The peregrine falcon /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : San Diego, CA :
T & A D Poyser ; Academic Press,
1993.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Peregrine and man
- Before the record began
- Age of falconry
- Age of game preserving
- Pigeon fanciers
- Egg collectors
- Falconers today
- Ornithologists
- Man the dominant animal
- Peregrine's country
- Coast
- Inland
- Other regions of the world
- Population trends in Britain
- Practical problems of counting peregrines
- Establishing a base-line of population size
- Short-term behaviour of population
- Earlier population trends
- War-time decline
- Pesticide crash
- Recovery and increase
- Distribution and numbers in Britain
- South-east England
- South-west England
- South Wales
- North Wales
- Eastern England
- Midlands and Lancashire lowlands
- Pennines
- Lakeland
- Cheviots
- Isle of man
- Southern Scotland
- Scottish highlands and islands
- Southern and eastern highlands
- Northern and western highlands
- Ireland
- Food and feeding habits
- General aspects of prey selection
- Food in the breeding season
- Food outside the breeding season
- Unusual prey
- Food requirements
- Predation level and impact
- Hunting techniques and performance.
- (cont) Nesting habitat
- Nest site
- Nesting cliff
- Use of alternative sites and cliffs
- Adaptation to other kinds of nesting place
- Breeding cycle: pairing and courtship
- Pair-bond in winter
- Pre-laying period
- Pairing
- Courtship, hunting and flight display
- Courtship feeding
- Ledge displays
- Copulation
- Threat
- Variation in courtship behaviour
- Dominance relations within the pair
- Bigamy
- Territorial and defence aggression
- Reversed sexual size dimorphism
- Breeding cycle: laying to fledging
- Egg stage
- Young stage
- Brood size
- Breeding performance
- Movements and migration
- Outside Britain
- Within Britain
- Peregrine ringing returns affecting Britain and Ireland
- Breeding density and territory
- Geographical differences in breeding density
- Territorial behaviour and its influence on breeding density
- Breeding density and food supply
- Territorial behaviour and food supply
- Population dynamics and regulation
- Annual balance-sheet in numbers
- Pre-1956 population
- Post-1956 population.
- (cont) Limitations on breeding populations
- Population stability and food supply
- Non-breeding element of population
- Status of non-breeding peregrines
- Sex ratio
- Concluding thoughts on population dynamics
- Ecological relationships with other birds
- Other predators
- Prey species
- Pesticide story
- How it began
- How it happened
- Turning of the tide
- Mystery resolved
- Pattern of recovery
- Marine pollution
- Other countries
- Some reflections
- Other enemies
- Mammal predators
- Parasites and disease
- Disease in the peregrine
- Appearance, form and geographical variation
- Nominate form
- Other races
- Conservation and the future
- Plant species in the text
- Bird species in the text
- Vertebrate non-avian species in the text
- Calls of the peregrine
- Some English names of the peregrine.