How Birds Live Together (eBook)

Colonies and Communities in the Avian World

Marianne Taylor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23192-1 (ISBN)

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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the ways birds cohabitFeaturing dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in the avian world. From long-established seabird colonies that use the same cliffs for generations to the fast-shifting dynamics of flock formation, leading wildlife writer Marianne Taylor explores the different ways birds choose to dwell together.Through fascinating text, color photos, maps, and other graphics, Taylor examines the advantages of avian sociality and social breeding. Chapters provide detailed information on diverse types of bird colonies, including those species that construct single-family nests close together in trees; those that share large, communal nests housing multiple families; those that nest in tunnels dug into the earth; those that form exposed colonies on open ground and defend them collectively, relying on ferocious aggression; those that live communally on human-made structures in towns and cities; and more. Taylor discusses the challenges, benefits, hazards, and social dynamics of each style of living, and features a wealth of species as examples.Showcasing colonies from the edge of Scotland and the tropical delta of the Everglades to the Namib Desert in Africa, How Birds Live Together gives bird enthusiasts a vivid understanding of avian social communities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Anser (bird) • AUK • avocet • Barn Owl • Baya weaver • Bee-Eater • bird • Bird colony • bird migration • Bird nest • Bird of Prey • bird strike • Birdwatching • Black-headed Gull • Black-winged stilt • Breeding pair • Brood parasite • Burrowing Owl • Carrion crow • Cattle Egret • Common cuckoo • Common starling • Common wood pigeon • communal roosting • cooperative breeding • cowbird • Diving bird • duck • Eastern Bluebird • Edible bird's nest • Edible-nest swiftlet • Egret • Eurasian magpie • Eurasian oystercatcher • Eurasian tree sparrow • Fairy prion • Falcon Nest • Feral Pigeon • fieldfare • flightless bird • Flocking (behavior) • Flyway • foraging • frigatebird • Grassholm • Grey heron • Hawaiian crow • Homing pigeon • House sparrow • insect • Laysan Albatross • Magpie goose • Mammal • Manx shearwater • Marine habitats • mayfly • Mediterranean gull • Monk parakeet • Nest • nest box • Northern Gannet • Oilbird • Oystercatcher • Pair bond • Parakeet • Passenger pigeon • peregrine falcon • Pigeon guillemot • plumage • Pygmy falcon • razorbill • Red-footed falcon • red-winged blackbird • Rock dove • rodent • roseate spoonbill • Rosy-faced lovebird • Rough-legged buzzard • Sandwich tern • seabird • Senegal parrot • Snowy Owl • Sociable weaver • Social Group • Sociality • Sooty tern • Spot-winged falconet • Squacco heron • stoat • tern • Tree Swallow • wader • water bird • waterfowl • Whiskered tern • White stork • White tern • wildlife • Wood stork • zebra finch
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23192-3 / 0691231923
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23192-1 / 9780691231921