The Kittiwake

ISBN: 9781408152348 出版年：2011 页码：313 John Coulson Bloomsbury Publishing

Returning to its breeding sites in the spring after a winter spesea, the Kittiwake is a familiar sight around the coasts of Britain and Europe. A pale, medium-siz'gentle' expressiyellow bill, the Kittiwake has been the subject of behavioural research since the late 1950s - one of the longest running studies in the world. Monograph, John Coulson summarises these decades of research, revealing amazing insights into the life of these gulls, with wider implications for the behavioural ecology of all colonial birds. There are sections on life at sea, nest-site selection, breeding biology, feeding ecology, colony dynamics, moult, survivorship and conservation.This book is essential for academics working on colonial species, and is also of great interest to birders who want to learn more about these elegant cliff-dwelling birds.