Understanding Bird Behavior : : An Illustrated Guide to What Birds Do and Why /

Understanding Bird Behavior : : An Illustrated Guide to What Birds Do and Why / / Wenfei Tong.

A vivid, in-depth look at why birds behave as they doBirds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviors—from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Factoring in sound and flock interactions, as well as seasons and habitat, Unde...

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VerfasserIn:
Tong, Wenfei,
MitwirkendeR:
Sheldon, Ben C.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 150 color illus. and photos
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t FOREWORD --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t 1. FINDING FOOD --   |t 2. A SOCIAL BIRD --   |t 3. COURTSHIP --   |t 4. FAMILY LIFE --   |t 5. DEALING WITH DANGER --   |t 6. COPING WITH CLIMATE --   |t SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t INDEX --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
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520 |a A vivid, in-depth look at why birds behave as they doBirds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviors—from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Factoring in sound and flock interactions, as well as seasons and habitat, Understanding Bird Behavior decodes the remarkable actions of birds, using examples from species around the world.Richly illustrated, this book opens by showing us how birds find food, relying on foraging techniques, tools, and thievery. We learn about the courtship rituals through which birds choose, compete for, woo, and win mates; the familial conflicts that crop up among parents, offspring, and siblings; and the stresses and strains of nesting, including territory defense, nepotism, and relationship sabotage. We discover how birds respond to threats and danger—through such unique practices as murmurations, specific alarm calls, distraction displays, and antipredator nest design. We also read about how birds adapt certain habits—preening, migration, breeding, and huddling—based on climate and climate change.Investigating avian tactics both familiar and unusual, Understanding Bird Behavior offers a fascinating, close-up look at the many ways birds conduct themselves in the wild. A comprehensive overview of bird behavior150 detailed color illustrations and photographsAn in-depth look at food gathering, courtship and mating, family organization, danger avoidance tactics, and climate-driven behaviorA list for further reading is provided 
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588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) 
650 0 |a Birds  |x Behavior. 
650 7 |a NATURE / Animals / Birds.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a Californian junco. 
653 |a Chatham Island robins. 
653 |a Egyptian vultures. 
653 |a New Caledonian crows. 
653 |a alternative mating strategies. 
653 |a anis. 
653 |a ant birds. 
653 |a bishops. 
653 |a black coucals. 
653 |a blackcap migration. 
653 |a bowerbird. 
653 |a brood divisions. 
653 |a buffalo weaver. 
653 |a burrow nests. 
653 |a caching. 
653 |a camouflaged eggs. 
653 |a carrion crows. 
653 |a chick mimicry. 
653 |a circadian rhythms. 
653 |a circannual rhythms. 
653 |a colored leg bands. 
653 |a communal larders. 
653 |a coot chicks. 
653 |a crested auklet. 
653 |a crossbills. 
653 |a crows. 
653 |a cuckoos. 
653 |a deception. 
653 |a delayed dispersal. 
653 |a eavesdropping. 
653 |a economics of feeding. 
653 |a egg and chick recognition. 
653 |a extra-pair copulations. 
653 |a fairywrens. 
653 |a female blue tits. 
653 |a flamingo. 
653 |a forced copulation. 
653 |a fork-tailed drongos. 
653 |a great tits. 
653 |a habitat specialization. 
653 |a heritable egg placement. 
653 |a hoatzins. 
653 |a house husbands. 
653 |a hummingbird battles. 
653 |a inbreeding avoidance. 
653 |a infanticide. 
653 |a kakapo. 
653 |a leks. 
653 |a long tails. 
653 |a long-tailed tits. 
653 |a male-male competition. 
653 |a mating systems. 
653 |a mental time travel. 
653 |a mixed flocks. 
653 |a mobbing. 
653 |a mutual mate choice. 
653 |a new world warblers. 
653 |a oxpeckers. 
653 |a parasitism. 
653 |a parrot communication. 
653 |a passerines. 
653 |a passwords. 
653 |a polygynous male pied flycatchers. 
653 |a quails. 
653 |a raptors. 
653 |a red collars. 
653 |a red-backed fairywren. 
653 |a red-winged blackbird. 
653 |a risk-taking behavior. 
653 |a sandgrouse feathers. 
653 |a selfish begging. 
653 |a sentinel behavior. 
653 |a sex differences in migration. 
653 |a siblicide. 
653 |a spatial memory. 
653 |a speciation. 
653 |a temperate birds. 
653 |a thermoregulation. 
653 |a tropical birds. 
653 |a turkey courting coalitions. 
653 |a widowbirds. 
653 |a willow ptarmigan. 
653 |a winter flocks. 
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