RSPB Migration Hotspots

ISBN: 9781408171172 出版年：2016 页码：226 Tim Harris Bloomsbury Publishing

Each spring and autumn hundreds of millions of birds - wildfowl, shorebirds, raptors, and passerines - migrate between higher and lower latitudes, or in some cases between high latitudes in the northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the southern hemisphere. In a handful of places around the world, a combination of geography, topography and climate combine to funnel migrant birfronts, leading to migration hotspots, places where, for a few days each year, birds seem to be everywhere. The sight of thousands upon thousands of birds is one of nature's greatest wildlife spectacles.Migration Hotspots takes a look at 30 of the locations where the planet's most dramatic bird migration can be witnessebottlenecks such as Veracruz (Mexico) and the Strait of Messina (Italy) to places like Point Pelée (Canada) and Beidaihe (China) where spectacular falls of songbirds cAnd from wetlands where huge numbers of waders stop ovand autumn to the great rarity islands of Scilly and Heligoland.Teach of the world's major avian flyways and features stunning photography throughout. The geographical reasons for the importance of each hotspot are explained, with a summary of the different birds that pass through and the best times them, and an introductory chapter summarises birds' migration strategies.