Title: Insect and bird interactions /
Authors: Rothschild, Miriam.; Van Emden, H. F.
Publisher: Intercept,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Birds Ecology.; Insectivores.; Insects Ecology; Birds Effect of insecticides on.
Contents: Case study : an example of the kind of study now needed for insectivorous birds -- population level implications of variations in prey availability and quality in shorebirds : what we see is not necessarily what they get / John D. Goss-Custard and Andy D. West -- Birds of lowland arable farmland : the importance and identification of invertebrate diversity in the diet of chicks / Stephen J. Moreby -- Insects as food for farmland waders -- is there a problem? / Alison M. Barker -- The impact of agriculture and some solutions for arthropods and birds / John M. Holland -- Productivity and profitability : the effects of farming practices on the prey of insectivorous birds / David I. McCracken, Shona Blake and Garth N. Foster; and Eric M. Bignal -- Birds as predators of lepidopterous larvae / David M. Glen -- Can pesticides cause reductions in bird populations? / Mark I. Avery, Andy D. Evans and Lennox H. Campbell -- Interactions between an endangered bird species, non-endemic insect pests, and insecticides : the deployment of insect growth regulators in the conservation of the Seychelles magpie-robin (Copsychus sechellarum) / John P. Edwards -- Organochlorine insecticides and raptors in Britain / Colin. H. Walker -- Vision in birds : the avian retina / James K. Bowmaker -- Avian ultraviolet vision and its implications for insect defensive coloration / Stuart C. Church [and others] -- Warning colours and warning smells : how birds learn to avoid aposematic insects / Nicola M. Marples and Tim J. Roper -- The chemical defences of an aposematic complex : a case study of two-spot and seven-spot ladybirds / Nicola M. Marples.