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  • EGAGRÓPILAS *
    EGAGRÓPILAS *
    RUBÉN FERNÁNDEZ
    Esta obra invita a explorar uno de los indicios más fascinantes y reveladores de la vida animal: las egagrópilas. Más allá de ser simples restos de alimento no digerido, estas pequeñas bolas de pelo, plumas y hueso, e incluso escamas y espinas, restos de artrópodos o vegetales, son auténticos capítulos de libro que narran no solo la dieta de las aves, sino también la d...
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  • THE EAST ATLANTIC FLYWAY OF COASTAL BIRDS *
    THE EAST ATLANTIC FLYWAY OF COASTAL BIRDS *
    PETER PROKOSCH (EDITOR)
    Embark on an extraordinary journey along the East Atlantic Flyway, a spectacular route traversed by millions of shorebirds as they navigate between their breeding grounds in the Arctic and their wintering destinations in Europe and Africa. Covering up to 16,000 kilometres twice a year, these remarkable creatures engage in one of the most awe-inspiring natural spectacles on Eart...
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  • EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE LAS AVES *
    EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE LAS AVES *
    TONG, WENFEI
    Las aves son criaturas inteligentes y sociables que muestran un amplio abanico de comportamientos (desde el asedio y la imitación hasta el emparejamiento y la cría en común de los pollitos). ¿Por qué se comportan como se comportan? Aportando luz a los singulares actos de las aves a través de ejemplos de especies de todo el mundo, El comportamiento de las aves presenta fas...
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  • EL COMPORTAMENT DELS OCELLS
    EL COMPORTAMENT DELS OCELLS
    TONG, WENFEI
    Els ocells són bèsties intel·ligents i sociables que mostren un ampli ventall de comportaments (des de l’assetjament i la imitació, a l’aparellament i la cria en comú dels polls). Per què és comporten com es comporten? Esbrinarem com els ocells busquen menjar, a partir de tàctiques d’alimentació, mitjans i furts. Aprendrem coses sobre els rituals de festeig a travé...
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  • 200 CANTOS DE AVES DE TODO EL MUNDO *
    200 CANTOS DE AVES DE TODO EL MUNDO *
    BELETSY, LES
    Lea y escuche aves de seis continentes. Una hermosa pintura ilustra cada selección junto con detalles concisos sobre el comportamiento, el entorno y las vocalizaciones del ave. En el reproductor de audio digital incorporado, escuche a cada ave mientras canta o llama en la naturaleza con el audio de las aves proporcionado por la Biblioteca Macaulay en el Laboratorio de Ornitolo...
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  • THE BIOLOGY OF MOULT IN BIRDS * (POR ENCARGO 3-5 DÍAS LAB.)
    THE BIOLOGY OF MOULT IN BIRDS * (POR ENCARGO 3-5 DÍAS LAB.)
    LUKAS JENNI
    Unique to birds and with a multitude of functions, feathers are amazing structures. All birds need to renew their feathers periodically, in a process called moult. Because feathers can only be renewed as a whole, all functions of the plumage are impaired during moult, and so this process has a crucial impact on most aspects of a bird's life. Therefore the period of moult is one...
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  • BIRD MIGRATION *
    BIRD MIGRATION *
    IAN NEWTON
    This is a paperback reissue of Bird Migration, which was first published in 2010.The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and autumn, and providing a reliable calendar long before anything better became available. This edition is produced from an original c...
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  • ORNITHOLOGY: *
    ORNITHOLOGY: *
    MORRISON M.L.
    Aves, the birds, is the wildlife group that people most frequently encounter. With over 10,000 species worldwide, these animals are part of our everyday experience. They are also the focus of intense research, and their management and conservation is a subject of considerable effort throughout the world. But what are the defining attributes that make a bird a bird?Aimed at unde...
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  • THE ASCENT OF BIRDS *
    THE ASCENT OF BIRDS *
    JOHN REILLY
    When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? What enabled them to survive the meteoric impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? How did these early birds spread across the globe and give rise to the 10,500-plus species we recognise today – from the largest ratites to the smallest hummingbirds? Based on the latest scientific discoveries and enriched by personal observa...
