- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Nature / Ecology
Full Description
Every year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds-human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats.
John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on the Texas Coast, and, in Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands, he presents a year in the birds' life through fine photographs and an evocative and informative text. In a month-by-month account, he follows the annual rituals and daily dramas of courtship, mating, and chick rearing among herons, egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, ibises, and other birds that migrate and gather in colonies ranging from half a dozen birds to tens of thousands.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
January. The Islands
February. The Gathering
March. Nest Building and Breeding
April. Nests and Eggs
May. Hatching and Chicks
June. Feeding Chicks: The Dispersion Begins
July. The Dispersion
August. Hurricane
September. Migration: The Winter Season Begins
Epilogue
Nesting Colonial Waterbird Species
Bibliography
Index
