Book
Silence of the songbirds : how we are losing the world's songbirds and what we can do to save them
Record details
- ISBN: 9780002007283
- ISBN: 0002007282
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Physical Description:
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255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Paradise not yet lost: the tanagers and warblers of Gamboa, Panama -- 2. Canaries in the mine : songbirds and our ecosystem -- 3. The breeding bird survey: taking a census of migrating birds -- 4. Birds in the rainforest: the effects of deforestation and fragmentation -- 5. Coffee with a conscience: preserving bird habitats, one cup of coffee at a time -- 6. Falling from the sky: the ongoing scourge of pesticides -- 7. Bright lights, big danger: small-town and big-city hazards to migrating songbirds -- 8. Stalking the songbirds: cowbirds, cats, and other predators -- 9. Living on the edge: birds need not just homes but neighbourhoods -- Epilogue: answering the cry of the songbirds |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Songbirds -- America Rare birds -- America Endangered species -- America Birds -- Habitat Endangered species -- Breeding Songbirds Endangered species |
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Summary:
Migratory songbirds are disappearing at an alarming rate. By some estimates we have already lost half the songbirds that filled the skies 40 years ago. The author demonstrates why this decline should concern us all. She examines the most threatening factors to these animals: pesticides, the destruction of vital habitat, coffee plantations, bright lights and the structures of our cities and global warming.
