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Avocets

This page lists books about Avocets. The books are in order of publication date with the most recent at the top.


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Avocets

Family: Recurvirostridae
Genus: Recurvirostra

In the UK

Pied Avocet
Recurvirostra avosetta

Worldwide

There are three other species of Avocets, two in the Americas and one endemic to Australia.

American Avocet
Recurvirostra americana

Andean Avocet
Recurvirostra andina

Red-necked Avocet
Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

 

Habitat use by Avocet and Dark-bellied Brent Geese on the Deben Estuary over the high tide period

Neil Calbrade & Nick Mason

BTO Research Report 622

British Trust For Ornithology

2012

"This study investigates the use of habitats on the Deben Estuary in Suffolk by Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta and Dark-bellied Brent Geese Branta bernicla bernicla over the high tide period."

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The Avocet

David Hill

Shire Natural History 34

1989

"This book has chapters dealing with avocet plumage, world distribution and populations, food, feeding ecology and predators. A further chapter details courtship, breeding and migration. The final chapter deals with managing and conserving avocet habits and shows how they can be encouraged to breed."

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Havergate: Island of the Avocet

Eric Young

RSPB

1989

A 20 page booklet.

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Minsmere Portrait Of A Bird Reserve

Herbert Axell and Eric Hosking

Hutchinson

1977

"The fame of the RSPB reserve at Minsmere in Suffolk is recognized not only by the thousands of visitors it has each year but also by all who watch and photograph birds throughout the world. Much of the credit for Minsmere's reputation belongs to Herbert Axell, for seventeen years the reserve's warden,who was mainly responsible for developing the different habitats which now attract such large numbers of birds......In his text Herebert Axell tells the full story of the reserve-its geology, history, planning and construction. His chapter on the making of the scrape, retailing the conception and development of this modern method of providing safe breeding sites for endangered species, and his chapters on Bitterns, Marsh Harriers, Avocets and Bearded Tits are the highlights of an absorbing and fascinating narrative."

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Comparative behavior of the American Avocet and the Black-necked Stilt (Recurvirostridae)

Robert Bruce Hamilton

Ornithological Monographs 18

American Ornithologists' Union

1975

A 52 page study.

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Materials And Methods
    The Study Area
    Weather During the Study Period
    Vegetation in the Study Area
    Census Methods
    Territorial Behavior
    Winter Behavior
  • Results
    Population Characteristics
    Homing
    Nesting
    The Eggs
    The Nest and Incubation
    The Young
    Territoriality
    Displays
    Other Aspects of Reproductive Biology
    Major Factors Influencing Production
  • Summary
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Comparative behavior of the American Avocet and the Black-necked Stilt (Recurvirostridae)

Robert Bruce Hamilton

Ornithological Monographs 17

American Ornithologists' Union

1975

A 98 page study.

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Materials And Methods
  • Geographic Distribution Description Of North American Recurvirostrids
  • Sexual Dimorphism
  • Habitat
  • Maintenance Behavior
  • Locomotion
  • Social Behavior
  • Sexual Interactions
  • Nesting Behavior
  • Intention Movements
  • Displacement Activities
  • Summary And Conclusions
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Avocets in England

Philip Edward Brown

Introduction: J.K. Stanford

Illustration: C.F. Tunnicliffe

Photographs: T.M. Fowler, Eric Hosking, A.W.P. Robertson

Occasional publications no. 14

RSPB

1950

A 40 page book describing the return of the Avocet as a breeding British bird.

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On Rare Or Little-Known Limicolae: The Genus Recurvirostra

James Edmund Harting

Colour plate (Recurvirostra andina): J.G. Keulemans

Ibis: Volume 16, Issue 3, pages 241-261

1874

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"So long ago as 1863, in Wiegmann's 'Archiv' for that year, p. 131, Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck described an Avocet from the Andes, which they named Recurvirostra andina, and which was said to differ materially from the only species of the genus then known to inhabit the New World. Their description and measurements, to which I shall presently refer, left little to be desired save the acquisition of further specimens and the information which other observers might supply as to the geographical range and habits of the bird. Strange to say, although ten years have elapsed since it wm brought to the notice of ornithologists, no further observations, so far as I am aware, have been published in regard to this interesting species."
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