LEADER 04680nam 22007451 450 001 9910464914503321 005 20150109172459.0 010 $a1-4725-9711-7 010 $a1-4081-3785-2 010 $a1-282-98652-X 010 $a9786612986529 010 $a1-4081-3784-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472597113 035 $a(CKB)3390000000007815 035 $a(EBL)738786 035 $a(OCoLC)742333593 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000671280 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11931683 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000671280 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10625061 035 $a(PQKB)10689794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC738786 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL738786 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10486602 035 $a(OCoLC)1197076478 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bslw09310287 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000007815 100 $a20150116d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGreat Auk Islands $ea field biologist in the Arctic /$fby Tim Birkhead ; illustrated by David Quinn 210 1$aLondon :$cT & A.D. Poyser,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 225 0 $aPoyser monographs 300 $aFirst published in 1993 by T & AD Poyser Ltd. 311 $a1-4081-3786-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Horizon opening; Chapter 2 Margins of the universe; Chapter 3 Nameless days; Chapter 4 The lives of Great Auks; Chapter 5 Labrador; Chapter 6 Skouts, SkuttOcks and Strangers; Chapter 7 Between species in Labrador; Chapter 8 The fertile sea; Chapter 9 Changes; Appendix 1: List of common and systematic names; Appendix 2: Notes on the local seabird names used in Labrador; References; Index 330 $a"A book for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the world's last great wildernesses: a place of outstanding beauty, history and extraordinary wildlife in which seabirds form an important component of a rich, marine environment. Like many other remote regions, it is under threat from human activities, but to protect it we need to understand it. That understanding can come only through scientific research and the central threat of this book is to examine how such research is actually done. It describes the business of conducting biological studies on seabirds in remote parts of eastern Canada. Several themes are engagingly interwoven: the sheer beauty of the Arctic environment, the intriguing biology of its wildlife, and the discovery and exploitation of enormous seabird colonies, including the destruction of the Great Auk. Tim Birkhead describes in personal detail the different facets of research and brings to life both the difficulties and the excitement of working in the Arctic. What is it like setting up a camp for four months on a remote and uninhabited island not far from the North Pole? How does it feel to commute daily by inflatable boat amidst icebergs to study-areas located on towering cliffs, set between ice-blue glaciers? What do you do when a Polar bear decides that you have invaded its Arctic home? Why are the seabird colonies in the high Arctic so enormous? What do we know about lifestyle of the extinct Great Auk? In 1992 Canada's legendary cod fishery was finally destroyed - what are the consequences of this for other wildlife? These are just a few of the questions dealt with in this book. Our future as a species depends upon science and the understanding it brings of the world we live in. The work of scientists often appears obscure, but in this book, Tim Birkhead has used his experience of seven summers in the Arctic to write an accessible and straightforward account of how research is actually done in the field. 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