Saving Migrant Birds: Developing Strategies for the Future

by John Faaborg

In the 1980s, numerous scientific surveys documented both declining bird populations, especially among Neotropical songbirds that winter in the tropics, and the loss of tropical rain forest habitat. Drawing the seemingly obvious conclusion, scientists and environmental activists linked songbird declines to loss of tropical habitats and alerted the world to an impending ecological catastrophe. Their warnings led to the establishment of the Neotropical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725485
• ISBN13: 9780292725485
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"