Birds of Tropical America : : A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity / / Steven Hilty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Hilty, Steven,
• TeilnehmendeR: Wolf, Mimi Hoppe.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Mildred Wyatt-Wold Series in Ornithology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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? --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292749344; 9783110745344
• DOI: 10.7560/706736
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Steven Hilty.

Birds of Tropical America was published by Chapters Publishing in 1994 and went out of print in 1997. UT Press is pleased to reissue it with a new epilogue and updated references.