Bridget Stutchbury
Auteur van Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them
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Bridget Stutchbury, PH.D., is a professor of biology at York University in Toronto, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology. Recognized as an international birding expert, she is coauthor (with Gene Morton) of Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds. Stutchbury toon meer lives in Woodbridge, Ontario, and in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Stutchbury, Bridget Joan
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Stutchbury, Bridget J. M.
- Geboortedatum
- 1962
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Woonplaatsen
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Opleiding
- Queen's University (MSc)
Yale University (PhD) - Beroepen
- Professor (York University | Biology)
- Organisaties
- York University
Women for Nature (Nature Canada) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Canada Research Chair (Ecology and Conservation Biology)
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3.5 stars
This is a nonfiction account of the author's study of birds. She looks at mating, migration, song, colour, and more for various species of bird.
It started off a little slow for me, but overall, this was good. It did pick up a bit, I thought. A lot of the species she was looking at were not ones I have seen, but it was still interesting to learn about their habits and how varied they are. She doesn't really talk much about climate change and how the environment is affecting them (she has another book for that), except in the epilogue and it was mentioned maybe once or twice otherwise. The focus of this one is simply the birds' behaviour.… (meer)
This is a nonfiction account of the author's study of birds. She looks at mating, migration, song, colour, and more for various species of bird.
It started off a little slow for me, but overall, this was good. It did pick up a bit, I thought. A lot of the species she was looking at were not ones I have seen, but it was still interesting to learn about their habits and how varied they are. She doesn't really talk much about climate change and how the environment is affecting them (she has another book for that), except in the epilogue and it was mentioned maybe once or twice otherwise. The focus of this one is simply the birds' behaviour.… (meer)
This is a factual essay of dimishing migrant songbirds. The author coveers which birds are decreasing and the various causes of their decline. She also explains why their diminishing numbers affect not just the natural world but our own quality of life in ways such as water quality, food costs and so on.
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- 5
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- 169
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- #126,057
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- 4.0
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- 3
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- 13
I’ve noticed in the last few years and especially in the spring and summer of last year that there are fewer songbirds trilling their calls around our country property.
Since reading Silence of the Songbirds, I have a good idea why this is – not that it makes me feel any better.
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is still a classic on this subject, but Stutchbury’s book is an up-to-date consideration of the whole of North America.
These are disturbing facts; I often see in my mind’s eye, even now three years after first reading of them, all those dead hawks falling from the sky over southern fields.
4 stars… (meer)