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Bird census techniques

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam ; London : Academic, [2000]Edition: 2nd ed. / Colin J. Bibby ... [et al.]Description: xvi, 302 p. : ill., figs., tabs., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780120958313
  • 9780120958313
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Purpose and design in counting birds -- Census errors -- Territory mapping methods -- Line transects -- Point counts and point transects -- Relative measures for bird communities in habitats with high species richness -- Catching and marking -- Counting individual species -- counting colonial nesting, flocking and migrating birds -- Distribution studies -- Description and measurement of bird habitat
Summary: This work provides a guide to the various census techniques and to the opportunities and pitfalls which each entails. The common methods are described in detail and illustrated with diagrams showing examples of theoretical census studies.
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General General ATU Dublin Road General Shelves 598.0287 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available J129967

Previous ed.: 1992

Published in collaboration with Ecoscope Applied Ecologists, British Trust for Ornithology, RSPB, BirdLife International

Includes bibliographical references and index

Purpose and design in counting birds -- Census errors -- Territory mapping methods -- Line transects -- Point counts and point transects -- Relative measures for bird communities in habitats with high species richness -- Catching and marking -- Counting individual species -- counting colonial nesting, flocking and migrating birds -- Distribution studies -- Description and measurement of bird habitat

This work provides a guide to the various census techniques and to the opportunities and pitfalls which each entails. The common methods are described in detail and illustrated with diagrams showing examples of theoretical census studies.

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