The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior is the new landmark book from David Allen Sibley. Designed to enhance the birding experience and to enrich the popular study of North American birds, the book combines more than 795 of his full-color illustrations with authoritative text by 48 expert birders and biologists. In this new guide Sibley takes us beyond identification, to show us how birds live and what they do.
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Introductory essays outline the principles of avian evolution, life cycle, body structure, flight dynamics, and more. The 80 family-by-family chapters describe the amazing range of behavior dictated by birds’ biology and environment. Among the subjects covered and illustrated are:
molts and plumages
habitats
food and foraging
vocalizations and displays
courtship and breeding
rearing of young
migration and movements
scientific groupings
- introduced species
accidental species
anatomy
flight patterns
nests and eggs
conservation
global distribution