Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The shelduck
- 3 Gregariousness: the winter flock
- 4 Territories
- 5 Prospecting for nest sites
- 6 Laying and incubation
- 7 Care of the young
- 8 Duckling survival
- 9 Recruitment and the non-territorial flock
- 10 The limitation of shelduck populations
- References
- Subject index
- Author index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The shelduck
- 3 Gregariousness: the winter flock
- 4 Territories
- 5 Prospecting for nest sites
- 6 Laying and incubation
- 7 Care of the young
- 8 Duckling survival
- 9 Recruitment and the non-territorial flock
- 10 The limitation of shelduck populations
- References
- Subject index
- Author index
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- The ShelduckA Study in Behavioural Ecology, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982