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A comprehensive monograph on the Atlantic Puffin. With its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, this is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds.
Puffins spend most of the year at sea, but for a few months of the year the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of these birds can sometimes be seen bobbing on the sea or flying in vast wheels over the colony, bringing fish in their beaks back to the chicks. However, the species has declined sharply over the last decade; this is due to a collapse in fish stocks caused by overfishing and global warming, combined with an exponential increase in Pipefish (which can kill the chicks).
The Puffin is a revised and expanded second edition of Poyser's 1984 title on these endearing birds, widely considered to be a Poyser classic. It includes sections on their affinities, nesting and incubation, movements, foraging ecology, survivorship, predation, and research methodology; particular attention is paid to conservation, with the species considered an important 'indicator' of the health of our coasts.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Introduction and Acknowledgements
1 Puffins and auks
2 Studies of puffins
3 Appearance, development and moult
4 Distribution and status in Britain, Ireland and France
5 Distribution and status in Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, Norway, Russia, Svalbard, Greenland and the western Atlantic
6 Colony attendance and incubation
7 Chick rearing and breeding success
8 Puffin behaviour (by Kenny Taylor)
9 Food and feeding
10 Predators, pirates, parasites and competitors
11 Survival of Puffins and the Isle of May population
12 Puffins away from the colony
13 Puffins and people
14 Other threats to Puffins
15 Overview and the future
Appendices
References
Plate Section
Product details
| Published | Nov 21 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781408160558 |
| Imprint | T & AD Poyser |
| Illustrations | 45 line illustrations; 8pp colour section |
| Series | Poyser Monographs |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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