Author: Ralph Simon PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Behavior Study of the Common Tern
Author: Ralph Simon PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Behavior Study of the Common Tern, Sterna Hirundo Linnaeus
Author: Ralph Simon PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Terns
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Common Tern
Author: Joanna BurgerPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583481109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
For more than twenty years the authors studied the complex breeding and social behavior of colonies of terns. A significant dynamic of their social behavior is their “mobbing” behavior when they aggressively defend their nests against predators and will attack intruders, including human beings. Analysis of this and other behaviors as they affect breeding and population provide fascinating insights in the study of birds.
Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico: Charadrillformes
Author: Roger B. ClappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Special Scientific Report
Author: Biological Report
Author: A Preliminary Bibliography with KWIC Index on the Ecology of Estuaries and Coastal Areas of the Eastern United States
Author: Robert LivingstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Behavior of Marine Animals
Author: Joanna BurgerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468429884
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The maJonty of the chapters in this volume are structured to include a balance between literature review, original data, and synthesis. The research approaches taken by the authors are generallyof two kinds. One centers on the long-term, in-depth study of a single species in which many aspects of its natural history are examined in detail. The other is a comparative one which involves investigating particular questions by examining species or by comparing groups of species that may include taxonomic andjor ecological affinities. Most of the chapters concern obvious aspects of breeding behavior including habitat selection, the effects of age on breeding, communication, mating systems, synchrony of breeding activities, development of behavior, prefledging parental care, and postfledging parental care. Of these topics, many relate directly to the advantages and disadvantages of coloniality-a conspicuous behavior pattern in marine birds. As such, they provide para.picuou for the further study of coloniality and the social behaviorof many other animals. Other important areas of marine bird breeding behavior (such as courtship behavior, antipredator behavior, information transfer) have not been included because of space limitations. Since man's encroachment on the seashore and continental shelf poses certain threats to marine birds, a volume elucidating various aspects of their biology has multiple uses. As weil as being of value to ornithologists, the volume should be useful to managers involved with coastal planning.
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Habitat, Population Dynamics, and Metal Levels in Colonial Waterbirds
Author: Joanna BurgerPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482251140
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This book is a result of the authors' more than 40 years of study on the behavior, populations, and heavy metals in the colonial waterbirds nesting in Barnegat Bay and the nearby estuaries and bays in the Northeastern United States. From Boston Harbor to the Chesapeake, based on longitudinal studies of colonial waterbirds, it provides a clear pictu