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Weather & Bird Behaviour, N. Elkins: Hardback: Signed: 1st Ed: Ornithology
Weather & Bird Behaviour, N. Elkins: Hardback: Signed: 1st Ed: Ornithology
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Weather & Bird Behaviour
By Norman Elkins.
Published by T & A D Poyser, London, 1983. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket (unclipped), 239 pages. Illustrated, with photography, black & white.
Very good condition. Signed by author. No names or writing. See Pictures.
The book's emphasis is on the effects of weather on bird life and the meteorological aspects of R avian environment rather than long-term climatic influences, though the latter are not ignored.
The chapter titles indicate the book's range and interest: The Weather, Flight; Feeding: Aerial Feeding, Breeding-Comfort; Migration; Migrational Drift and Displacement; Vagrancy; Migration of Soaring Birds; Extreme Weather; Seabirds. From such themes the author, professional meteorologist, has composed an intriguing and instructive study (and an introduction to meteorology) of exceptional usefulness to birdwatchers and ornithologists.
Crispin Fisher has contributed over 30 line illustrations and there is a section of photographs.
(Bindery shelves A3)
