Birds of tropical America : a watcher's introduction to behavior, breeding, and diversity
The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off.
Print Book, English, 2005
1st University of Texas Press ed View all formats and editions
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005
312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780292706736, 0292706731
56733127
AcknowledgmentsDreams Meet Reality in the American Tropics: A PrefaceAvian Addresses: Structure of a RainforestBird Community Tropical Diversity: Why So Many Bird Species in Tropical Forests?Ghosts of Rainforests Past: Amazonian BiogeographyHigh-Andean Genealogy: Unraveling Ice Age SecretsTropical Travelers: Migration Within the TropicsThe Clubbiest of Clubs: Life in a Mixed-Species FlockAntbirds Don't Eat Ants: Rhythms and Rituals at Ant SwarmsWho Is the Fairest? Colorfulness in Tropical and Temperate BirdsFruit of the Land: Birds, Fruit and Seed DispersalAnatomy of a Fruit Eater: Foraging Tactics of Fruit-Eating BirdsA Good Song and Dance: Alternative Life-Styles of Manakins and CotingasTerritories or Traplines? Hummingbird Foraging StrategiesCold Reality: Highland HummingbirdsSallying Forth: A Flycatcher BaedekerFinding a Needle in the Haystack: A Vulture's View of ParadiseThe Costs and Benefits of Growing Old: Life and Love Among the CaciquesSound Strategies: Sopranos Should Sing From the TreetopsPerilous Paradise: Tropical River IslandsIn Search of a Season: When Do Tropical Birds Nest?EpilogueBibliographyIndex
Originally published: Shelburne, Vt. : Chapters, ©1994, in series: The curious naturalist series