Author: Edwin Richard Kalmbach
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Category : Magpies
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Tim Birkhead
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408137771
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Two species of magpie feature in this book, the Black-billed Magpie, familiar to most Europeans, which occurs throughout much of the northern hemisphere, and the Yellow-billed Magpie, which is confined to California. Magpies are unmistakable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant manner. While their persecution at the hands of gamekeepers over the last hundred years has made them wary and difficult to approach, a number of recent field studies, both in Europe and North America, have successfully revealed the intricacies of the magpie way of life. Tim Birkhead has studied both species, and has produced a fascinating account of their ecology and behaviour. Many of the results from his ten-year study of magpies in northern England are published here for the first time. Particularly revealing however is his comparison of the two species and of their different races. Magpies occur in a wide range of habitats, including English farmland, the deserts of North America, the mountains of Saudi Arabia and the windswept plateaus of Tibet. As this book explains, magpies are able to exploit this diversity of habitats largely through their remarkably flexible social behaviour. The Magpies covers all aspects of their lives, including their marital relationships, food hoarding behaviour, longevity and survival, nesting behaviour, breeding success and their controversial relationship with man. The text is supported by numerous photographs, diagrams and tables, and superb illustrations by David Quinn.

Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: John M. Marzluff
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792374589
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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The twenty-seven contributions authored by leaders in the fields of avian and urban ecology present a unique summary of current research on birds in settled environments ranging from wildlands to exurban, rural to urban.

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Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1260

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1164

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Author: Villiam Geffert
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540775668
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2008, held in Slovakia, in 2008. The 57 revised full papers, presented together with 10 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The contributions are segmented into four topical sections on foundations of computer science; computing by nature; networks, security, and cryptography; and Web technologies.

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Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 1066

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