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Arctic shorebirds in North America

Bart, Jonathan Rober, Johnston, Victoria Helen

2012

Overview

Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most productive and pristine coasts anywhere. With so much available food they are able to reproduce almost explosively; and as winter approaches, they retreat south along with their offspring, to return to the Arctic the following spring. This remarkable pattern of movement and activity has been the object of intensive study by an international team of ornithologists who have spent a decade counting, surveying, and observing these shorebirds. In this important synthetic work, they address multiple questions about these migratory bird populations. How many birds occupy Arctic ecosystems each summer? How long do visiting shorebirds linger before heading south? How fecund are these birds? Where exactly do they migrate and where exactly do they return? Are their populations growing or shrinking? The results of this study are crucial for better understanding how environmental policies will influence Arctic habitats as well as the far-ranging winter habitats used by migratory shorebirds.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Alaska / arctic ecosystems / arctic habitats / bird population / bird science / Bird surveys / Bird surveys -- Alaska / Bird surveys -- Canada, Northern / bird watchers / birds in the cold / birds in the winter / books about birds / books for animal lovers / Canada, Northern / conservation of birds / distractions for kids / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / educational books / environment books / environmental ecosystem / head south for the winter / home school science books / interesting books / leisure reads / Life Sciences / NATURE / Ecology / nature lovers / NATURE / Animals / Wildlife / Ornithology / passion books / planet earth lovers / SCIENCE / SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology / Shore birds / Shore birds -- Alaska / Shore birds -- Canada, Northern / shorebirds / vacation books / wildlife / winter habitats / Zoology
• ISBN: 0520273109, 9780520273108, 9780520953499, 0520953495