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Zusatztext OUP are always keen to support the text with good illustrations. The series is characterised by specially commissioned colour plates, here done by Eustace Barnes, that illustrate species, subspecies, genders and age-related plumage characteristics. In this volume, colour photographs of some of the bowers are included. Add to this clear maps and line drawings, as well as half-tone photographs by the author, and as a result The Bowerbirds becomes an attractive book that is worthy of any bookshelf ... From my own perspective, I love this book. Informationen zum Autor Clifford Frith is the author of a highly-respected companion volume in the Bird Families of the World series, The Birds of Paradise. Clifford's early ornithological positions included the The Natural History Museum, London, and the Royal Society of London Research Station, Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean. He obtained his PhD at Griffith University, Brisbane, for evolutionary studies of bowerbirds and birds of paradise. Dawn Frith obtained her PhD, in littoral zone marine biology, at London University and lectured in zoology before meeting Clifford on Aldabra Atoll, where she studied insects. Both Cliff and Dawn are private ornithologists and self-employed natural history authors, photographers, and publishers. They have worked on tropical Australasian birds, as well as various other avian, other vertebrate, and invertebrate, groups, and mangrove ecology, in the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, and tropical Pacific. They are Honorary Research Fellows of the Queensland Museum and joint recipients of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union's D. L. Serventy Medal for contributions to ornithology. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Includes scientific discoveries on every aspect of the bowerbird family. Illustrated with colour plates and line drawings, this work is of interest to ornithologists, particularly those with an interest in the birds of Australasia. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of colour plates List of abbreviations Plan of the book Diagrams of bird topography Map showing some locations mentioned in the text Boundaries of the regional maps used in the species accounts of Chapter 8 PART I General chapters 1: The bowerbirds--an introduction 2: Systematics and biogeography 3: Ecological cycles, foraging, and other behaviour 4: Morphology, demography, bower sites, structures, and their significance 5: Bower site acquisition, fidelity, attendance, and courtship displays 6: Breeding biology and parental care 7: Evolution of mating systems and sexual selection PART II Family, genus, and species accounts 8: Family PTILONORHYNCHIDAE 20 species in 8 genera Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index ...
