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Birds in Trouble /
As oil was washing up on the shores of Louisiana, covering shorebirds and their nests and eggs after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Lynn Barber decided to write this book to heighten awareness, not only of the plight of bird species that are declining in numbers every year, but also of the ways in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2016.
[Place of publication not identified] : 2016 |
| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The importance of bird habitat
- What can be done to help birds
- Species accounts of birds in trouble
- Trumpeter swan
- Gunnison sage-grouse and Greater sage-grouse
- Greater prairie-chicken and Lesser prairie-chicken
- Yellow-billed loon
- Clark's grebe
- Black-capped petrel and Bermuda petrel
- Ashy storm-petrel
- Reddish egret
- Ferruginous hawk
- Yellow rail and black rail
- Whooping crane
- Snowy plover and Piping plover
- Mountain plover
- Wandering tattler
- Bristle-thighed curlew
- Long-billed curlew
- Hudsonian godwit
- Red knot
- Buff-breasted sandpiper
- Kittlitz's murrelet, Xantus's murrelet (now Scripps's murrelet and Guadalupe murrelet) and Craveri's murrelet
- Ivory gull
- Flammulated owl
- Spotted owl
- Red-cockaded woodpecker
- Red-crowned parrot
- Black-capped vireo
- Florida scrub-jay and Island scrub-jay
- California gnatcatcher
- Bicknell's thrush
- McKay's bunting
- Colima warbler
- Kirtland's warbler
- Cerulean warbler
- Golden-cheeked warbler
- Brown-capped rosy-finch and Black rosy-finch
- Helping everyday birds
- Appendix 1. Species population estimates
- Appendix 2. Status of birds in trouble
- Appendix 3. Status of birds under the Endangered Species Act.