Bird migration

by Newton, Ian

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Title Statements

Full title :Bird migration / Ian Newton

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:x, 598 s. : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780007307319, 0007307314, 9780007307326, 0007307322
oclc:ocn759923792
Dewey Decimal:598.1568

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 seminal new 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…