By Adam Watson, Robert Moss
ISBN-10: 0007405227
ISBN-13: 9780007405220
With below twenty species all over the world and merely 4 British and Irish species, the grouse is strangely recognized. Its habitats are assorted and comparatively distant --" starting from deep forests, via open moorland, to Scotland--™s optimum peaks.
--?Grouse: The ordinary historical past of British and Irish Species--™ covers 4 of the main emblematic species of our upland areas. jointly they've got the main interesting lifestyles histories of any fowl staff, separately they've got their very own tales to inform: the ptarmigan is a resident of our maximum mountain parts, the black grouse is known for its amazing mating monitors, the capercaillie is certainly one of our biggest birds and the pink grouse, while no-longer one of many few British endemics, is without doubt one of the such a lot seriously researched species. All 4 face comparable difficulties, together with habitat loss, predators, pests, affliction and foodstuff scarcity. this can be compounded by means of problems with controlled animal populations and controversy surrounding the economic worthy of grouse.
This quantity within the New Naturalist sequence, written via of the world's major grouse experts, bargains a desirable perception into the normal historical past and biology of those birds, together with points in their behaviour, the ancient relevance in their names, the explanations in the back of inhabitants fluctuations and foreign conservation efforts.
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