Handbook of Bird Biology (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) By IrJ. Lovette,John W. Fitzpatrick

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Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016 This much-anticipated third edition of the 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. The Handbook of Bird Biology is the companion volume to the Cornell Lab’s renowned distance learning course, Ornithology: Comprehensive Bird Biology.

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This is a luxurious, colorful, 700-page survey of bird biology. It is a textbook—not a handbook—meant for college students or others interested in ornithology. Its 15 chapters by 18 authors discuss avian evolution, taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, plumage, flight, behavior, movement, ecology, and conservation.Don't judge this book by its glossy cover. The book suffers from poor editorial oversight. The chapters vary in quality, from very high to very low. The book feels like a collection of articles that were written independently of each other and dropped into their slots by editors who did not require consistently high quality.Some chapters are very good. The chapter on plumage describes, among many feathery topics, the intricate structures of feathers, and tells how they grow. The chapter about mating and social behavior gives examples of amazing mating constructs, like the bowers of bowerbirds, and interprets them in terms of ecological genetics. Breeding biology—territories, nests, eggs, young, parental care—gets lively treatment in another nice chapter.Some other chapters are sorely inadequate. The chapter on flight, at 20 pages, is the shortest chapter in the book (next shortest chapter, 38 pages). It fails to explain lift, ignores effects of altitude and temperature, says nothing about the energetics of long migration flights. The writing is disorganized and verbose; figures have incomprehensible labels. The chapter on taxonomy is spotty, uneven, and poorly organized. The chapter fails to define the taxon “Bird.” It says that cladistics gave phylogenetics “a sound and logical theoretical footing,” but it doesn't says what that footing was. A 16-page table lists bird orders and families, but it does not explain how these taxa are defined or how they relate to each other.

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