Essays

List of Essays

A
Adaptations for Flight	Average Clutch Size
American Coots	Avian Invaders
Anting	Avian Sense of Smell
B
Bathing and Dusting	Bird Voices
Bills	Birds and the Law
Bird Badges	Birds, DNA, and Evolutionary
Bird Biology and the Arts	..... Convergence
Bird Communities and ..... Competition	Blue List Breeding Season
Bird Guilds	Brood Parasitism
Bird Milk	Brood Patches
C
Coevolution	Conservation of Raptors
Coloniality	Cooperative Breeding
Color of Birds	Copulation
Color of Eggs	Courtship Feeding
Commensal Feeding	Cowbirds
Communal Roosting	Creches
Conservation of Kirtland's ..... Warbler
D
Dabblers vs. Divers	Disease and Parasitism
DDT and Birds	Distraction Displays
Decline of Eastern ..... Songbirds	DNA and Passerine Classification Dominance Hierarchies
Determining Diets	Drinking
Diet and Nutrition	Duck Displays
E
Eating Feathers	European Starlings
Eggs and Their Evolution	Eye Color and Development
Empty Shells
F
Feathered Nests	Finding Hidden Caches
Feeding Birds	Flamingo Feeding
Feet	Flock Defense
Feral Birds	Flying in Vee Formation
G
Great Plains Hybrids	Gulls Are Attracted to Their
Gull Development	..... Predators
H
Habitat Selection	Hovering Flight
Hatching Asynchrony and ..... Brood Reduction	How Do We Find Out About ..... Bird Biology?
Hawk-Eyed	How Long Can Birds Live?
Head Scratching	How High & Fast Do Birds Fly?
Helping to Conserve Birds - .... Local Level	How Owls Hunt in the Dark Hummingbird Foraging Bouts
Helping to Conserve Birds - ..... National Level	Hummingbirds, Nectar, and ..... Water
Hoarding Food	Hybridization
I-L
Incubation Time	Irruptions
Incubation: Heating Eggs	Island Biogeography
Interspecific Territoriality
M
MacArthur's Warblers	Migration
Masterbuilders	Mixed-Species Flocking
Metabolism	Mobbing
Metallic Poisons	Molting
Mice and Ground-nesting ..... Birds	Monogamy
N
Natural Selection	Nest Materials
Navigation and Orientation	Nest Sanitation
Nest Lining	Nonvocal Sounds
O
Optimally Foraging Hummers
P
Parasitic Swallows	Piracy
Parasitized Ducks	Plume Trade
Parental Care	Polyandry
Parent-Chick Recognition in ..... Colonial Nesters	Polyandry in Spotted Sandpipers Polygyny
Passenger Pigeon	Population Dynamics
Passerines and Songbirds	Precocial and Altricial Young
Pellets	Promiscuity
Q
Quail Eggs and Clover
R
Range Expansion	Redwing Coverable Badges
Raptor Hunting
S
Sandpipers, Social Systems, and Territoriality	Skimming Sleeping Sentries
Sexual Selection	Soaring
Shorebird Communication	Spacing of Wintering Shorebirds
Shorebird Feeding	Species and Speciation
Shorebird Migration	Spread-wing Postures
Sibling Species	S uperspecies
Site Tenacity	Swimming
Size and Sex in Raptors
T
Taxonomy and Nomenclature	Thin as a Rail
Temperature Regulation and ..... Behavior	Tool Using Transporting Young
Territoriality
U
Urban Birds
V
Variation in Clutch Sizes	Vocal Development
Visual Displays	Vocal Dialects
Vocal Copying	Vocal Functions
W-Z
Walking vs. Hopping	Wing Shapes and Flight
Who Incubates?	Wintering and Conservation