Using specially devised computer-generated maps, plus full-color photos and illustrations that together represent birds in nature and in close-up detail, the atlas first explains the basics of bird migration and then traces the journeys of more than a hundred species, including detailed information and an illustration of each.
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From Library Journal
A visual feast, this book offers fine browsing compared with Paul Kerlinger's How Birds Migrate (LJ 8/95), the choice of those who want a good read. Elphick's text is well done, but the strength of this compilation is the profusion of paintings, photos, maps, tables, charts, and sidebars with lengthy but vital captions. Coming from such varied locales as England, Mississippi, Australia, and South Africa, the contributors help create an atlas that is worldwide in scope: coverage includes "Birds on the Move" (a general discourse on migration); big sections on migrants of North America, Eurasia, the far north, the sea, and the Southern Hemisphere; "Almost Migrations"; and a "Catalog of Migrants," an annotated list of an additional 500 migrant species with distances traveled. Good as these new books are, they supplement and partially update rather than replace classics such as Jean Dorst's The Migration of Birds (1962) and G.V.T. Matthews's Bird Navigation (1968. 2d ed.), but it is a pleasure to recommend The Atlas of Bird Migration for academic and larger public libraries.?Henry T. Armistead, formerly with Thomas Jefferson Univ. Lib., Philadelphia
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
A bird-watcher's treasure, this atlas of ornithological itinerancy combines visual immediacy with factual background. About 100 representative species are depicted and every layout consists of a two-page spread devoted to one of them; an illustration of the bird is backed by a map showing its nesting and resting sites and its annual cross-continental flyways. These routes have become broadly known since the introduction of leg bands and radio transmitters, and they are amazing in their length: an albatross can circumnavigate the globe; arctic terns annually fly from pole to pole. Weather and geography guide these audacious, hazardous trips, both summarized in schematic layouts that begin this atlas. Once on the wing, how do birds navigate? Another layout comes to the rescue, illustrating the guiding lights of the sun, moon, stars, and possibly earth's magnetic field. Geography is the unchanging constraint on migration routes, as most birds dislike flying over water, and so the editors furnish numerous inset maps of chokepoints that are bird-watching heaven. Attractive and informative, this atlas will appeal to a broad library constituency, from the student report-writer to the adult binocular-wearer. Gilbert Taylor
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