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Title:
Gatherings of angels : migrating birds and their ecology
Author:
Able, Kenneth P.
Publication Information:
Ithaca, NY : Comstock Books, 1999.
Physical Description:
xi, 193 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Scope and evolution of bird migration / How birds migrate : flight behavior, energetics, and navigation / Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico : the view from aloft / Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico : the cheniers of Louisiana and stopover ecology / Returning to the tropics : the epic autumn flight of the blackpoll warbler / Racing with the sun : the forced migration of the broad-winged hawk / Sandhill cranes and the Platte River / Hemispheric globetrotting of the white-rumped sandpiper / Converging north : dunlins and western sandpipers on the Copper River Delta / Hummingbirds in Rocky Mountain meadows / Conservation of birds on migration
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ISBN:
9780801433627

9780801484018
Format :
Book