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Title

Partnerships in birds : the study of monogamy / edited by Jeffrey M. Black ; drawings by Mark Hulme.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Black, Jeffrey M.

Description

xi, 420 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Some birds mate for life, while others have many partners. Why? In this book, fourteen classic studies are brought together to compare different partnership patterns from ecological and evolutionary perspectives. The subjects have been chosen to include the same species living in different habitats (Sparrowhawks) and at different population densities (Great Tits). There are comparisons between closely related species (Mute Swans and Bewick's Swans; Florida Scrub Jays and Pinyon Jays).
• The studies span the globe and the behavioural gradient, from Iceland's strictly monogamous Whooper Swans to Australia's sexually promiscuous Splendid Fairy-wrens. In all cases, sexual and social relationships strongly influence a bird's survival and breeding success. Recent research has revealed an astonishing diversity in avian male-female relationships. Social monogamy and sexual fidelity are not necessarily the same thing, and birds have been shown to adopt many variations on this theme.

Series Statement

Oxford ornithology series ; 6

Uniform Title

Oxford ornithology series ; 6.

Subjects

• Sexual selection in animals
• Birds > Behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: pair bonds and partnerships / Jeffrey M. Black -- 2. Battles of the sexes and origins of monogamy / Patricia Adair Gowaty -- 3. The model family / Douglas W. Mock, P. L. Schwagmeyer and Geoffrey A. Parker -- 4. Long-term monogamy in a river specialist - the Blue Duck / Murray Williams and Frank McKinney -- 5. Do Barnacle Geese benefit from lifelong monogamy? / Jeffrey M. Black, Sharmila Choudhury and Myrfyn Owen -- 6. Mate fidelity in swans: an interspecific comparison / Eileen C. Rees, Pia Lievesley, Richard A. Pettifor and Christopher Perrins -- 7. Breeding partnerships of two New World jays / John M. Marzluff, Glen F. Woolfenden, John W. Fitzpatrick and Russell P. Balda -- 8. Partnerships in promiscuous Splendid Fairy-wrens / Eleanor Russell and Ian Rowley -- 9. Divorce in the European blackbird: seeking greener pastures? / Andre Desrochers and Robert D. Magrath --
• 10. Mate fidelity and divorce in ptarmigan: polygyny avoidance on the tundra / Susan Hannon and Kathy Martin -- 11. Causes and consequences of long-term partnerships in Cassin's Auklets / William L. Sydeman, Peter Pyle, Steven D. Emslie and Elizabeth B. McLaren -- 12. Monogamy in a long-lived seabird: the Short-tailed Shearwater / Ron Wooller and Stuart Bradley -- 13. Between- and within-population variation in mate fidelity in the Great Tit / Andre A. Dhondt, Frank Adriaensen and Werner Plompen -- 14. Monogamy in the Sparrowhawk / I. Newton and I. Wyllie -- 15. Mate fidelity in penguins / Tony D. Williams -- 16. Causes and consequences of mate fidelity in Red-billed Gulls / James A. Mills, John W. Yarrell and Deborah A. Mills -- 17. Dispersal, demography, and the persistence of partnerships in Indigo Buntings / Robert B. Payne and Laura L. Payne -- 18. Monogamy and sperm competition in birds / T. R. Birkhead and A. P. Moller --
• 19. Mate fidelity and divorce in monogamous birds / Bruno J. Ens, Sharmila Choudhury and Jeffrey M. Black.

ISBN

• 0198548613 (pbk)
• 0198548605 (hbk)

LCCN

95041167

OCLC

• 33244738
• ocm33244738

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