This readable guide to the seabirds of the world provides updated material on every aspect of this fascinating group of birds. Ornithologist Anthony J. Gaston has devoted decades to the study of these beautiful and engaging birds, and he explains in detail what is special about being a seabird and why—like us—they live a long time and reproduce very slowly. Enriched with personal anecdotes from the field and remarkable photographs from John Chardine and Tim Lash, this book will appeal to students, birdwatchers, ornithologists, and naturalists alike.
The book covers the gamut of seabirds. It includes information on seabird types, adaptation and plumage, how they are distributed into communities, feeding behavior, migration, breeding, and the consequences of coloniality. The author concludes with a thoughtful analysis and discussion of the population dynamics and life-history strategy of seabirds.
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“This readable guide to the seabirds of the world provides updated material on every aspect of these birds—adaptation and plumage, how they are distributed into communities, feeding behavior, migration, breeding, and more.”
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Anthony J. Gaston has worked for the Canadian Wildlife Service on the ecology of seabirds for nearly thirty years. Most of his research has been in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, which he has visited annually since 1975 to study Thick-billed Murres and other seabirds. He specializes in researching birds that other ornithologists cannot reach.
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Wonderful overview of seabird biology,
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I really enjoyed reading this book and I'm currently perusing it a second time. The author is a biologist who writes very well for a general audience. One of the strengths of the book is that it presents a decidedly "big picture" view of seabirds - comparing seabird natural histories around the globe, through time, and with other groups of animals. It asks and attempts to answer many "why" questions about seabird life history strategies in an entertaining and thoughtful way. I highly recommend this book to birders and naturalists who are interested in these fascinating and sometimes mysterious birds. I caution, however, that this book is not about the field identification of seabirds and does not treat particular families of seabirds in a specific way - but there are more and more field guides and books that cover that area separately.
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wandering albatross, great auk, little auks, king penguins, glaucous gulls, crested auklets, precocial murrelets, precocial behaviour, seabird life histories, seabird families, fulmarine petrels, ornamented bills, seabird biology, deferred breeding, inshore feeders, gadfly petrels, larger seabirds, most seabirds, oceanic seabirds, open nesters, seabird distributions, large petrels, incubation shifts, flightless seabirds, colonial breeders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thick-billed Murres, New Zealand, Coats Island, John Chardine, North America, Northern Fulmar, Prince Leopold Island, North Atlantic, Common Murres, Tony Gaston, Great Lakes, British Columbia, North Pacific, Sooty Terns, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Tim Lash, Humboldt Current, Hudson Bay, Hecate Strait, Christmas Island, Blue Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Reef Island, Parasitic Jaegers, Black Guillemots New!
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wandering albatross, great auk, little auks, king penguins, glaucous gulls, crested auklets, precocial murrelets, precocial behaviour, seabird life histories, seabird families, fulmarine petrels, ornamented bills, seabird biology, deferred breeding, inshore feeders, gadfly petrels, larger seabirds, most seabirds, oceanic seabirds, open nesters, seabird distributions, large petrels, incubation shifts, flightless seabirds, colonial breeders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thick-billed Murres, New Zealand, Coats Island, John Chardine, North America, Northern Fulmar, Prince Leopold Island, North Atlantic, Common Murres, Tony Gaston, Great Lakes, British Columbia, North Pacific, Sooty Terns, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Tim Lash, Humboldt Current, Hudson Bay, Hecate Strait, Christmas Island, Blue Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Reef Island, Parasitic Jaegers, Black Guillemots New!
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- Seabirds: Feeding Ecology and Role in Marine Ecosystems by J. P. Croxall on 5 pages
- Avian Biology, Volume 9 by Donald S. Farner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Atlantic Alcidae by Author Unknown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers by Josep Del Hoyo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher on page 164, and Back Matter
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