Feral PigeonsOxford University Press, 1995 - 320 pagini Feral pigeons are among the most familiar and abundant birds in the world, urban creatures living in close association with humans yet possessing the characteristics of highly adapted wild birds. Although domesticated pigeons have long been a major model for laboratory research, feral pigeons are rarely the subject of study. This definitive monograph focuses on the population, biology, and behavioral ecology of feral pigeons, including a thorough listing of primary references of U.S. and European scholarly literature. Professional and amateur ornithologists, pigeon breeders, and students will find this an invaluable and fascinating study of birds whose ancestry includes familiar breeds of domesticated birds. |
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Origin and evolution of feral pigeons | 3 |
Size shape and genetic variation in feral pigeons | 17 |
Breeding seasons in feral pigeons | 45 |
Mate choice and pairbonding | 56 |
Nestsites and nestbuilding | 69 |
Eggs | 76 |
Incubation hatching and cropmilk | 96 |
The brood reduction strategy | 102 |
Flight | 174 |
Social behavior | 189 |
Pigeon colonies | 201 |
Orientation and navigation | 207 |
Reproductive success and mortality | 215 |
Abundance and density | 227 |
Heavy metals and other pollutants | 239 |
Aspects of the biotic environment | 248 |
nestlings | 111 |
fledglings | 126 |
Diet | 135 |
Plumage polymorphism | 147 |
Feather maintenance and the molt | 167 |
Control of pigeon populations | 257 |
People and pigeons | 269 |
References | 281 |
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adults albumen alleles Angal't average behavior Blotzheim Blotzheim and Bauer blue bar body weight Bratislava breeding Brno brood reduction Burley cent Chapter clutches colonies color and pattern Columba Columba livia crop cropmilk diet domestic pigeons Dorzhiev egglaying eggs European ferals feathers feeding females feral pigeons Flamborough Head fledging flight flocks foraging frequencies genetic Glutz von Blotzheim Goodwin hatching homing pigeons humans increase incubation individuals Janda Janiga Janiga and Kocian Johnston and Johnson juveniles Kansas Kotov length livia loft males mate choice melanic molt mortality Murton and Westwood nest nestlings nestsites Obukhova and Kreslavskii occur pairs parents phenotypes pigeon populations Pikula plumage plumage color polymorphism Prague predators protein relative reproductive Rock Doves roosting samples season second eggs selection sources species squabs Stock Doves synanthropic T-pattern Table temperature tend thermoregulation tion transferrin Ulan Ude urban variables variation wild Rock Pigeons wing winter yolk young
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