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The Migration of North American Birds (1935)

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The Migration of North American Birds (1935)

Frederick Charles Lincoln

113 pages~2 hr 15 min read48 chapters$4.99
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How does a small bird find its way across a hemisphere? Frederick Lincoln lays out the mystery of migration: the theories of its causes, the ancestral home ideas, photoperiodism, and the timing of the flights. Clear, authoritative, and grounded in real banding data. A fine account of North American bird migration and the science behind it. Chart the great seasonal journeys of the flocks.

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48 chapters

  1. 1THE MIGRATION OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS[1]
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3INTRODUCTION
  4. 4THE MYSTERY OF MIGRATION
  5. 5HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS
  6. 6ADVANTAGES OF MIGRATION
  7. 7THEORIES OF THE CAUSES OF MIGRATION
  8. 8NORTHERN ANCESTRAL HOME THEORY
  9. 9SOUTHERN ANCESTRAL HOME THEORY
  10. 10THEORY OF PHOTOPERIODISM
  11. 11WHEN BIRDS MIGRATE
  12. 12MOVEMENTS OF SPECIES AND GROUPS
  13. 13NOCTURNAL AND DIURNAL MIGRATION
  14. 14HOW BIRDS MIGRATE
  15. 15SPEED OF FLIGHT AND SPEED OF MIGRATION
  16. 16ALTITUDES AT WHICH BIRDS TRAVEL
  17. 17ORIENTATION
  18. 18SEGREGATION DURING MIGRATION

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