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Birdpedia : a brief compendium of avian lore /
"This book is an engaging and interesting compendium of bird facts. Presented in a format similar to that of Lawrence Millman's Fungipedia, the book contains alphabetized entries on all things birds- from basic biology, through taxonomy, to folklore and potted biographies of key figures in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Abundance (How many birds?)
- Bailey, Florence Merriam (1863- 1948)
- Caching
- Display
- Ectoparasite
- Fallout
- Gause's Rule (a.k.a. the principle of competitive exclusion)
- Halcyon
- Identification
- Jizz (Not what you're thinking)
- Kettle
- LBB/LBJ (also LGB, etc.)
- Maturity
- Navigation
- Odor
- Painting
- Radar
- Seawatching
- Tameness
- Vision (A bird's eye view)
- Wader
- Zugunruhe
- Acknowledgments