tailieunhanh - Biology of Marine Birds

Marine birds are equally at home on land, in the air, and in the water. While many organisms can go from land to water (amphibians, some reptiles, some insects), others generally live in only one medium during their lives. Marine birds switch from one to the other, often daily. Such flexibility requires unique physiological and morphological adaptations to the environment, a medium that has also exerted selective forces on the behavior, ecology, and demography of these birds. Amazingly, marine birds have adapted to essentially all environments on the earth, from those able to survive winters in Antarctica to those who can sit for days incubating their. | Biology MARINE BIRDS 2002 by CRC Press LLC COVER PHOTOGRAPHS Front Cover clockwise from top right Red-tailed Tropicbird . Schreiber Great Frigatebird . Schreiber Laysan Albatross Adult protecting young chick . and . Schreiber Back Cover top to bottom Shy albatrosses H. Weimerskirch White tern with fish in its bill . Schreiber Masked Booby adult with chick . and . Schreiber Jackass Penguin pair with young . and . Schreiber 2002 by CRC Press LLC Biology Marine BIRDS Edited by E. A. Schreiber Joanna Burger _CRC_ marine BIOlOGy SERIES Peter L. Lutz Editor 0 CRC PRESS Boca Raton London New York Washington . 2002 by CRC Press .

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