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Title Statement: |
Bird migration / Ian Newton. |
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Description: |
x, 598 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm. |
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General Note: |
Series numbering extrapolated from list of titles in series: p. [597]-598. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-580) and indexes. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Migration studies -- Migration around the British Isles -- Migratory flight -- Migration and weather -- Fuelling the flights -- Migration speeds -- Amazing journeys -- Annual schedules -- Migration timing -- Comings and goings -- Navigation -- Site-fidelity and dispersal -- Vagrancy -- Evolution of migration -- Recent changes in migratory behaviour -- Glacial legacies -- Geographical patterns -- Irruptions -- Other movements -- Sex and age differences in migration -- Migrants in Africa -- Population limitation -- Declining migrants -- Postscript : British pioneers in migration studies. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. |