- Hardcover: 456 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (7 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195099761
- ISBN-13: 978-0195099768
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.8 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,207,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The amount of work being done on parasitic birds in recent years has accelerated at an astounding rate. This book is the first one to present a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the diverse kinds of birds and interactions involved in avian brood parasitism. Written by an outstanding group of individuals and research groups around the world who have been responsible for nearly every major study in the last ten years, the chapters in this volume offer valuable summaries along with substantial new research. Broad ranging in scope, the book covers topics including coevolution between cuckoos and their hosts, coevolution between cowbirds and their hosts, models of parasite-host coevolution, effects of parasitism on host population dynamics, and the consequences of parasitism for mating systems. With all the emphasis on forest fragmentation and the influx of parasitism this is an important work for all serious students and interested naturalists."--Indiana Audubon Quarterly
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This book is the first to present a copmprehensive overview of the diverse kinds of birds and interactions involved in avian brood parasitism. This phenomenon has attracted the interests of naturalists and evolutionists since Darwin, yet very few researchers applied modern evolutionary theory and experimental methods to the study of the adaptations for and against brood parasitism by parasitic birds and their hosts until 25 years ago. The amount of work being done on parasitic birds has grown at an accelerating rate in the last decade as numerous researchers have begun to pursue the study of these birds.
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The ludicrous sight of a fledgling cukoo or cow-bird being fed by an adult host less than a half its size (cover of book) makes it easy to see why parasitic birds have attracted so much attention. Read the first page
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The ludicrous sight of a fledgling cukoo or cow-bird being fed by an adult host less than a half its size (cover of book) makes it easy to see why parasitic birds have attracted so much attention. Read the first page
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