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Their fate is our fate : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world

text Their fate is our fate : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world

Summary

Argues that birds around the world detect dangers in the environment long before humans do, and claims that more attention should be paid to the scientific observation of birds and their behaviors to help identify threats to the health of the planet.

Contents
Searching for puffins : an introduction -- Distant relatives -- Chick embryos and other developing life forms -- Sentinel chickens -- Falling crows -- Ticks, sheep, grouse and the glorious twelfth -- Flu flies --Bird flu : from Hong Kong to Qingha... Read more
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Description
247 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher
Workman Pub Co 2013

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 598 DOH in Adult Non-fiction Available

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