V 14 No.4 - The Scottish Ornithologists' Club
V 14 No.4 - The Scottish Ornithologists' Club
V 14 No.4 - The Scottish Ornithologists' Club
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November publication<br />
<strong>The</strong>SKUAS<br />
by Robert W. Furness<br />
<strong>The</strong> full classification of skuas is still debated but on current knowledge and<br />
his own studies the author, Or Furness, of the Applied Ornithology Unit,<br />
Glasgow University, favours six species and five subspecies.<br />
All of the species are treated comparatively under the following chapter titles:<br />
Early history and classification; Distributions and populations; Migration patterns,<br />
Reversed sexual size dimorphism; Behaviour; Food and feeding;<br />
Kleptoparasitism; Plumage polymorphism; Breeding systems and social<br />
organisation; Breeding -laying to hatching; Breeding - hatching to fledging;<br />
Population dynamics; Polutants; Skuas and agriculture; Skuas and conservation.<br />
This erudite and readable summary of an impressive group of birds is<br />
supported by 100 maps and diagrams, 30 photographs and 35 typically<br />
evocative drawings by John Busby.<br />
368 pages, £18.00 net<br />
T & AD POYSER
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