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576 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents: The conservation status of neotropical migrants : present and future / John W. Terborgh -- Some considerations on migratory birds / Paul Schwartz -- The Pampas shorebird community : interactions between breeding and nonbreeding members / J.P. Myers -- Hawk and vulture migrations in the neotropics / Neal G. Smith -- Wintering of North American tyrant flycatchers in the neotropics. Species treated. Winter distribution patterns. Central American Empidonax flycatcher habitats. Migrant flycatchers in Amazonian Peru. Discussions and conclusions / John W. Fitzpatrick -- Patterns of ecological interactions among migrant and resident vireos on the wintering grounds / Jon C. Barlow -- Spatial relationships between migratory parulid warblers and their ecological counterparts in the neotropics / Allen Keast -- Interactions of migrant and resident land birds in Florida and Bahama pinelands / John T. Emlen -- Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of North American migrants in the eastern Caribbean region / John W. Terborgh and John R. Faaborg -- Patterns of Migration in the West Indies / John R. Faaborg and John W. Terborgh -- Distribution of migrant birds in the Yucatán Peninsula : a survey / Robert B. Waide, John T. Emlen and Elliot J. Tramer -- Analysis of North American subspecies of migrant birds wintering in Los Tuxtlas, southern Veracruz, Mexico / Mario A. Ramos and Dwain W. Warner -- Winter habitat distribution of migratory land birds in western Mexico with special reference to small, foliage-gleaning insectivores / Richard L. Hutto -- Ecological roles of migratory and resident birds on Barro Colorado Island, Panama / Edwin O. Willis. |
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Contents: Bird community structure in two Panama forests : residents, migrants, and seasonality during the nonbreeding season / Henry A. Hespenheide -- Resident and North American migrant bird interactions in the Santa Marta highlands, northern Colombia / Terry B. Johnson -- Distribution and abundance of North American migrants in lowlands of northern Colombia / Stephen M. Russell -- Differential use by North American migrants of three types of Colombian forests / Jorge E. Orejuela, Ralph J. Raitt and Humberto Alvarez -- Relative abundance of north temperate zone breeding migrants in western Colombia and their impact at fruiting trees / Steven L. Hilty -- Bird migration in Amazonian Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia / David L. Pearson -- Foraging ecology of migrant and resident warblers and vireos in the highlands of Costa Rica / Elliot J. Tramer and Thomas R. Kemp -- The black-throated green warbler in Panama : geographic and seasonal comparison of foraging / Kerry N. Rabenold -- Nonbreeding ecology of the Blackburnian warbler / Robert M. Chipley -- Interspecific competition and the niche of the American redstart (Selophaga ruticilla) in wintering and breeding communities / Sara E. Bennett -- Resource partitioning between migrant and resident birds : the use of irregular resources / Robert B. Waide -- Ecological aspects of migrant bird behavior in Veracruz, Mexico / John H. Rappole and Dwain W. Warner -- Migrant hummingbird's accommodation into tropical communities / Jean-Luc DesGranges and Peter R. Grant -- Asynchronous migration patterns and the coexistence of tropical hummingbirds / Peter Feinsinger -- Evolutionary implications of habitat relations between permanent and winter resident landbirds in Costa Rica / F. Gary Stiles. |
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Contents: Adaptations to seasonal changes by migrant landbirds in the Panama Canal Zone / Eugene S. Morton -- Migratory Parulidae : what can species co-occurrence in the north reveal about ecological plasticity and wintering patterns? / Allen Keast -- Migrant participation in neotropical mixed species flocks / George V.N. Powell -- Influence of meteorological patterns and trans-Gulf migration on the calendars of latitudinal migrants / William H. Buskirk -- Demographic aspects of long-distance migration / Russell Greenberg -- Population limitation : breeding or wintering grounds? / Douglass H. Morse -- Evolution of migration in relation to factors regulating bird numbers / Stephen Fretwell -- Patterns in the migration systems between the north temperate zone and the tropics / James R. Karr -- Heterogeneity of potential food abundance for tropical small land birds / Daniel H. Janzen -- The importance of migrant birds to the advancement of evolutionary theory / Eugene S. Morton -- Synthesis : the ecological basis and evolution of the Nearctic-neotropical bird migration system / Allen Keast. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Migrant birds in the neotropics. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980 (OCoLC)1390668762 |