CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses

by John B. Dunning, Jr.

Overview

See what's new in the Second Edition:          Number of species included is increased from 6300 to over 8700, about 85% of the world's birds          Better data for many of the species included in the first edition- an exhaustive compilation of new data publis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040070345
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/05/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	672
File size:	19 MB
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Table of Contents

Body Masses of Birds of the World. Body Masses and Composition of Migrant Birds in the Eastern United States. Literature Cited. Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"… contains a vastly increased dataset. Not only does it include more than 2400 additional species, but many of the data for species that were included in the first edition have also been updated, increased or improved in some other way. … a mine of information for many research workers. It now includes data on some 88% of the world’s species – a fantastic achievement both by the author and by ornithologists in general."

—Christopher Perrins, in The International Journal of Avian Science (2010)

Editorial Reviews

"… contains a vastly increased dataset. Not only does it include more than 2400 additional species, but many of the data for species that were included in the first edition have also been updated, increased or improved in some other way. … a mine of information for many research workers. It now includes data on some 88% of the world’s species – a fantastic achievement both by the author and by ornithologists in general."

—Christopher Perrins, in The International Journal of Avian Science (2010)

Praise for the First Edition:

“This is a truly valuable book that should be on most ornithologists’ shelves.”
— Christopher Perrins, Oxford University
“Barny Dunning has done a remarkable service for avian biologists in pulling together so much published and unpublished data on bird weights. Besides providing an easily accessible source to such a mass of data, the book serves to stimulate plenty of further research to fill in missing species, bolster sample sizes, and seek comparative data among populations, races, and geographic areas, as well as variation with season.”
— Martin K. McNicholl, North American Bird Bander

From the Publisher