Neotropical Owls

Author : Paula L. Enriquez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319571089

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Neotropical Owls by Paula L. Enriquez Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive biological and ecological information about owls in the neotropic area. In addition the book covers topics such as threats and conservation strategies for these nocturnal birds of prey from 18 Neotropical countries. Owls are a good example of diversification processes and have developed evolutionary characteristics themselves. These species are found almost everywhere in the world but most of them are distributed in tropical areas and about a third of them live in the Neotropics. This biogeographic region has a high biodiversity and even share lineages of species from other continents because at some point all were part of Pangea. Although we still have much to know and understand about this diverse, scarcely studied and threatened group this work aims to be a precedent for future and further research on the subject.

Author : Erik I. Johnson,Jared D. Wolfe
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351646079

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Molt in Neotropical Birds by Erik I. Johnson,Jared D. Wolfe Pdf

Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this book reviews and describes these strategies for nearly 190 species based on information gathered from a 30-year study of Central Amazonian birds. Most species accounts are illustrated with several color photos focusing on wing and tail feather molt, molt limits, and how to use these patterns to accurately age birds. Published in collaboration with and on behalf of the American Ornithological Society, this volume in the highly-regarded Studies in Avian Biology series is a rich source of life history information for ornithologists working on tropical birds.

Author : John Kricher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400885589

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The New Neotropical Companion by John Kricher Pdf

The acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics—now fully updated and expanded The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book that has helped thousands of people to understand the complex ecology and natural history of the most species-rich area on Earth, the American tropics. Featuring stunning color photos throughout, it is a sweeping and cutting-edge account of tropical ecology that includes not only tropical rain forests but also other ecosystems such as cloud forests, rivers, savannas, and mountains. This is the only guide to the American tropics that is all-inclusive, encompassing the entire region's ecology and the amazing relationships among species rather than focusing just on species identification. The New Neotropical Companion is a book unlike any other. Here, you will learn how to recognize distinctive ecological patterns of rain forests and other habitats and to interpret how these remarkable ecosystems function—everything is explained in clear and engaging prose free of jargon. You will also be introduced to the region's astonishing plant and animal life. Informative and entertaining, The New Neotropical Companion is a pleasurable escape for armchair naturalists, and visitors to the American tropics will want to refer to this book before, during, and after their trip. Covers all of tropical America Describes the species and habitats most likely to be observed by visitors Includes every major ecosystem, from lowland rain forests to the high Andes Features a wealth of color photos of habitats, plants, and animals

Author : James R. Duncan,David H. Johnson,Thomas H. Nicholls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Birds
ISBN : MINN:31951D029964424

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Biology and Conservation of Owls of the Northern Hemisphere by James R. Duncan,David H. Johnson,Thomas H. Nicholls Pdf

Author : Heimo Mikkola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781839628122

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Ecosystem and Biodiversity of Amazonia by Heimo Mikkola Pdf

The Amazonia is the largest continuous river basin and rainforest ecosystem in the world. In all aspects it is a natural wonder, and the rainforest with its billions of trees is a vital carbon store that slows down the advance of global warming. It is home to one million indigenous people and some three million species of plants and animals. There have been many climate fluctuations during the last 55 million years of its existence, but never before have “the lungs of the world” been at greater risk than they are today due to uncontrolled fires, expanding agriculture and heavy industrial development in the forms of oil drilling, mining and large hydroelectric dams. Over twelve chapters, this book describes the anthropological, biological and industrial problems facing the Amazonia, and seeks to find new solutions.

Author : David Whitacre
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801466113

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Neotropical Birds of Prey by David Whitacre Pdf

