The Dippers (Hardcover)

Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Dippers, their Origins and Taxonomy, Distribution and Status 2 Riverside Life: Morphological and Physiological Adaptations to a Special Environment 3 Factors Influencing the Distribution and Breeding Abundance of Dippers 4 Food and Feeding 5 Winter and Early Spring Behaviour 6 The Breeding Season 7 The Post-Breeding Phase 8 Population Dynamics of Dippers 9 Relationships Between Dippers and Other Species 10 The Impact of Humans on Dippers Appendices: 1 List of Latin names 2 Quadratic regressions relating the probability of recapturing Dippers after fledgling in relation to time of hatching References Index