...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. — 295 p. — ISBN: 978-0-805-01952-0. Since the beginning of history, humans have been intrigued by the stunning variety and inventiveness of bird behavior. Why do some oceanic seabirds serve their chicks no more than two or three meals a week, while the Pied Flycatcher must feed its young thirty-three times an hour? How did the Woodpecker...
Washington, DC: Bureau of Land Management, 1977. — 12 p. The Accipiters, or bird hawks, are long-tailed hunters with short rounded wings that enable them to fly fast and have high maneuverability. They feed mainly on small birds taken on the wing and on small mammals. Included in the Accipiter group are the goshawks, Cooper's hawks, and sharp-shinned hawks. They are less...
Alfred A. Knopf, lnc., 2001. — 611 p From the creator of the seminal field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, comes another indispensable book for bird watchers. This veritable bible to the world of birds is the collaborative effort of 48 expert birders and biologists, who combine scientific accuracy and detail with an easily readable and well-organized format. How does a tiny...
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. - 328 p. ISBN13: 978-0877456742. In this work naturalist and ornithologist Alexander Skutch provides detailed accounts of a remarkable aspect of bird behaviour - the aid that one bird gives another who is neither its mater nor its dependent young and who may even belong to a different species.
Texas A&M University Press, 1995. — 200 p. — ISBN13: 978-0890967591. In this controversial culmination of a lifelong quest, Alexander F. Skutch, a well-known ornithologist who has studied birds for more than sixty years, makes a case for "believing that birds' mental capacities have been grossly underestimated." Lacking hard scientific proofs of what birds think and feel, we...
Cheyenne, WY: Bureau of Land Management, 2011. — 36 p. — BLM Technical Note. № 436. Raptor nest monitoring may be utilized to guide federal land-use planning, protect raptors, and assess the potential impacts of oil and gas development projects. The utility of monitoring programs is compromised when a program is not designed to address specific objectives and when the survey...
London: T&AD Poyser, 2010. — 268 p. — ISBN13: 978-1408138212. The book's subtitle — A study of an ecological interaction — properly reflects the author's theme but may tend to hide the fact that the relationships between birds and berries can be much more than the simple, mutually advantageous systems ('eat my fruits, spread my seeds' ) they may seem at first to be. Therein...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 312 p. — ISBN13: 978-1444334821. Conservation of Tropical Birds has been written by four conservation biologists whose expertise spans all the tropical regions of the world. It is the first book to cover all the major issues in tropical bird conservation. Current problems faced by tropical bird conservationists are summarised and potential...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 636 p. — ISBN13: 978-0521372985. Stacey and Koenig discuss the phenomenon of cooperative breeding among birds, an unusual kind of social behavior common to only a few hundred species worldwide, in which individuals other than the male-female pairs help to raise the young of a single nest or den. Because certain individuals aid in...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 9780316817226. Learn about the behavior and lives of your favorite birds. There are three volumes of Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior and each volume covers 25 species. Book is richly illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings and contains a wealth of information — about each bird's songs, calls, displays,...
Curitiba, Parana, Brasil: Hori Consultoria Ambiental, 2015. — 273 p. — ISBN: 978-85-62546-10-5. Language: Portuguese. Terceiro volume da serie Ruinas e Urubus que trata da historia da Ornitologia no Parana, neste volume abrangendo cronistas, exploradores e viajantes que contribuiram com a ciencia ornitologica paranaense entre os anos de 1901 e 1909.
Curitiba, Parana, Brasil: Hori Consultoria Ambiental, 2012. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978-85-62546-05-1. Language: Portuguese. Terceiro volume da serie Ruinas e Urubus que trata da historia da Ornitologia no Parana, neste volume abrangendo cronistas, exploradores e viajantes que contribuiram com a ciencia ornitologica paranaense entre os anos de 1835 e 1865.
Curitiba, Parana, Brasil: Hori Consultoria Ambiental, 2013. — 314 p. — ISBN: 978-85-62546-06-8. Language: Portuguese. Terceiro volume da serie Ruinas e Urubus que trata da historia da Ornitologia no Parana, neste volume abrangendo cronistas, exploradores e viajantes que contribuiram com a ciencia ornitologica paranaense entre os anos de 1835 e 1865.
Curitiba, Parana, Brasil: Hori Consultoria Ambiental, 2011. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-85-62546-03-7. Language: Portuguese. Primeiro numero da serie Ruinas e urubus que trata da historia da Ornitologia no Parana, neste volume abrangendo cronistas, exploradores e viajantes que contribuiram com a ciencia ornitologica paranaense entre os anos de 1541 e 1819.
