Their fate is our fate [electronic resource] : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world / Peter Doherty.
2013
QL699 .D64 2013eb
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Their fate is our fate [electronic resource] : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world / Peter Doherty.
Author
Doherty, P. C. (Peter C.)
ISBN
9781615191826 (electronic book)
9781615190911
9781615190911
Publication Details
New York : The Experiment, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (247 p.) : ill.
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QL699 .D64 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
598
Summary
In a time of unprecedented environmental change, we can look to birds for the earliest signs of the challenges we face'and how we can solve them Nobel Prize'winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty shows us how watching birds can be much more than a hobby. Our close relatives, birds act as an early warning system for the health of our world, calling our attention to the earliest effects of climate change, emerging disease, and a host of other global challenges to our well-being. A call for 'citizen science,' Their Fate Is Our Fate proves that we don't need formal scientific training to make a difference. With nothing more than a willingness to closely observe the birds that are all around us, we can discover the ways that human activity is adversely affecting the planet'and how we can reverse course.
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"An earlier version of this book was originally published by Melbourne University Publishing Limited, Australia, in 2012"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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 Qinghai Lake and beyond
Bird flu guys
Bug detectives
Hawaiian wipeout
The great parrot panic of 1929-30
Catching cancer
Blue bloods and chicken bugs
Killing the vultures
Heavy metal
Red knots and crab eggs
Hot birds
For the birds, and for us
Latin binomials for common bird names.
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 Qinghai Lake and beyond
Bird flu guys
Bug detectives
Hawaiian wipeout
The great parrot panic of 1929-30
Catching cancer
Blue bloods and chicken bugs
Killing the vultures
Heavy metal
Red knots and crab eggs
Hot birds
For the birds, and for us
Latin binomials for common bird names.