Avian Incubation
Subtitle: Behaviour, Environment, and Evolution (Oxford Ornithology Series, 13)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780198508106
First sentence: Reproduction in birds is extremely conservative with the vast majority of the 8,900 species adopting bird-egg contact incubation to maintain an appropriate environment for embryonic development.