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Birds of tropical America : a watcher's introduction to behavior, breeding, and diversity
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Birds of tropical America : a watcher's introduction to behavior, breeding, and diversity / Steven Hilty ; illustrations by Mimi Hoppe Wolf.
ISBN
1881527565
9781881527565
Published
Shelburne, Vt. : Chapters Publishing Ltd., c1994.
Physical Description
304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2012
Series
Curious naturalist series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-295) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Dreams meet reality in the American tropics : a preface
Avian addresses : structure of a rainforest bird community
Tropical diversity : why so many bird species in tropical forests?
Ghosts of rainforests past : Amazonian biogeography
High-Andean genealogy : unraveling Ice Age secrets
Tropical travelers : migration within the Tropics
The clubbiest of clubs : life in a mixed-species flock
Antbirds don't eat ants : rhythms and rituals at ant swarms
Who is the fairest? Colorfulness in tropical and temperate birds
Fruit of the land : birds, fruit and seed dispersal
Anatomy of a fruit eater : foraging tactics of fruit-eating birds
A good song and dance : alternative life-styles of manakins and cotingas
Territories or traplines? Hummingbird foraging strategies
Cold reality : highland hummingbirds
Sallying forth : a flycatcher Baedeker
Finding a needle in the haystack : a vulture's view of paradise
The costs and benefits of growing old : life and love among the caciques
Sound strategies : sopranos should sing from the treetops
Perilous paradise : tropical river islands
In search of a season : when do tropical birds nest?
Bibliography
Index.
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