Bird Watch: A Survey of Planet Earth's Changing Ecosystems

by Jonathan Elphick and Martin Walters

From the tufted puffin in the Pacific Northwest to the hook-billed hermit in the Brazilian rainforest, birds suffer from the effects of climate change in every corner of the globe. Scientists have found declines of up to 90 percent in some troubled bird populations and unprecedented reproductive failure in others. The most recent studies suggest dire prospects: 1,227 avian species are threatened with extinction and an additional 838 near-threatened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226872262
• ISBN13: 9780226872261
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 11.3"