Birds in Their Habitats : Journeys with a Naturalist.

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prelude; Introduction; 1 Deserts; Warrigal Waterhole, north-west Queensland: an oasis; Desert seed eaters; Budgerigars; South-west Queensland: locust swarms; Woodswallows and nomadism; Flock Bronzewings and Fairy Martins; The Sahel: arid woodland; The Quail-plover: of birding and twitching; Waza National Park and its panting birds; Waza: guineafowl and sandgrouse; The Atacama: the driest desert; Flamingos; Other memories of deserts; References; 2 Rainforests; Western Cameroon: lowland tropical rainforest; When birding is tough: Picathartes.

When birding is tough: Mt Kupé BushshrikeJulatten, north Queensland: a magnet for birders; Mount Kinabalu, Sabah; Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon: vanishing birds; Mindo Valley, Ecuador: a jewel in the crown; Paz de las Aves: positive ecotourism news; Aguas Verdes, northern Peru: more positive ecotourism news; Acjanaco Pass Road, southern Peru: cloud forest; Andean Cock-of-the-Rock: leks; Top End, Australia: monsoon forests; Pittas: old passerines; Kibale Forest, Uganda: more pittas; Paluma, north Queensland: fragmented rainforest; Riflebirds and speciation.

Cairns, north Queensland: hovering sunbirdOther memories of rainforests; References; 3 Oceans and islands; The Galápagos: oceanic islands; 'Darwin's finches'; Darwin's beach; Tasmania: a continental island; Island endemism; Tasmanian Scrubtit: an older endemic; The 'turbo chook': a cautionary tale; Lord Howe Island: a volcanic speck; Island extinctions; The Lord Howe Island Woodhen: almost not there and back again; Island breeding colonies: from Fernandina to Cape Town to Victoria to Chile; Chile's Chonos Archipelago: prolific seabirds; Wind soaring; Other memories of oceans and islands.

References4 Mountains; Torres del Paine NP: Andean Condors; Featherless heads; The awesome alula: making flight possible; Can birds smell?; K-selected breeders: ' have one kid, make sure it survives'; Colca Canyon: high-altitude birding; Soaring: ultimate flight; The Drakensbergs, Lesotho: snow in Africa; Bearded Vulture: digesting bones; Torres del Paine again: New World vultures; Unexpected origins; Flying high: how do they do it?; Other memories of mountains; References; Colour plates; 5 Wetlands and rivers; Gum Swamp, New South Wales.

R-selected breeders: ' have lots of kids, hope a couple survive'Grey Teal and breeding triggers; Musk Ducks: a story of a duck's luck; Showing off in the water; Cocha Salvador, Peruvian Amazonia; Single-species Families; Birds eating their greens; Muscovy Ducks, and birds in service; Jerrabomberra Wetlands, Canberra; Preening; Other memories of wetlands and rivers; References; 6 Suburbia; Canberra: crafty cockies; Learning to live in town; Canberra again: the Great Koel debate; Birds in a warming world; Melbourne Cricket Ground: a groggy gull; When birds collide.

Canberra yet again: hybrid parrots.

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