Bowerbirds
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2008
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-643-09420-8 (ISBN)
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-643-09420-8 (ISBN)
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Focuses on Australia's members of the Bowerbirds family, with accounts on each of the 10 species. This book discusses the New Guinea representatives and covers areas such as breeding, identification and distribution. It features over 80 illustrations, including colour pictures of the Australian species, their bowers and distributional maps.
The bowerbirds are famed for their unique bower-building behaviour which, in some species, can be a complex construction of sticks and other vegetable matter that can grow to two metres or so in diameter and about one and a half metres high. Many species are also accomplished mimics, and are able to copy the calls of other bird species, other natural and mechanical sounds and even human speech. These fascinating birds are confined to Australia and New Guinea and, due to the difficulty in accessing certain areas of their distribution, the study of their habits has been challenging. This book aims to condense the published knowledge acquired by ornithologists that have studied the bowerbirds since their discovery, and deliver it in a format suitable for natural history enthusiasts at any level.
The bowerbirds are famed for their unique bower-building behaviour which, in some species, can be a complex construction of sticks and other vegetable matter that can grow to two metres or so in diameter and about one and a half metres high. Many species are also accomplished mimics, and are able to copy the calls of other bird species, other natural and mechanical sounds and even human speech. These fascinating birds are confined to Australia and New Guinea and, due to the difficulty in accessing certain areas of their distribution, the study of their habits has been challenging. This book aims to condense the published knowledge acquired by ornithologists that have studied the bowerbirds since their discovery, and deliver it in a format suitable for natural history enthusiasts at any level.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Classification and Morphology; Habitat, Distribution and Conservation; Bower Evolution and Sexual Behaviour; Species Accounts; Black-eared Catbird; Green Catbird; Tooth-billed Bowerbird; Golden Bowerbird; Regent Bowerbird; Satin Bowerbird; Fawn-breasted Bowerbird; Spotted Bowerbird; Western Bowerbird; Great Bowerbird; New Guinea Species Supplement; White-eared Catbird; Macgregor's Bowerbird; Streaked Bowerbird; Vogelkop Bowerbird; Yellow-fronted Bowerbird; Archbold's Bowerbird; Masked Bowerbird; Flame Bowerbird; Adelbert Bowerbird; Lauterbach's Bowerbird; Index; Bibliography.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Australian Natural History |
| Verlagsort | Melbourne |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 354 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-643-09420-2 / 0643094202 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-643-09420-8 / 9780643094208 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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