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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David Lack; Andrew Lack; Christopher M Perrins |
ISBN: | 9781911604365 1911604368 |
OCLC Number: | 1009214456 |
Notes: | Edition statement from cover. "First published 1956 by Methuen & Co Ltd"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 274 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / by Professor Christopher Perrins -- Note on this edition -- Introduction -- The tower -- Settling in, and the fight for homes -- Courtship -- The nest -- Laying and incubation -- The naked nestling -- The feathered nestling -- Feeding habits -- Flight -- Swifts at night -- Winter sleep -- Weather movements -- Migration -- The races of swifts -- The birth-rate -- Death and its causes -- The meaning of adaptation -- Swifts in a tower : sixty-two years on / by Dr Andrew Lack. |
Responsibility: | Dr David Lack ; with a new chapter by Dr Andrew Lack ; foreword by Professor Chris Perrins. |
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