Description
This much-anticipated third edition of Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the incredible diversity of avian lifestyles. Arising from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology and authored by a team of experts from around the world, the Handbook covers all aspects of avian diversity, behaviour, ecology, evolution, physiology, and conservation. Using examples drawn from birds found in every corner of the globe, it explores and distills the many scientific discoveries that have made birds one of our best known – and best loved – parts of the natural world. This edition has been completely revised and is presented with more than 800 full color images. It provides readers with a tool for life-long learning about birds and is suitable for bird watchers and ornithology students, as well as for ecologists, conservationists, and resource managers who work with birds. This resource is the companion volume to the Cornell Lab’s renowned distance learning course, www.birds.cornell.edu/courses/home/homestudy/. 730 p.
Series: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Editor. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA).
- Irby J. Lovette, Editor. Professor of Ornithology, Associate Director for Academic Affairs at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Director of the Lab’s Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Curator of Genomics at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA).
- John W. Fitzpatrick, Editor. Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Professor. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
- Publication date (digital version): 2019-07.
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