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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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