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The Storm-petrels

Autor Rob Thomas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iul 2024
The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species.Imagine a bird as small as a sparrow, which lives most of its life on the open ocean yet can survive for decades. It walks on water, and migrates half way around the world, returning to remote islands to breed underground, often in the same rock crevice each year. At night it lays an enormous egg, feeding its chick until the nestling weighs more than both parents put together. It seems to have little fear of humans, but was itself feared by ancient seafarers. This might sound like the stuff of legend but is actually the description of a real creature, the storm-petrel: walker on water, global wanderer, climate sentinel and open-ocean survivor.In this beautifully written monograph, Rob Thomas explores the remarkable life of the European Storm-petrel, comparing and contrasting its behaviour and ecology across its range, and with the other storm-petrels of the world. We learn about their evolution, taxonomy, migration and adaptations to a life in the harsh open ocean, while also discovering what these enigmatic seabirds are revealing about what humans are doing to our planet.Illustrated with 150 photographs, and including the author's personal anecdotes and observations, Storm-petrels highlights some of the most exciting recent research findings and sets a trajectory for future discoveries.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472985828
ISBN-10: 1472985826
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 150 colour photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T & AD Poyser
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Author is the world's leading authority on storm-petrels

Notă biografică

Rob Thomas is Reader in Behavioural Ecology at the University of Swansea, where he has been based for almost 20 years. He specialises in bird population ecology, and especially seabirds. His at-sea storm-petrel work has seen him recapturing the birds around the shores of the UK as well as Portugal and western Africa.

Cuprins

Preface1. Introduction: the European Storm-petrel and its relatives2. What is a storm-petrel?3. The challenges of survival at sea4. Diet and foraging behaviour5. The storm-petrel's sensory world6. Tracking the tiniest seabirds7. Communication and mate choice8. Breeding biology9. Predators, parasites and pathogens10. Conservation of storm-petrels11. The southern storm-petrels12. The northern storm-petrels13. Storm-petrels in human culture14. Encounters with storm-petrelsEpilogueAcknowledgementsReferencesGlossaryIndex