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  • SONGS OF LOVE AND WAR *
    SONGS OF LOVE AND WAR *
    DOMINIC COUZENS
    The dawn chorus: a single voice cutting through the darkness heralds a breaking wave of sound at the very beginning of the day. It is an iconic natural phenomenon with many familiar performers, yet it is a mysterious event for which there is no complete explanation.A mass of starlings gathers at the end of the midwinter day. As the sun sets, wave upon wave of bodies rolls in an...
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  • BIRDS: *
    BIRDS: *
    JONATHAN ELPHICK
    Explore the wonders of the avian world with this comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to every aspect of bird life. It is a reformatted, resized and fully updated edition of the first part of the highly acclaimed reference The World of Birds, published by the Natural History Museum in 2014.Highly respected ornithologist and wildlife expert, Jonathan Elphick, begins by defi...
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  • THE RISE OF BIRDS: *
    THE RISE OF BIRDS: *
    CHATTERJEE S.
    A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in the age of dinosaurs. He called it Protoavis, and the animal that owned these bones q...
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  • NEUROSCIENCE OF BIRDSONG *
    NEUROSCIENCE OF BIRDSONG *
    ZEIGLER H.P.
    Speech has long been thought of as a uniquely defining characteristic of humans. Yet song birds, like humans, communicate using learned signals (song, speech) that are acquired from their parents by a process of vocal imitation. Both song and speech begin as amorphous vocalizations (subsong, babble) that are gradually transformed into an individualized version of the parents' s...
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  • PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS FOR BREEDING IN BIRDS *
    PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS FOR BREEDING IN BIRDS *
    TONY D. WILLIAMS
    Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration of female avian reproductive physiology and ecology, and an emphasis on individual variation in life-history traits. Tony Williams investigates the physiological, metabolic, energetic, and hormonal mech...
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  • INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION IN BIRDS *
    INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION IN BIRDS *
    ANDRÉ A. DHONDT
    In nature there exist three main types of biotic interactions between individuals of different species: competition, predation, and mutualism. All three exert powerful selection pressures, and all three shape communities. However, the question of how important interspecific competition in nature really is remains controversial and unresolved. This book provides a critical and e...
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  • INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION IN BIRDS *
    INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION IN BIRDS *
    ANDRÉ A DHONDT
    In nature there exist three main types of biotic interactions between individuals of different species: competition, predation, and mutualism. All three exert powerful selection pressures, and all three shape communities. However, the question of how important interspecific competition in nature really is remains controversial and unresolved.This book provides a critical and ex...
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  • AVIAN INVASIONS *
    AVIAN INVASIONS *
    BLACKBURN, TIM M.
    Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing globalization of our society ensures that the need to understand the process of biological invasion will only increase in the future. There is also a growing recognition that the study of biological invad...
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  • THE INNER BIRD. ANATOMY AND EVOLUTION * (POR ENGARGO 2 SEM. APROX.)
    THE INNER BIRD. ANATOMY AND EVOLUTION * (POR ENGARGO 2 SEM. APROX.)
    GARY W. KAISER
    Introduces readers to the avian skeleton, and discusses the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other ancestors. Using examples from discovered fossils of birds and near-birds, this work describes an avian history based on the gradual abandonment of dinosaur-like characteristics, and the related acquisition of avian characteristics. ...
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  • ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF STEPPE-LAND BIRDS *
    ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF STEPPE-LAND BIRDS *
    BOTA CABAU, G.
    What are steppe birds? Why are they currently among the most threatened in the world? What measures should be implemented to ensure their conservation? This book stands out as a serious treatise on the biology of steppe birds and the environmental threats they face. It has been authored by recognised specialists in the field of biology and conservation as related to this hetero...
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  • BIRD ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION * (CONSULTAR DISPONIBILIDAD)
    BIRD ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION * (CONSULTAR DISPONIBILIDAD)
    SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM J.
    Edited by a team of world-renowned ornithologists, this book aims to outline the main methods and techniques available to ornithologists. A general shortage of information about available techniques is greatly hindering progress in avian ecology and conservation. Currently this sort of information is disparate and difficult to locate with much of it widely dispersed in books, j...
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