Table of Contents
1.     BEGIN THE COURSE HERE

2.     Table of Contents

3.     About the Course

4.     What is a Bird?

5.     What is a bird continued

6.     Flying animals

7.     Why take ornithology?

8.     Life lists

9.     What you need for birding

10.   Flight

11.   Flight adaptations

12.   More adaptations

13.   Arms

14.   Legs

15.   Nervous modifications

16.   Smell and taste

17.   Muscles

18.   Respiration

19.   Evolution

20.   Reptiles and birds

21.   Archeopteryx

22.   Evolution of flight

23.   Critical thinking

24.   Flightless birds

25.   Taxonomy and systematics

26.   Linnaeus

27.   Species

28.   Biological Species

29.   DNA Technology

30.   Subspecies

 

31.   Speciation

32.   Darwin's Finches

33.   Isolating Mechanism

34.   Zone of Secondary Contact

35.   How Does Taxonomy Help?

36.   Bird Behavior

37.   Innate Behaviors

38.   Other Behaviors

39.   Learning

40.   Personal Behavior

41.   Social Behavior

42.   Communication

43.   Territory

44.   Flocking

45.   Flocking Continued

46.   Feeding Flocks

47.   Courtship and Mating

48.   Visual Communication

49.   Vocal Displays

50.   Sexual Displays

51.   Evolution of Displays

52.   Vocalizations

53.   Song Research

54.   Variability in Song

55.   Playback Experiments

56.   Territory

57.   Territory Theory

58.   Nests

59.   Brood Parasites

 

60.   Types of Nests

61.   Cooperative Breeding

62.   Eggs

63.   More about eggs

64.   Clutches

65.   Clutch Sizes

66.   More Clutch Size

67.   Evolution of Clutch Size

68.   More clutch evolution

69.   Clutch Theories

70.   Trends in Clutch Size

71.   Optimum Clutches

72.   Incubation

73.   Incubation continued

74.   Breeding Seasons

75.   Ultimate Factors

76.   Proximate Factors

77.   Young

78.   Young continued

79.   Mating Systems

80.   Polyandry

81.   Promiscuousness

82.   Migration

83.   Migration Theories

84.   Why Migration?

85.   Orientation

86.   Studying Migration

87.   Physiology of Migration

88.   Nonmigrants

89.   Cold Adaptations

 

90.   Heat Adaptations

91.   Feathers

92.   Feather Types

93.   Molt

94.   Molt terminology

95.   Colors

96.   Functions of Color

97.   Color Polymorphism

98.   Color Functions

99.   Color Function Continued

100. Ecology

101. Extinction

102. Geographical Ecology

103. Population Ecology

104. North American Extinctions

105. The Next 50 Years

106. Pantropical Dilemma

107. Zoogeographical Realms

108. Island Ecology

109. Bird Colonizers 1

10. Island Equilibrium

111. Equilibrium Evidence

112. Data Against Equilibrium

113. Competition

114. Diversity

115. Competitive Exclusion

116. Habitat Utilization

117. Adding Species

118. History

119. Concluding Remarks

120. Equipment

121. Birding

122. Organizations