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English Pages 470 [484] Year 1988
Table of contents :
1) An Introduction to Ornithology Chapter 2) General Design of an Avian Flying Machine Chapter 3) Flight Chapter 4) Speciation and Radiation Chapter 5) Constraints on Avian Diversity Chapter 6) Systematics and Taxonomy: Classifying Birds Chapter 7) Foraging Behavior Chapter 8) Adaptions to Survival in Extreme Environments Chapter 9) Migration Chapter 10) The Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction Chapter 11) General Patterns of Reproductive Behavior Chapter 12) Adaptive Variation in Avian Reproduction