Avian ecology and conservation in an urbanizing world. Click here to buy
Marzluff, John M. et al.
$285.00
Hardback, 600 pp., illustrations, maps. BRAND NEW.
This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us. One of the most striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-cover as we settle a region. Much of our ecological understanding about this process comes from studies of birds, yet the existing literature is scattered, mostly decades old, and rarely synthesized or standardized. The twenty-seven contributions authored by leaders in the fields of avian and urban ecology present a unique summary of current research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to exurban, rural to urban. Ecologists, land managers, wildlife managers, evolutionary ecologists, urban planners, landscape architects, and conservation biologists will find our information useful because we address the conservation and evolutionary implications of urban life from an ecological and planning perspective. Graduate students in these fields also will find the volume to be a useful summary and synthesis of current research, extant literature, and prescriptions for future work. All interested in human-driven land-cover changes will benefit from a perusal of this book because we present high altitude photographs of each study area.
Bird census techniques. Click here to buy
Bibby, Colin J. et al.
$133.00
Octavo, laminated boards, 302 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW.
A concise guide to the various census techniques and to the opportunities and pitfalls each entails. The common methods are described in detail, and illustrated through an abundance of diagrams showing examples of actual and theoretical census techniques. (ISBN: 0120958317) (EAN: 9780120958313)
Bird ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques. Click here to buy
Sutherland, William J. et al.
$115.00
Octavo, paperback, 386 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW.
Includes sections on Bird diversity survey methods. Bird census and survey techniques. Breeding biology. Birds in the hand. Estimating survival and movement. Radio-tagging. Migration. Information from dead and dying birds. Techniques in physiology and genetics. Diet and foraging behaviour. Habitat assessment. Conservation management of endangered birds. Exploitation. Habitat Management. Also available in hardcover. (ISBN: 0198520867) (EAN: 9780198520863)
Bird migration. Click here to buy
Alerstam, Thomas.
$110.00
Large octavo, paperback, 420 pp., illustrations.
The aim of this book is to give a general overview of the whole migration phenomenon. Details of many amazing peculiarities and unresolved questions are included.
Bird migration: a general survey. Click here to buy
Berthold, Peter.
$120.00
Octavo, paperback, 253 pp., illustrations.
The question of how birds migrate over enormous distances with apparently minimal guidance continues to excite both professional and amateur ornithologists. Nearly ten years have elapsed since Peter Berthold, a leading researcher in the field, wrote the first edition of this highly readable and fascinating book. During that time the field has advanced by strides, so that this new edition has been extensively revised, expanded and updated. No other book exists that brings together the vast amount of information that is available on the subject of bird migration, so that this book will be an inspiration to birdwatchers, naturalists, and ornithologists alike.
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Bird migration: a short account. Click here to buy
Thomson, A. Landsborough.
$15.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 192 pp., photographs, signature, bookplate.
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Bird migration: a short account. Click here to buy
Thomson, A. Landsborough.
$20.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 183 pp., photographs, bookplate.
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Bird monitoring methods: a manual of techniques for UK species. Click here to buy
Gilbert, Gillian et al.
$60.00
Quarto, paperback, 464 pp., illustrations.
Designed as a practical guide to surveying and monitoring techniques for use in the breeding season - in assessing breeding success as well as population levels - and during the winter. It gives instructions for more than 120 UK bird species, mainly those of conservation concern. Methods used in the UK's main national bird monitoring schemes are also outlined with advice on how to participate in them. In addition, the publication provides advice on the reliability of the methods, sampling, statistics and species protection. An essential reference for all involved in bird monitoring programmes.
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Birds and forestry. Click here to buy
Avery, Mark and Roderick Leslie.
$70.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 299 pp., illustrations, bookplate, as new.
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Down the long wind: a study of bird migration. Click here to buy
Christian, Garth.
$40.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 240 pp., photographs, signature, bookplate.
Ecogeographical variation in size and proportions of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Click here to buy
Aldrich, John W.
$32.00
134 pp.
(ISBN: 0943610445)
Ecological isolation in birds. Click here to buy
Lack, David.
$65.00
Octavo, 404 pp., illustrations by Robert Gillmor, fine copy in chipped dustwrapper.
