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These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows. and seabirders.
Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.”
This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.
These are extremely detailed, covering distribution, behavior, and plumage by age and gender (when relevant) and comparisons with other species in and external to the group. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs.
The authors examine migration related traits and address the theoretical problems of massive comparisons across large numbers of physical features and behaviors across many species. Loons hardly ever fly when they are on their breeding grounds or their winter-water, but the migration is for many loons a non-trivial distance.
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