Third Edition. — Cambridge: at the Univesity Press, 1929. — 139 p. Any attempt to elucidate the problems connected with the Migration of Birds must, in the present state of knowledge, contain some theory and speculation, but the diligent observations of an army of careful workers yearly add facts, which though they may appear insignificant when considered alone, tend in the...
Free Press, 2009. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-1416559337. Birds — those "upgiven ghosts" who shape our skies — and their many styles of flying have inspired us for centuries. Tim Dee became enthralled with birds as a young boy, and their allure has informed how he perceives time as well as how he sees the world and his place in it. Compelling and poetic, A Year on the Wing is a...
New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974. — 196 p. — ISBN: 0-486-20529-0. Biologists have learned a great deal about bird migration since this book was first published in 1964. While orientation based on the sun and stars is unquestionably important to birds, improved radar observations have shown that birds possess reasonably good orientation when flying under, inside or...
Minneapolis, MN:, University of Minnesota Press, 1955. — 326 p. The migration of birds has doubtless fascinated the mind of man throughout history. Certain iy the artists of the Altemira Caves must already have been interested, since their drawings include migratory species. Practically all over the world some favorite winter absentee is welcomed back as the harbinger of spring...
Lincoln, NE: Zea E-Books, 2012. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60962-029-5. The Central Flyway has been recognized as a collective North- South migratory pathway centered on the North American Great Plains for nearly a century, but it has never been analyzed as the species that most closely follow it, or the major stopping points used by those species on their journeys between their...
Boise, ID: Idaho Bureau of Land Management, 1995. — 66 p. — Technical bulletin. № 95-11. Many species of North American birds migrate south to winter in Neotropical areas of Central and South America. Populations of several species, including raptors, have been shown to be declining. While it is suspected that shooting and the loss of habitat in developing third-world countries...
Springer, 2012. — VIII, 83 p. 25 illus., 4 illus. in color. — ISBN: 978-3-642-27925-6 — (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology). Up-to-date scholarly treatise on the aerodynamics and energetics of the migration of birds This book is an effort to explore the technical aspects associated with bird flight and migration on wings. After a short introduction on the birds...
Revised Edition. — New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. — 111 p. When the birds that have nested in our dooryards and those that have frequented the neighboring woods, hills, and marshes leave us in the fall, the question naturally comes to mind: Where do they go? This, however, is only one small part of the question as we also wonder: Will the same ones return next...
Revised Edition. — Washington, DC: U.S. Goverment Printing Office, 1979. — 130 p. Frederick C. Lincoln's classic work on the "Migration of Birds" first appeared in 1935. It was revised in 1950 and has been out of print for several years, after selling over 140,000 copies. Unfilled requests by many individuals, clubs, and institutions prompted the Office of Conservation...
Fort Collins, CO: United States Department of Agriculture, 2013. — 46 p. A critical question surrounding emergence of novel strains of avian influenza viruses (AIV) is the ability for wild migratory birds to translocate a complete (unreassorted whole genome) AIV intercontinentally. Virus translocation via migratory birds is suspected in outbreaks of highly pathogenic strain...
HarperCollins UK, 2010. — 400 p. — ISBN: 9780007379729. The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available.
Academic Press, 2008. — 976 p. — ISBN13: 9780125173674. This book presents an up-to-date, detailed and thorough review of the most fascinating ecological findings of bird migration. It deals with all aspects of this absorbing subject, including the problems of navigation and vagrancy, the timing and physiological control of migration, the factors that limit their populations,...
Columbia University Press, 2013. - 435 p. ISBN13: 9780231146784 The purpose of migration, regardless of the distance involved, is to exploit two or more environments suitable for survival or reproduction over time, usually on a seasonal basis. Yet individual organisms can practice the phenomenon differently, and birds deploy unique patterns of movement over particular segments...
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins company, 1931. — 176 p. Biological problems can be approached from a number of angles. The specialist views them through the glasses that he habitually wears, with his special interests magnified and in the foreground, a profitable proceeding but likely to suffer from distorted perspective. The gathering up of the viewpoints of the various...
Berlin: Springer, 2016. — 57 p. — ISBN13: 978-3-319-28298-5. Migration patterns of wild birds have been studied for many years using a variety of techniques, including recent various electronic tracking methods. However, more effective and cheaper options will be required if specifi c information is needed on a particular bird species, especially infected wild birds. The...
Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005. — 229 p. How migratory birds can navigate home from their wintering grounds to their breeding sites over hundreds and thousands of kilometres has been an admired mystery over more than a century. Profound advances towards a solution of this problem have been achieved with a model bird, the homing pigeon. This monograph summarizes our...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926. — 252 p. The observations on the migration of birds presented in the following pages were delivered in six lectures before the Lowell Institute in Boston on October 26 and 28, and November 2, 4, 16 and 18, 1925. The manuscript as here published is unchanged except for the inclusion of a few paragraphs that time did not permit to be...
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