Until recently, surprisingly little has been known about the biology and behavior of tropical forest raptors, including such basic aspects as diets, breeding biology, habitat requirements, and population ecology, information critical to the development of conservation efforts. The Peregrine Fund conducted a significant eight-year-long research program on the raptor species, including owls, in Tikal National Park in Guatemala to learn more about Neotropical birds of prey. Impressive and unprecedented in scale, this pioneering research also involved the development of new methods for detecting, enumerating, and studying these magnificent but often elusive birds in their forest home. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of previously little-known species, the resulting book is the most important single source for information on the lowland tropical forest raptor species found in Central America.Neotropical Birds of Prey covers twenty specific species in depth, including the Ornate Hawk-Eagle, the Barred Forest-Falcon, the Bat Falcon, and the Mexican Wood Owl, offering thorough synopses of all current knowledge regarding breeding biology and behavior, diet, habitat use, and spatial needs. Contributors to this landmark work also show how the populations fit together as a community with overlapping habitat and prey needs that can put them in competition with reptiles and mammalian carnivores as well, yet differ from one another in their nesting or feeding behaviors and population dynamics. The work's substantive original data offer interesting comparisons between tropical and temperate zone species, and provide a basis for establishing conservation measures based on firsthand research. Making available for the first time new data on the biology, ecology, behavior, and conservation of the majestic owls and raptors of the New World tropics, this book will appeal to a wide ornithological readership, especially the many raptor enthusiasts around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : UOM:39015049373965

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General Technical Report NC. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Heimo Mikkola
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789840537

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Owls by Heimo Mikkola Pdf

Owls are soft-plumaged, short-tailed, big-headed birds that have the most frontally situated eyes of all birds and they can blink the upper eyelids. This, together with a broad facial disc, gives owls all the right characteristics to make them attractive in our eyes. At the same time, some people fear their presence and even their calls, and there are more myths and beliefs about owls than there are about any other bird.Bats are often similarly feared as owls, partly because both of them inhabit the night; a place that is unknown and alien to us. Owls and bats symbolise all that is mysterious about the night and their complete mastery of the darkness only highlights our own deficiencies. In this book, we will get to know the relationships between bats and owls. This book describes the biological control of rats by owls in Malaysia, the prey-predator interactions in a tropical forest in Mexico, and provides an overview of the breeding biology of owls. From numerous owl belief and myth studies, described in this book are those of the lesser known Central Asian countries where owls are often worshipped for their supernatural powers.

Author : Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec,Paweł Piszczatowski,Justyna Włodarczyk,Piotr Kociumbas
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783737013826

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Multiple Knowledges. Learning from/with Other Beings by Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec,Paweł Piszczatowski,Justyna Włodarczyk,Piotr Kociumbas Pdf

This issue of Transpositiones showcases a range of interdisciplinary and critical approaches to classic and alternative conceptions of cognition and sources of knowledge. The articles reflect on the many types of sensory and extrasensory knowledge available to non-human beings and wonder whether and in what ways can we, as humans, perceive, conceptualize, and respect these knowledges. The authors highlight how the existence of multiple knowledges questions species boundaries and onto- and epistemological perspectives, in the process of learning not only about other beings but also from and along with them. This selection of texts attempts to contribute to overcoming the anthropocentric perception of subjectivity and to the abandoning of an optics based on the dualisms of nature and culture, spirit and matter, subject and object, animate and inanimate nature, physis and techne, etc., which are so firmly entrenched in the Western intellectual tradition.

Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Owls
ISBN : 9780547840031

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Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul Pdf

"With detailed information about identification, calls, habitat, breeding, nesting, and behavior, this reference guide has the most up-to-date information about natural history, taxonomy, biology, ecology, migration and conservation status."--Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924080044674

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General Technical Report PNW-GTR by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce G. Marcot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Forest birds
ISBN : MINN:31951D02889112N

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Owls of Old Forests of the World by Bruce G. Marcot Pdf

Author : John C. Kricher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691009740

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A Neotropical Companion by John C. Kricher Pdf

Widely praised, "A Neotropical Companion" is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. 177 color illustrations.

Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780593298909

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What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman Pdf

An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? Some two hundred sixty species of owls exist today, and they reside on every continent except Antarctica, but they are far more difficult to find and study than other birds because they are cryptic, camouflaged, and mostly active at night. Though human fascination with owls goes back centuries, scientists have only recently begun to understand the complex nature of these extraordinary birds. In What an Owl Knows, Jennifer Ackerman joins scientists in the field and explores how researchers are using modern technology and tools to learn how owls communicate, hunt, court, mate, raise their young, and move about from season to season. Ackerman brings this research alive with her own personal field observations; the result is an awe-inspiring exploration of owls across the globe and through human history, and a spellbinding account of the world’s most enigmatic group of birds.

Author : John Henry Gurney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Birds of prey
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107161473

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Catalogue of the Birds of Prey (Accipitres and Striges), with the Number of Specimens in Norwich Museum by John Henry Gurney Pdf