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Arctic Shorebirds in North America: A Decade of Monitoring
Jonathan Bart
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Description for Arctic Shorebirds in North America: A Decade of Monitoring
Hardback. "A Publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society." Editor(s): Bart, Jonathan Robert; Johnston, Victoria Helen. Series: Studies in Avian Biology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 66 line illustrations, 92 tables. BIC Classification: PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 177 x 22. Weight in Grams: 940.
Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most productive and pristine coasts anywhere. With so much available food they are able to reproduce almost explosively; and as winter approaches, they retreat south along with their offspring, to return to the Arctic the following spring. This remarkable pattern of movement and activity has been the object of intensive study by an international team of ornithologists who have spent a decade counting, surveying, and observing these shorebirds. In ... Read more
Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most productive and pristine coasts anywhere. With so much available food they are able to reproduce almost explosively; and as winter approaches, they retreat south along with their offspring, to return to the Arctic the following spring. This remarkable pattern of movement and activity has been the object of intensive study by an international team of ornithologists who have spent a decade counting, surveying, and observing these shorebirds. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Series
Studies in Avian Biology
Condition
New
Weight
940g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273108
SKU
V9780520273108
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About Jonathan Bart
Jonathan R. Bart is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center of the USGS in Boise, ID. Victoria Johnston is a former biologist, now Policy Analyst, for Environment Canada and is based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Reviews for Arctic Shorebirds in North America: A Decade of Monitoring
This volume represents a major milestone for the monitoring of wader populations... It will serve as a point of reference.
Graham Austin Brit Trust Ornithology (Bto) A massive coordinated effort to gain a robust understanding of population dynamics and trends of arctic nesting shorebirds... Highly recommended.
J. C. Kricher, Wheaton College (MA) Choice This ... Read more
Graham Austin Brit Trust Ornithology (Bto) A massive coordinated effort to gain a robust understanding of population dynamics and trends of arctic nesting shorebirds... Highly recommended.
J. C. Kricher, Wheaton College (MA) Choice This ... Read more