Birds in Winter : Surviving the Most Challenging Season / Roger F. Pasquier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasquier, Roger F., Author.

Contributor:

La Farge, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ornithology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How birds have evolved and adapted to survive winterBirds in Winter is the first book devoted to the ecology and behavior of birds during this most challenging season. Birds remaining in regions with cold weather must cope with much shorter days to find food and shelter even as they need to avoid predators and stay warm through the long nights, while migrants to the tropics must fit into very different ecosystems and communities of resident birds. Roger Pasquier explores how winter affects birds' lives all through the year, starting in late summer, when some begin caching food to retrieve months later and others form social groups lasting into the next spring. During winter some birds are already pairing up for the following breeding season, when health through the winter contributes to nesting success.Today, rapidly advancing technologies are enabling scientists to track individual birds through their daily and annual movements at home and across oceans and hemispheres, revealing new and unexpected information about their lives and interactions. But, as Birds in Winter shows, much is visible to any interested observer. Pasquier describes the season's distinct conservation challenges for birds that winter where they have bred and for migrants to distant regions. Finally, global warming is altering the nature of winter itself. Whether birds that over millennia have evolved to survive this season can now adjust to a rapidly changing climate is a problem all people who enjoy watching them must consider.Filled with elegant line drawings by artist and illustrator Margaret La Farge, Birds in Winter describes how winter influences the lives of birds from the poles to the equator.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1: Responding to Winter

Chapter 2: Preparing for Winter

Chapter 3: Winter Ranges and Habitat Selection in Migratory Birds

Chapter 4: Spatial and Social Organization

Chapter 5: Survival

Chapter 6: The Winter Day

Chapter 7: Anticipating Spring

Chapter 8: Departure

Chapter 9: Conservation

Chapter 10: Climate Change

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691195438

0691195439

OCLC:

1104346047