Bird migration

by Newton, Ian

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Title Statements

Full title :Bird migration / Ian Newton.

Summary

The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. Migration is shown by many kinds of animals, including butterflies and other insects, mammals, marine turtles and fish, but in none is it as extensively developed as in birds. The collective travel routes of birds span almost the entire globe, with some extreme return journeys covering more than 30,000 km. As a result of migration, bird distributions are continually changing ' in regular seasonal patterns, and on local, regional or global scales. Migration has repeatedly prompted familiar questions, such as where birds go or come from, why do they do it, how do they know when and where to travel, and how do they find their way' In this book, Ian Newton sets out to answer these ' and other ' questions. The book is divided into four main sections: the first is introductory, describing the different types of bird movements, methods of study, and the main migration patterns seen around the British Isles; the second part is concerned mainly with the process of migration ' with timing, energy needs, weather effects and navigation; the third with evolution and change in migratory behaviour; and the fourth with the geographical and ecological aspects of bird movements.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Collins
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

Notes

Series numbering extrapolated from list of titles in series: p. [597]-598.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 598 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780007379729, 0007379722
oclc:ocn875276823
LC Classification:QL698.9
Dewey Decimal:598.1568

Migration studies -- Migration around the British Isles -- Migratory flight -- Migration and weather -- Fuelling the flights -- Migration speeds -- Amazing journeys -- Annual schedules -- Migration timing -- Comings and goings -- Navigation -- Site-fidelity and dispersal -- Vagrancy -- Evolution of migration -- Recent changes in migratory behaviour -- Glacial legacies -- Geographical patterns -- Irruptions -- Other movements -- Sex and age differences in migration -- Migrants in Africa -- Population limitation -- Declining migrants -- Postscript : British pioneers in migration studies.