Overview

People have been long-fascinated with birds, and their scientific study has been central to advances in evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, population dynamics, and community ecology. Research questions in these fields have been driven in part by innovations in technology. Ornithologists even 20 years ago could scarcely imagine the detail and precision with which we can now monitor bird populations on a global scale, whether through digital tools like eBird, indirectly through remote sensing satellites, or at closer range via drones.Highlighting these advances, New Perspectives in Ornithology brings together leading and rising professionals across ornithology, spanning behavior and ecology to genomics and conservation. Organized thematically into five sections - ecology, evolution, behavior, citizen science, and conservation - the volume reflects the major swaths of modern ornithology. Its contributions offer diverse perspectives on some of the most pressing challenges facing birds today, including climate change, habitat loss, and effects of urbanization. New Perspectives in Ornithology also showcases extraordinary and inspiring new insights into how birds work, their amazing colors and songs, movements around the globe, and their deep-time evolution.Approachable and conversational in style, yet scientifically rigorous, this volume is essential reading for graduate students, early career researchers, and senior academics, and anyone else who will need to be aware of key approaches and conceptual domains in ornithology today.

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Author:   Scott V. Edwards (Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University) ,  J. Michael Reed (Professor of Biology, Professor of Biology, Tufts University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780197787670

ISBN 10:   0197787673
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   01 March 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Ecology 2. Commentary 3. Uncovering Factors Limiting Populations of Migratory Birds across the Annual Cycle 4. The Impact of Movement Ecology on Ornithology 5. Bird Invasions in a Humanizing World Evolution 6. Commentary 7. Advances in the Avian Tree of life and Biogeography in the 21st Century 8. The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds 9. Speciation and Adaptation in Birds 10. Avian Diversity and Patterns of Diversification in South America 11. Natural History Collections for 21st Century Ornithology Behavior 12. Commentary 13. Social Behaviour in Birds 14. Birdsong: Established truths, advances, and an expanded view 15. New Frontiers in Avian Color Research 16. Bird Migration in the Age of Rapid Technological Advance and Global Change Databases & Citizen Science 17. Commentary 18. Recent Advances in Avian Occurrence and Movement Databases 19. Participatory Science in the Field of Ornithology 20. Expanding the Scope of Ornithology by Engaging Diverse Communities Conservation & Management 21. Commentary 22. Bird Conservation Geography 23. Bird Conservation in the Neotropics: Gaps and challenges in the face of Anthropocene threats 24. The Introduction, Management and Utilization of Tropically Adapted Chickens in Sub-Saharan Africa 25. Trends in Bird Conservation in Africa 26. Does Climate Change Alter How We Should Do Bird Conservation

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Scott V. Edwards is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Curator of Ornithology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Prof. Edwards is an evolutionary biologist, with diverse interests in the evolution of birds and how they respond to a changing planet. Edwards has served as President of the Society for the Study of Evolution and other scientific societies and serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and the Adventure Cycling Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. J. Michael Reed is a Professor of Biology at Tufts University. People in Prof. Reed's lab work on a variety of problems related to the distribution and persistence of species on human-altered landscapes, mostly with birds. Reed is particularly interested in threatened and endangered species on islands, birds in coupled human-natural ecosystems such as working forests and wetlands, and in the extinction risk of small, isolated populations. He received his PhD from North Carolina State University in 1988, working on extinction risk of an endangered bird species. His recent research focuses on birds in Maine forests and in the Mojave Desert.

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