The Migration Ecology of Birds (Hardcover, 2)

1. Introduction 2. Methodology

Part 1. The Migratory Process 3. Migratory flight 4. Weather effects and other aspects 5. Fueling the flights 6. Incredible journeys 7. Raptors and other soaring birds 8. Migration speed, stopovers and duration of journeys 9. Finding the way 10. Vagrancy

Part 2. The timing and control of migration 11. Annual cycles 12. Control mechanisms

Part 3. Large scale movement patterns 13. Geographical patterns 14. Seasonal occupation of breeding areas 15. Sex and age differences in migration 16. Variations on a migratory theme 17. Site fidelity and dispersal 18. Irruptive migrations: boreal seed-eaters 19. Irruptive migrations: owls, raptors and waterfowl

Part 4. Evolution of movement patterns 20. Evolutionary aspects 21. Recent changes in bird migrations 22. Biogeographical legacies 23. Distribution patterns

Part 5. Migration systems and population limitation 24. The Palearctic-Afrotropical Migration system 25. The Nearctic-Neotropical migration system 26. Population limitation ? breeding and wintering areas 27. Population limitation ? conditions on stopover 28. Mass mortality of migrants