Nature : Birds & Birdwatching

An engaging account of the author's own travels through Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Europe, South America and Asia, in search of bird specimens for the British Museum and live birds for the London Zoo. more...

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Describes the remarkable world of birds and their multitude of behaviours. more...

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Ancient Birds from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies. The ancient Greek bird names are transliterated into English script, and all that the ancients said about birds is presented in English. This book is accordingly the first complete discussion of ancient bird names that will be accessible to readers without ancient Greek. The only large-scale examination of ancient birds for seventy years, the book has an exhaustive bibliography (partly classical scholarship and partly ornithological) to encourage further study, and provides students and ornithologists with the definitive study of ancient birds. more...

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Origins and Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1. Northern Melanesia's Physical and Biological Environment. 1. Geology and geological history. 2. Climate. 3. Habitats and vegetation. 4. Terrestrial vertebrates other than birds. Part 2. Human History and Impacts. 5. Human history. 6. Ornithological exploration of Northern Melanesia. 7. Exterminations of bird populations. Part 3. The Northern Melanesia Avifauna. 8. Family composition. 9. Determinants of island species number. 10. Level of endemism, habitat preference, and abundance of each species. 11. Overwater dispersal ability of each species. 12. Distributional ecology. Part 4. Colonization Routes. 13. Proximate origins of Northern Melanesian populations. 14. Upstream colonization and faunal dominance. 15. Ultimate origins of Northern Melanesian populations. Part 5. Taxonomic Analysis: Differences among Species. 16. The problem of speciation. 17. Stages of geographic speciation among the birds of Northern Melanesia. 18. Absence of geographic variation. 19. Geographic variation: subspecies. 20. Geographic variation: megasubspecies. 21. Geographic variation: allospecies. 22. Complete speciation. 23. Hybridization. 24. Endemic species and genera. Part 6. Geographical Analysis: Differences among Islands. 25. Endemism index. 26. Pair-wise differentiation index. 27. Pair-wise non-sharing indices: differences in island species compositions. 28. The establishment of geographic isolates. 29. Inter-archipelagal barriers. 30. Barriers within the Bismarcks. 31. Barriers within the Solomons. 32. Speciation on fragmented Solomon islands. 33. Differential extinction and species occurrences on fragmented Pleistocene islands. Part 7. Synthesis, Conclusions, and Prospects. 34. Conclusions about speciation. 35. Species differences: taxon cycles, and the evolution of dispersal. 36. Promising directions for future research. Maps. Appendices. References. Index more...

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