Bird love : the family life of birds /

Bird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks. It delves into the reasons why some species, such as the wattled jacana, rely on males to do all the childcare, while othe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tong, Wenfei (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020.
Sujets:
Birds > Behavior.
Courtship in animals.
Oiseaux > Mœurs et comportement.
Parade nuptiale.
NATURE / Animals / Birds
Birds > Behavior
Courtship in animals
African jacana.
African weavers.
Australasian wrens.
Cape weaver.
Eastern golden weaver.
Gouldian finches.
Lesser masked weaver.
Long-tailed widowbird.
Madagascan jacana.
albatross.
barn swallows.
bird tours.
birding adventures.
birding vacations.
birds of paradise.
birdwatching.
dunnocks.
fairy-wrens.
incubator birds.
jacanas.
lily trotters.
manakins.
megapodes.
mound-builders.
northern jacana.
parrots.
passerines.
perching birds.
red-backed fairywren.
sparrows.
splendid fairywren.
superb fairywren.
variegated fairywren.
wattled jacana.
widowbirds.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. Ecology & Mating Systems
  • TWO. Courtship
  • THREE. Nests & Eggs
  • FOUR. Raising Chicks
  • FIVE. Sex Role Reversals
  • SIX. Group Breeding
  • SEVEN. Brood Parasitism
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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