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Estimating numbers of terrestrial birds. Click here to buy
Ralph, C. John and J. Michael Scott, editors.
$140.00
630 pp.,
(ISBN: 1930665776) (EAN: 9781930665774)
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Fireside waterfowler: fundamentals of duck and goose ecology. Click here to buy
Wesley, David E. and William G. Leitch.
$70.00
Quarto, 352 pp. Dustwrapper, photos, line drawings.
Gatherings of angels: migrating birds and their ecology. Click here to buy
Able, Kenneth P.
$70.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 193 pp., colour photographs, maps, other illustrations.
The book features 24 pages of stunning colour photographs with additional black and white photographs throughout. Two chapters of background information on migration precede chapters that focus on different species or groups of birds and the localitiies essential to their survival - from the spring flights of songbirds across the Gulf of Mexico to the massing of sandhill cranes on the Platte River. The authors discuss the timing of migrant travel, the routes followed, and the concentration of birds in stopover sites, locations that must be preserved if the birds are to have secure resting spots.
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Migration and survival of the birds of Asia. Click here to buy
McClure, H. Elliott.
$50.00
Quarto, 476 pp., text illustrations, slight wear to cover otherwise a good copy. Inscribed by the author.
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Migration and survival of the birds of Asia. Click here to buy
McClure, H. Elliott.
$70.00
Quarto, 476 pp., very good copy, inscribed by the author.
Naturalised birds of the world. Click here to buy
Lever, Sir Christopher.
$110.00
Octavo, dustwrapper, 352 pp., line drawings.
This book looks at the world's naturalised (successfully introduced) species of bird and discusses each species in turn, describing how, why, when and where its introduction took place, how it became established, and the ecological and economic impacts its presence has had in the country or countries it is naturalised in. Each account has a map, showing natural and introduced range, and line drawings of the species concerned.
Population limitation in birds. Click here to buy
Newton, Ian.
$153.00
Large octavo, paperback, 597 pp., illustrated by Keith Brockie. BRAND NEW.
A fresh and informed synthesis of a mass of information from around the world, presented in a clear and coherent manner. (ISBN: 0125173660) (EAN: 9780125173667)
Statistics for ornithologists. Click here to buy
Fowler, Jim and Louis Cohen.
$52.00
Octavo, paperback, 150 pp., tables. BRAND NEW.
BTO Guide 22. This extensively revised second edition is designed to introduce the fundamentals of statistics and is tailored to the needs of ornithologists. In response to feedback received the authors have dropped the section on the binominal theory (not having encountered a single ornithological example for its use) and introduced the Kruskal Wallis and G-tests due to the growing popularity of these techniques.
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Studies in bird migration, being the collected papers of H. Chr. C. Mortensen, 1856-1921. Click here to buy
Jespersen, Poul and A. Vedel Taning, editors.
$65.00
Octavo, 272 pp., photographs. Binder's cloth, front wrapper retained.
The ecology of bird communities. Click here to buy
Wiens, John A.
$85.00
Octavo, paperback, 334 pp., line drawings. BRAND NEW.
Volume two only (volume one is out of print). The two volumes of John Wiens' Ecology of Bird Communities have applications and importance to the whole field of ecology. The books contain a detailed synthesis of our current understanding of the patterns of organisation of bird communities and of the factors that may determine them, drawing from studies from all over the world. By emphasizing how proper logic and methods have or have not been followed and how different viewpoints have developed historically and have led to controversy, the scope of these books are extended far beyond the study of birds. Processes and Variations discusses the way in which bird community patterns have been interpreted. This second volume examines how the complexity and variability of natural environments may influence efforts to discern and understand the nature of these communities. Graduate students and professionals in avian biology and ecology will find these volumes a valuable stimulus and guide to future field studies and theory development.
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The migrations of birds. Click here to buy
Dorst, Jean.
$25.00
Octavo, 476 pp., text illustrations, dustwrapper, reading copy.
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Wild geese of the world: their life history and ecology. Click here to buy
Owen, Myrfyn.
$45.00
Quarto, dustwrapper, 236 pp., colour plates, line drawings.