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9780852639559

The Dipper

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  • ISBN13:

    9780852639559

  • ISBN10:

    0852639554

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: Shire Publications

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Summary

Dippers are the world's only truly aquatic passerine birds, and their remarkable swimming and diving abilities have long attracted the interest of research biologists on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as elsewhere in Europe and Japan. For the birdwatcher and naturalist, the behavioural abilities of these attractive birds are only added to by the beauty of their preferred habitat, the fast-flowing streams of the wild uplands. The magic of the running water, moss-covered rocky banks, pools, riffles, cascades and waterfalls lend a majestic backdrop to the busy activity of Dippers as they bob and blink on an exposed rock before diving underwater to forage for caddis and mayfly nymphs amongst the submerged stones of the stream bed. The chance to watch Dippers is always worth the walk into such places. These are also habitats under pressure. Only in clean, base-rich waters can the Dipper's insect prey thrive. Current changes in land use threaten these conditions. Conifer plantations promote acidic run-off and contamination by the common pesticides reduces the number of suitable waterways each year. The intrinsic value of Dippers is now supplemented by their role as indicators of the health of their upland habitats.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Riverside Life: Morphological and Physiological
Adaptations to a Special Environment
Factors Influencing the Distribution and Breeding Abundance of Dippers
Food and Feeding
Winter and Early Spring Behaviour
The Breeding Season
The Post-Breeding Phase
Population Dynamics of Dippers
Relationships Between Dippers and Other Species: Competitors, Predators and Parasites
The Impact of Humans on Dippers
Appendices: List of Latin Names
Quadratic regressions relating the probability of recapturing
Dippers after fledgling in relation to time of hatching
References
Index
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