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Birds are a diverse group of vertebrates, with over 10,000 extant species. Diversification into volant, aquatic and terrestrial environmental niches has precipitated a remarkable morphological diversity between species. Birds have a unique respiratory system consisting of a rigi…

The entire diversity of life on earth exists in air or water. Whether an organism lives in air or water provides the most fundamental description of its physical world and establishes an organism’s ecological niche on the most essential level. Because these two fluids are vastly…

Globally many bird populations are declining at a rapid pace due to direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbances. Bird collisions with buildings are one major source of direct mortality. Chapter 1 examined species- and life-history-related variation and correlates of collision…