Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America A Photographic Guide

Name: Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America A Photographic Guide
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ISBN: 9780691142111

ISBN-10: 0691142114

ISBN-13: 9780691142111

Edition: 2012

Authors: Steve N. G. Howell

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 7.44" wide x 10.24" long x 1.53" tall
Weight: 3.982
Language: English



List of Species Covered


Preface


Acknowledgments


How to Use This Book


Format of the Species Accounts


Introduction


What Are Tubenoses?


Ocean Habitats


Current Systems


Thermoclines, Upwelling, and Fronts


Habitat Associations


Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Vagrancy


Taxonomy and an Identification Framework


Family Procellariidae: Petrels


Family Diomedeidae: Albatrosses


Family Hydrobatidae: Northern Storm-Petrels


Family Oceanitidae: Southern Storm-Petrels


Field Identification of Tubenoses


Age, Sex, Individual, and Geographic Variation


Flight Manner


Environmental Factors


Appearance and Topography


Molts, Plumages, and Aging


How to See Tubenoses


Conservation


Threats to Seabirds


Seabirds as Indicators


Species Accounts


Abbreviations and Terminology



Recently Extinct Species



Hypothetical Records


Literature Cited


Index