Birds and flowers An intimate 50 million year relationship
Book - 2024
The first book that deals with bird pollination in all of its diversity. Looks beyond the iconic hummingbirds, sunbirds and honeyeaters, to assess the real breadth and significance of avian involvement with flowers.
Saved in:
- Subjects
- Published
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London :
Pelagic Publishing
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- viii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographial references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781784274511
9781784274528
9781784274535
- Introduction: Encounters with birds and flowers
- 1. Origins of a partnership
- 2. Surprising variety
- 3. Keeping it in the family
- 4. A flower's point of view
- 5. In the eye of the beholder
- 6. Goods and services
- 7. Misaligned interests
- 8. Senses and sensitivities
- 9. Codependent connections
- 10. Hitchhikers, drunks and killers
- 11. The limits to specialisation
- 12. Islands in the sea, islands in the sky
- 13. The curious case of Europe
- 14. 'After the Manner of Bees'
- 15. Feathers and fruits
- 16. Urban flowers for urban birds
- 17. Bad birds and feral flowers
- 18. What escapes the eye
- 19. The restoration of hope
- Species names
- Sources and further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Back Cover.