RSPB birds : their hidden world
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RSPB birds : their hidden world
Bloomsbury Pub., 2012
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Even if you are an enthusiastic bird watcher, the details of how birds fly, why they behave as they do, how they breed and their extraordinary travels can seem very mysterious.
This lively new book aims to give readers a broad understanding of 'how birds work' from their physical make-up to courtship and breeding, social activity and their spread and travels. Readers will be able to interpret the kind of bird activity and behaviour that they see and hear in their gardens as well as in the wider countryside and on nature reserves.
Designed for the general interest reader and written in a lively and accessible style, the book is presented as a series of beautifully illustrated page spreads, enhanced by fully captioned photographs and with case studies of individual species of British and European birds.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The egg
Chapter 2 The nest
Chapter 3 Territory
Chapter 4 Breeding behaviour
Chapter 5 Communal living
Chapter 6 Flocking
Chapter 7 Hands on
Chapter 8 Choosing and keeping a mate
Chapter 9 Song calls
Chapter 10 The juvenile years
Chapter 11 Survival and longevity
Chapter 12 Population
Chapter 13 Migration and movements
Chapter 14 Feeding
Chapter 15 Roosting
Chapter 16 Birds and weather
Chapter 17 Plumage and moult
Chapter 18 Flight
Chapter 19 Feathers
Chapter 20 Vision
Chapter 21 Names of birds
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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