Their fate is our fate, how birds foretell threats to our health and our world, Peter Doherty
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Their fate is our fate, how birds foretell threats to our health and our world, Peter Doherty
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Their fate is our fate
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
849822352
Responsibility statement
Peter Doherty
Sub title
how birds foretell threats to our health and our world
Table Of Contents
Searching for puffins : an introduction -- Distant relatives -- Chick embryos and other developing life forms -- Sentinel chickens -- Falling crows -- Ticks, sheep, grouse and the glorious twelfth -- Flu flies -- Bird flu : from Hong Kong to Qinghai Lake and beyond -- Bird flu guys -- Bug detectives -- Hawaiian wipeout -- The great parrot panic of 1929-30 -- Catching cancer -- Blue bloods and chicken bugs -- Killing the vultures -- Heavy metal -- Red knots and crab eggs -- Hot birds -- For the birds, and for us -- Latin binomials for common bird names
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