The Pied Flycatcher

ISBN: 9781408137802 出版年：2010 页码：280 Arne Lundberg Bloomsbury Publishing

The Pied Flycatcher is one of Europe's best-studied species. The first detailed work on it was begun in the 1930s by German ornithologistLars von Haartman's Finnish study that both established long-term research on the species and foundcentral themes of modern ornithologin tBruce Campbell set up an intensive project in southwest England, which also still runs to this day. Many other eminent ornithologists followed and in 1979 Arne Lundberg and Rauno Alatalo started their own work in Sweden, Finland and latterly the north of England. A Palaearctic migrant, the Pied Flycatcher is notable for its very variable male plumage and complex territorial and polygynous breeding system. They take readily and have provided excellent opportunities for the study ofof biological problems. This broad review of the species providdetailed biology of this fascinating little bird, but a commentary most interesting problems in bird behaviour and ecology. Illustrated by Tomas Part