Boom & bust
Subtitle: bird stories for a dry country
By: Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors)
Publisher: CSIRO Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Collingwood, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780643096066
Other titles: Boom and bust
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : boom and bust / Libby Robin and Mike Smith; title: The boom and bust desert world : a bird's eye view / Libby Robin and Leo Joseph; title: Barcoo bantam : 'It runs like hell!' / Graham Pizzey; title: Rain and grass : lessons in how to be a zebra finch / Steve Morton; title: Grey teal : survivors in a changing world / David Roshier; title: Australian pelican : flexible responses to uncertainty / Julian Reid; title: Night parrots : fugitives of the inland / Penny Olsen; title: Genyornis : last of the dromornithids / Mike Smith; title: Rainbirds : organising the country / Deborah Bird Rose; title: Woodswallows : a longer term, evolutionary view of boom and bust / Leo Joseph; title: White-winged choughs : the social consequences of boom and bust / Robert Heinsohn; title: Emu : national symbols and ecological limits / Libby Robin.