Chicago: Field Museum press, 1939. — 479 p. — Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological series. Volume 25, part 1. This work is the result of a series of activities, and its final scope was not anticipated for some years. In the course of some studies of bird morphology and related topics, about three thousand references were accumulated. During the preparation of a still...
Chicago: Field Museum press, 1939. — 483 p. — Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological series. Volume 25, part 2. This work has been done with the perhaps Utopian ambition to secure completeness within the limits indicated in the subtitle and on page three of the preface to volume one. Nevertheless, in spite of laborious efforts, omissions have occurred, for which only...
Chicago: Field Museum press, 1946. — 541 p. — Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological series. Volume 25, part 3. The manuscript of this Subject Index was apparently ready in the summer of 1939. Study, however, revealed that most of it could be improved by rearrangement and that much checking for accuracy was needed. Each item was checked against the Author Catalogue by...
Chicago: Field Museum press, 1959. — 206 p. — Field Museum of Natural History. Zoological series. Volume 25, part 4. Because many topics and names of species or of groups occur in two or more (often many) places in the Subject Index, a Finding Index is essential. In it, we have one continuous alphabetically arranged list. Thus references to the ear, eggs, or Anas occur in many...
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010. — 194 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-6420-5 Impaired Predator Evasion in the Life History of Birds: Behavioral and Physiological Adaptations to Reduced Flight Ability. Dietary Calcium Availability and Reproduction in Birds. Seasonal Metabolic Variation in Birds: Functional and Mechanistic Correlates. Assessing Cause–Effect Relationships in...
Springer, 2018. — 266 p. The average person can name more bird species than they think, but do we really know what a bird "species" is? This open access book takes up several fascinating aspects of bird life to elucidate this basic concept in biology. From genetic and physiological basics to the phenomena of bird song and bird migration, it analyzes various interactions of...
Springer, 2018. — 266 p. The average person can name more bird species than they think, but do we really know what a bird "species" is? This open access book takes up several fascinating aspects of bird life to elucidate this basic concept in biology. From genetic and physiological basics to the phenomena of bird song and bird migration, it analyzes various interactions of...
University of California Press, 2015. — 346 p. Parrots of the Wild explores recent scientific discoveries and what they reveal about the lives of wild parrots, which are among the most intelligent and rarest of birds. Catherine A. Toft and Tim Wright discuss the evolutionary history of parrots and how this history affects perceptual and cognitive abilities, diet and foraging...
Nova Science, 2011. - 175 p. Birds are a commonly acknowledged indicator of biodiversity. This book presents an indigenous perspective on the effects of traditional activities on birds. Moreover, birds are among the main components for plant reproduction in tropical ecosystems, hummingbirds being the most important vertebrate pollinators in the Neotropics. This book puts...
Bloomsbury Natural History, 2016. — 128 p. Eagles are among the most impressive hunters of the animal world. Their predatory prowess and flying skills have imbued them with a romance and mystique that runs deep in our culture and has elevated them to emblems of freedom and power across the globe. At the same time, however, people have long seen eagles as competitors. Reviled by...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 1059 p. Would you like to be able to identify any bird species in Europe, in all plumages, in every season? ID Handbook of European Birds is the resource for you. This identification handbook blends incisive descriptions with stunning high-resolution photos to provide the most comprehensive, in-depth coverage of European birds available....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 276 p. — ISBN13: 978-0521633628. Wetland birds provide us with some of nature's most wonderful sights — from vast flocks soaring overhead to newly-hatched chicks drying in the sun. Apart from their beauty and recreational and economic importance, these birds are excellent indicators of water quality and measures of biodiversity....
Princeton University Press, 2007. — 459 p. — ISBN13: 9780691123233. Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. Birder's Conservation Handbook is the only book of its kind, written specifically to help birders and researchers understand the threats while providing...
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1930. — 14 p. Since preparing a classification of North American birds in collaboration with the late W. deW. Miller, of the American Museum of Natural History, for use in the fourth edition of the official Checklist of the American Ornithologists' Union, now in course of publication, the writer has continued investigations in this...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 461 p. — ISBN13: 978-0521322515. Areas of barren rock and scree around the edge of Antarctica provide a breeding ground for two of the continent's most well-known species of bird: the south polar skua and the Adelie penguin. This book considers the relationship between these two species, taking as its study site Ross Island....
Chapel Hill, NC:The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 264 p. — ISBN13: 978-0807872291. While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascinating birds can be the ones perched right outside our windows. In thirty-five engaging and sometimes irreverent vignettes, Yow reveals...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 335 p. — ISBN: 0-19-854079-5 Historical Note Systematics and phylogeny Distribution and habitat Morphology, domestication and moult Feeding ecology Drinking, water relations and temperature regulation Coloniality and breeding ecology Breeding periodicity Populations Social and reproductive behaviour Vocalisations SexUal imprinting and mate...
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