The narrow edge : a tiny bird, an ancient crab, and an epic journey /

"Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cramer, Deborah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Red knot > Migration > Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Shore birds > Migration > Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Migratory birds > Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Limulus polyphemus > Ecology.
Calidris > Ecology.
Human ecology.
Seashore ecology > Atlantic Coast (America)
Climatic changes.
Red knot > Migration.
Climate Change
Bécasseau maubèche > Migration > Delaware, Baie de la (Del. et N.J.)
Oiseaux de rivage > Migration > Delaware, Baie de la (Del. et N.J.)
Oiseaux migrateurs > Delaware, Baie de la (Del. et N.J.)
Limulus polyphemus > Écologie.
Calidris > Écologie.
Écologie humaine.
Climat > Changements.
human ecology.
climate change.
NATURE > Animals > Birds.
NATURE > Birdwatching Guides.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ornithology.
Seashore ecology
Human ecology
Climatic changes
Migratory birds
Red knot > Migration
Shore birds > Migration
Knutt
Pfeilschwanzkrebse
Vogelzug
America > Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Ocean > Delaware Bay
Delaware Bay
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginnings
  • The "uttermost part of the earth" : Tierra del Fuego
  • When is the beginning of the end?
  • The urban bird and the resort : Río Gallegos and Las Grutas
  • Bay of plenty : Delaware Bay
  • Tenacity
  • Blue bloods
  • Counting
  • Lowcountry : South Carolina and other tidelands
  • Ghost trail : the Laguna Madre and the central flyway
  • Does losing one more bird matter?
  • The longest day : the Arctic
  • Returning south : James Bay, the Mingan Islands, and the Guianas
  • Heading home.

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