Urban Ornithology (eBook)

150 Years of Birds in New York City

P. A. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, John Kieran (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
536 Seiten
Comstock Publishing Associates (Verlag)
978-1-5017-1963-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Urban Ornithology is the first quantitative historical analysis of any New York City natural area's birdlife and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan's Central and Brooklyn's Prospect Parks have preliminary species lists, not revised since 1967, and the last book examining the birdlife of the entire New York City area is now more than fifty years old.

This book updates the avifaunas of those two parks, the Bronx, and other New York City boroughs. It treats the 301 bird species known to have occurred within its study area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx—plus 70 potential additions. Its 123 breeding species are tracked from 1872 and supplemented by quantitative breeding bird censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are discussed in light of an expanding New York City inexorably extinguishing unique habitats.

Autor

P. A. Buckley, a Riverdale native, is Senior Scientist Emeritus at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Walter Sedwitz was a Bronx resident whose favorite fieldwork site was Jerome Reservoir. William J. Norse studied birds throughout the Bronx and compiled its Christmas Bird Counts. John Kieran was Bronx-born and a sports writer for the New York Times. Fervent students of New York City–area birdlife, the four have been writing extensively about it since the 1930s.

Inhalt

Systematic List
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Avifaunal Overview
Terminology
Subarea Coverage
Historical and Recent Data Sources
Van Cortlandt Contrasted with Central and Prospect Parks
Ecological Connectivity
Breeding Species
Winter Species
Migration
Resource Concerns
The Future
Introduction to the Species Accounts
Species Accounts
Appendixes
1. Tables
2. Scientific Names of All Organisms Mentioned in This Book Other Than Birds in the Species Accounts
3. Glossary of Symbols, Abbreviations, and Terms Used in This Book
4. Names of All Observers Appearing Anywhere in the Body of This Book
5. Stranger in a Strange Land: An Andean Gull in the Bronx
6. Specimens in Museum Collections from Van Cortlandt Park, Kingsbridge Meadows, Woodlawn Cemetery and Jerome Reservoir, and Riverdale
Literature Cited
About the Authors
Indexes
English Bird Names
Scientific Bird Names
Subjects

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 6 b&w halftones, 13 maps, 1 frontispiec, 44 graphs
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: NYC historical ornithology, Van Cortlandt, Central, Prospect Park birds, Bronx and NYC bird statuses, NYC forest & wetlands, Van Cortlandt Swamp, breeding bird censuses, extirpation and colonization, advancing migration dates, neotropical migrant declines, blowback drift-migrants, urban habitat loss, urban park management
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-1963-7 / 1501719637
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1963-9 / 9781501719639