Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Poyser Monographs) - Image 1

£50.00

T & AD Poyser Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Poyser Monographs)

Name: Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Poyser Monographs)
Brand: T & AD Poyser
Price: 50.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Birds

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£50 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 15 days • 15 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 15 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £50 (15 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £50 - £50

Price levels: 1 different prices over 15 days

Description

In this fascinating new book, Nick Davies describes the natural histories of these brood parasites and examines many of the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their prey. Brood parasites fill their armoury with adaptations including exquisite egg mimicry, rapid laying, ejection of host eggs, murder of host young, chick mimicry and manipulative begging behaviour: ploys shown by recent research to have evolved in response to host defence behaviour or through competition among the parasites themselves. While many host species appear defenceless, accepting parasite eggs quite unlike their own, many are more discriminating against odd-looking eggs and some have evolved the ability to discriminate against odd-looking chicks as well. How is this arms race conducted? Will defenceless hosts develop defences in time, or are there constraints which limit the evolution and perfection of host defences? And why are so few species obliged only to lay eggs in host nests? Have host defences limited the success of brood parasitism, or is it in fact much more common than we suspect, but occurring mainly when birds parasitize the nest of their own kind? All of these puzzles are examined in descriptions of the natural history of each of the groups of parasites in turn. Here is a book with wide appeal, both to amateur naturalists fascinated by this most singular and macabre of behaviours and by ornithologists and ecologists interested in the evolution of ecology and behaviour. The story takes us from the classic field work earlier this century by pioneer ornithologists such as Edgar Chance, Stuart Baker, Herbert Friedmann and others, through to the recent experimental field work and molecular techniques of today's leading scientists. We visit brood parasites in Europe, Asia, Japan, Africa, Australasia, and North and South America, to look at some of the worlds most interesting birds and some of biology's most interesting questions, many of which still beg answers from ornithologists in the future. Brilliant illustrations by David Quinn illuminate the species discussed, showing many behaviours never before illustrated and conveying the thrill of watching these astonishing birds in the wild.

Product Specifications

Brand: T & AD Poyser
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 140813666X
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Biological Sciences > Animal Sciences > Birds
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 January 2011
Listed Since: 08 October 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

T & AD Poyser Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Poyser Monographs)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

European Breeding Bird Atlas 2: Distribution, Abundance and Change

Chasing the 200

The Largest Avian Radiation: The Evolution of Perching Birds, or the Order Passeriformes

Book of Birds: Introduction to Ornithology (Gideon Lincecum Nature and Environment Series)

The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palaearctic

Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines

Bird Watching Book for Kids: A Feathered Adventure for Young Birdwatchers

In a Class of Their Own: A Detailed Examination of Avian Forms and Functions (Fascinating Life Sciences)

Red Data Birds in Britain (Poyser Monographs)

CRC Press Ecology and Management of Blackbirds (Icteridae)

Quercus Bill Bailey's Guide to British Birds - Pocket Paperback

Current Ornithology: 14

The Nuthatches (Poyser Monographs)

Avian Brood Parasitism: Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution (Fascinating Life Sciences)

The Birds of Turkey (Helm Field Guides)

Birds of North America: A Photographic Atlas

The Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland (Helm Avifaunas)

Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology: United States Edition

Wisconsin Bird Life: Population and Distribution Past and Present

Birds of Japan (Lynx and BirdLife International Field Guides)

Taxonomy of the birds of the world: The complete checklist of all bird species and subspecies of the world

Birds of British Columbia, Volume 4: Wood Warblers through Old World Sparrows

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago

Essential Ornithology