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The Sensory Ecology of Birds (Paperback)
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The Sensory Ecology of Birds (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Avian Biology Series
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Birds are renowned for their exceptional vision and the way that
this enables them to survive and navigate the world in such a
unique way. However, it is now recognised that avian behaviour is
guided by information drawn from many different senses which are
then used in integrated and complementary ways to answer the many
different sensory challenges posed by specific environments and
particular tasks. Understanding how sensory information is used by
birds has important applications in conservation, such as providing
vital insights into why birds are prone to collisions with
structures like power lines and wind turbines, and why so many
diving birds become entrapped in nets. A sensory ecology approach
suggests how these problems can be mitigated. The Sensory Ecology
of Birds ranges widely across species, environments, and behaviours
to present a synthesis that challenges previous assumptions about
the information that controls the behaviour of birds. A bird may
use a wide range and combination of sensory information that comes
from sight, hearing, smell, mechanoreception, taste, and
magnetoreception. It may also include specific refinements of
senses, such as echolocation and remote touch from the bill. The
book recognises that there are many complex and subtle trade-offs
and complementarities of information between different types of
sensory information. This accessible text will be of interest to a
wide ornithological readership, from undergraduates to researchers
as well as a broader audience of behavioural ecologists and
evolutionary biologists.
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