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Zoology, 5/e
Stephen A. Miller, College of the Ozarks
John B. Harley, Eastern Kentucky University

Birds: Feathers, Flight, and Endothermy

Suggested Readings

Chapter 21 Selected Readings


BOOKS

Aidley, D.J., ed. 1980. Animal Migration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Baker, R. 1984. Bird Navigation: The Solution of a Mystery? New York: Holmes ; Meier Publishers.

______, ed.1981. The Mystery of Migration. Minneapolis: Viking Press.

Faaborg, J. 1988. Ornithology: An Ecological Approach. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Feduccia, A. 1980. The Age of Birds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Gill, F.B. 1994. Ornithology. 2nd ed. New York: W.H. Freeman.

Halstead, L.B. 1968. The Pattern of Vertebrate Evolution. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.

King, F.W. and Behler, J. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Lovtrup, S. 1977 The Phylogeny of Vertebrata. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Peterson, R.T. 1980. Field Guide to the Birds. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Pough, F.H., Janis, C.M., and Heiser, J.B. 1999. Vertebrate Life. 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Romer, A.S. and Parsons, T.S. 1986. The Vertebrate Body. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing.

Ruppell, G. 1975. Bird Flight. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Stahl, B.J. 1974. Vertebrate History: Problems in Evolution. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Terres, J.K. 1980. The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. New York.: Alfred A. Knopf.

Walker, W.F. and Walker, S.T. 1997. Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Sounders College Publishing.

Welty, J.C. 1988. The Life of Birds. 4th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.


ARTICLES

Birkeland, C. 1986. Mechanisms of sperm competition in birds. American Scientist 84(3): 254-62.

Borgia, G. 1995. Why do bowerbirds build bowers? American Scientist 83(6): 542-47.

Calder, W.A. III. 1978. The Kiwi. Scientific American July.

Cracraft, J. 1988. Early evolution of birds. Nature, 335: 630-32.

Daves, N.B. and Brooke, M. 1991. Coevolution of the cuckoo and its host. Scientific American, January.

Deaming, C. and Ferguson, F. 1989. In the heat of the nest. New Scientist 121: 33-38.

Gould, J.L. 1980. The case for magnetic sensitivity in birds and bees (such as it is). American Scientist 68: 256-67.

Harvey, P.H. and Partridge, L. 1988. Of cuckoo clocks and cowbirds. Nature 335: 630-32.

Heinrich, B. and Marzluff, J. 1995. Why ravens share. American Scientist 83(4): 342-49.

Marshall, L.G. 1994. The terror birds of South America. Scientific American February.

Mock, D.W., Drummond, H., and Stinson, H. 1990. Avian siblicide. American Scientist 78(5): 438-49.

Padian, K. and Chiappe, M. 1998. The origins of birds and their flight. Scientific American February.

Schoech, S.J. 1998. Physiology of helping in Florida scrub-jays. American Scientist 86(1): 70-77.

Wellnhofer, P. 1990. Archaeopteryx. Scientific American May.

West, M.J. and King, A.P. 1990. Mozart's starling. American Scientist 78(2): 106-14.