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
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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
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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
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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 |