Their fate is our fate : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world

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Title:

Their fate is our fate : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world

Author:

Doherty, P. C. (Peter C.)

Personal Author:

Doherty, P. C. (Peter C.)

Publication Information:

New York : The Experiment, c2013.

Physical Description:

247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

General Note:

"An earlier version of this book was originally published by Melbourne University Publishing Limited, Australia, in 2012"--Title page verso.

Language:

English

Contents:

Searching for puffins : an introduction -- Distant relatives -- Chick embryos and other developing life forms -- Sentinel chickens -- Falling crows -- Ticks, sheep, grouse and the glorious twelfth -- Flu flies -- Bird flu : from Hong Kong to Qinghai Lake and beyond -- Bird flu guys -- Bug detectives -- Hawaiian wipeout -- The great parrot panic of 1929-30 -- Catching cancer -- Blue bloods and chicken bugs -- Killing the vultures -- Heavy metal -- Red knots and crab eggs -- Hot birds -- For the birds, and for us -- Latin binomials for common bird names.

Subject Term:

Birds -- Behavior.

Birds -- Diseases.

Birds -- Ecology.

Public health -- Forecasting.

Epidemiology -- Forecasting.

Quality of life -- Forecasting.

Environmental quality -- Forecasting.

Indicators (Biology)

Environmental indicators.

ISBN:

9781615190911