Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Captive birds and conservation
- 2 Research collections in ornithology – a reaffirmation
- 3 On the study of avian mating systems
- 4 Cooperative breeding strategies among birds
- 5 Ecological energetics: what are the questions?
- 6 Perspectives in optimal foraging
- 7 Biochemical studies of microevolutionary processes
- 8 Organization of the avian genome
- 9 The origin and early radiation of birds
- 10 Avian community ecology: an iconoclastic view
- 11 Biogeography: the unification and maturation of a science
- 12 Bird song learning: theme and variations
- 13 Bird navigation
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Captive birds and conservation
- 2 Research collections in ornithology – a reaffirmation
- 3 On the study of avian mating systems
- 4 Cooperative breeding strategies among birds
- 5 Ecological energetics: what are the questions?
- 6 Perspectives in optimal foraging
- 7 Biochemical studies of microevolutionary processes
- 8 Organization of the avian genome
- 9 The origin and early radiation of birds
- 10 Avian community ecology: an iconoclastic view
- 11 Biogeography: the unification and maturation of a science
- 12 Bird song learning: theme and variations
- 13 Bird navigation
- Index
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- Perspectives in OrnithologyEssays Presented for the Centennial of the American Ornitholgists' Union, pp. 549 - 560Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983