Sensory Ecology of Birds

This is the first integrated synthesis of avian sensory ecology, explaining the broad principles and taking the reader into the sensory world of birds from an evolutionary and ecological perspective.

List of contents

• 1: Birds' eye views


• 2: Vision


• 3: The non-visual senses of birds


• 4: Touch, taste, and magnetoreception


• 5: From senses to sensory ecology


• 6: Birds in the dark: complementary and partial information


• 7: Birds underwater: a paucity of information


• 8: What drives bird senses?


• 9: The sensory ecology of collisions and entrapment


• 10: Postscript: Conclusions, implications and comment

About the author

Graham R. Martin spent most of his career at the University of Birmingham, ending with a personal chair in Avian Sensory Science, in the School of Biosciences. The focus of his teaching was sensory science and animal behaviour, and he founded and led the only MSc programme in Ornithology in Europe. Over his career he has published papers on the senses of more than 60 species and carried out research in many locations (Antarctica, New Zealand, Africa, South America, Europe). He officially retired in 2011 but remains academically active and continues to publish on the vision of birds, most recently Hawks, Kites and Puffins.

Summary

This is the first integrated synthesis of avian sensory ecology, explaining the broad principles and taking the reader into the sensory world of birds from an evolutionary and ecological perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Graham R. Martin, Graham R. (Emeritus Professor Martin, Martin Graham R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2017
• EAN: 9780199694532
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969453-2
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Oxford Avian Biology Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, Zoology: birds (ornithology), Birds (ornithology), Animal Ecology, Zoology and animal sciences