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Book Reviews

Bennett P.M. & Owens I.P.F.: Evolutionary Ecology of Birds: Life Histories, Mating Systems, and Extinctions. (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Reviewed by: B. Stutchbury in Animal Behaviour 65:1061-1062.

Bildstein K.L.: White Ibis: Wetland Wanderer. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Nature Books, 1993. ISBN 1560982233. 242 pp.)

Reviewed by: P.C. Frederick in Florida Field Naturalist 22:55-56.

Deeming D.C. Avian Incubation: Behavior, Environment, and Evolution. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press: 2002)

Reviewed by: K.W. Sockman in Condor 105:164-166.

Dell'Omo G. (Ed.): Behavioural Ecotoxicology. (NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2002)

Reviewed by: P.C. Frederick in Behavioural Processes 60:241–242.

Hancock J.A., Kushan J.A., Kahl M.P.: Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World. (Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0123227305. 385 pp.)

Reviewed by: P.C. Frederick in The Auk 110:963-964.

Krimsky S.: Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis. (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2002 ISBN 0801872529)

Reviewed by: S.J. Schoech in Conservation Biology 15(1):298-300.

Mayr E. & Diamond J.: The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology and Biogeography. (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Reviewed by: T. Price in American Scientist (online), Sept-Oct 2002.

Murton R.K. & Westwood N.J.: Avian Breeding Cycles. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. 594 pp.)

Reviewed by: J. Wingfield in General and Comparative Endocrinology 38:386-387.

Nelson R.J., Demas G.E., Klein S.L., Kriegsfeld L.J.: Seasonal Patterns of Stress, Immune Function, and Disease. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Reviewed by: L.M. Romero in Animal Behaviour 65:1061-1062.

Nettleship D.N. & Duffy D.C.: The Double-Crested Cormorant: Biology, Conservation, and Management. (Colonial Waterbirds 18 Special Publication. 256 pp.)

Reviewed by: P.C. Frederick in Wilson Bulletin 109(2):367-368.

Rhodes R.: John James Audubon: The Making of an American. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 0375414126)

Reviewed by: P.L. Farber in American Scientist (online), Jan-Feb 2005.

Safina C.: Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival. (New York: Henry Holt, 2002. ISBN 0805062289; Owl Books Reprint, 2003. ISBN 0805062297)

Reviewed by: D. Blockstein in American Scientist (online), Jul-Aug 2002.

Sharp P.J. (Ed.): Avian Endocrinology. (Bristol, UK: Journal of Endocrinology, Ltd., 1993. ISBN 1-89809-901-4)

Reviewed by: K.J. Armour in Gen. Comp. Endocrinology 94:157; and L.A. Meserve: Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 6(6):221-222.

Shuster S.M. & Wade M.J.: Mating Systems and Strategies: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003)

Reviewed by: A. Badyaev in Ecology 85(5):1472-1474.

Skutch A.F. & Gardner D.: Life of the Flycatcher. (Vol 3, Animal Natural History Series. University of Oklahoma Press: 1997 ISBN 0806129190)

Reviewed by: S.J. Schoech in Quarterly Review of Biology 73:517.

Souder W.: Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America. (North Point Press, 2004. ISBN 0865476713)

Reviewed by: P.L. Farber in American Scientist (online), Jan-Feb 2005.

Wada M., Ishii S., Scanes C.G. (Eds.): Endocrinology of Birds: Molecular to Behavioral. (Tokyo: Scientific Societies Press, 1990. ISBN 3-540-52351-0)

Reviewed by: L.A. Meserve in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 3(5):191.

Wallen K. & Schneider J.E. (Eds.): Reproduction in Context: Social and Environmental Influences on Reproductive Physiology and Behavior. (Bradford Books, 1999. ISBN 0262232049)

Reviewed by: S.J. Schoech in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 11:441-443.

West-Eberhard M.J.: Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. (NY: Oxford University Press, 2003)

Reviewed by: A.V. Badyaev in Am J of Physical Anthropology.



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