To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Ornithology  Biology, Ecology & Behaviour

Bird Migration Across the Himalayas Wetland Functioning Amidst Mountains and Glaciers

By: Herbert HT Prins(Editor), Tsewang Namgail(Editor), The Dalai Lama(Foreword By)
440 pages, 32 plates with 110 colour photos, colour illustrations and colour maps; 52 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 35 b/w maps, 30 tables
Bird Migration Across the Himalayas
Click to have a closer look
  • Bird Migration Across the Himalayas ISBN: 9781107114715 Hardback Apr 2017 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £88.99
    #231628
Price: £88.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles
Images Additional images
Bird Migration Across the HimalayasBird Migration Across the HimalayasBird Migration Across the HimalayasBird Migration Across the Himalayas

About this book

Birds migrating across the Himalayan region fly over the highest peaks in the world, facing immense physiological and climatic challenges. The authors show the different strategies used by birds to cope with these challenges. Many wetland avian species are seen in the high-altitude lakes of the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan Plateau, such as Bar-Headed Geese. Ringing programmes have generated information about origins and destinations, and Bird Migration Across the Himalayas is the first to present information on the bird's exact migratory paths. Capitalising on knowledge generated through satellite telemetry, the authors describe the migratory routes of a multitude of birds flying over or skirting the Himalayas. The myriad of threats to migratory birds and the wetland system in the Central Asian Flyway are discussed, with ways to mitigate them. Bird Migration Across the Himalayas will inform and persuade policy-makers and conservation practitioners to take appropriate measures for the long-term survival of this unique migration.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Part I. Migratory Routes and Movement Ecology:
1. Goose migration across the Himalayas: migratory routes and movement patterns of bar-headed geese
2. Himalayan thoroughfare: migratory routes of ducks over the rooftop of the world
3. Migratory routes across the Himalayas used by Demoiselle Cranes
4. Passerine migration across the Himalayas
5. Wader migration across the Himalayas
6. Raptor migration across and around the Himalayas
7. Steppe Eagle migration from Mongolia to India
8. Peregrine Falcons crossing the 'Roof of the World'

Part II. Physiography of the Highest Barrier on Earth:
9. Geological origin and evolution of the Himalayas
10. Late Quaternary glacier fluctuations in the Himalayas and adjacent mountains
11. The influence of hydrology and glaciology on wetlands in the Himalayas
12. The Himalayan vegetation along horizontal and vertical gradients
13. Assessing the evidence for changes in vegetation phenology in high altitude wetlands of Ladakh (2002–2015)

Part III. High-Altitude Migration Strategies:
14. The wind system in the Himalayas: from a bird's-eye view
15. Birds, gliders and uplift systems over the Himalayas
16. Goose migration over the Himalayas: physiological adaptations
17. Distance-altitude trade off may explain why some migratory birds fly over and not around the Himalayas
18. Refuelling stations for waterbirds: macroinvertebrate biomass in relation to altitude in the Trans-Himalayas
19. The Himalayas as an ecological barrier for avian migrants: high and dry, but also dangerous?
20. Bird species diversity on an elevational gradient between the Greater Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau

Part IV. People and their Effects on the Himalayas:
21. Evidence of human presence in the Himalayan mountains: new insights from petroglyphs
22. Pastoralism and wetland resources in Ladakh's Changthang plateau
23. Impacts of tourism and military presence on wetlands and their avifauna in the Himalayas
24. Birds in relation to farming and livestock grazing in the Indian Trans-Himalaya
25. Migratory ducks and protected wetlands in India
26. A network of small, dispersed Himalayan wetlands suitable for designation under the Ramsar Convention

Part V. Conclusions:
27. Bird migration across the Himalayas and beyond: the need for better conservation and management of a natural wonder

Appendix. Locations (places, mountains, rivers, etc.) mentioned in the chapters and their geographic coordinates

Customer Reviews

Biography

Herbert H. T. Prins is professor in Resource Ecology at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is known for savanna ecology and has investigated wild goose ecology in Europe, on Spitsbergen and in Siberia. For his conservation efforts, he received the Aldo Leopold Award from the American Society of Mammalogists, and was appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau and Officer in the Order of the Golden Ark.

Tsewang Namgail heads the Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust. After his higher education in Europe, he moved to the USA and worked on migratory birds. He has done pioneering ecological work on mammals in the Himalayas and serves on the editorial board of Ecological Research and Pastoralism journals.


Contributors:

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Tsewang Namgail
- Herbert H. T. Prins
- John Y. Takekawa
- Eric C. Palm
- Diann J. Prosser
- Lucy A. Hawkes
- Nyambayar Batbayar
- Sivananinthaperumal Balachandran
- Ze Luo
- Xiangming Xiao
- Scott H. Newman
- Taej Mundkur
- Víctor Martín Vélez
- Hiroyoshi Higuchi
- Jason Minton
- Simon Delany
- Charles Williams
- Clare Sulston
- John Norton
- David Garbutt
- Matías A. Juhant
- Keith L. Bildstein
- Hansoo Lee
- Andrew Dixon
- Md Lutfor Rahman
- Aleksandr Sokolov
- Vasiliy Sokolov
- Michael Searle
- Lewis Owen
- Bodo Bookhagen
- Gopal S. Rawat
- Sumanta Bagchi
- Ekta Gupta
- Karthik Murthy
- Navinder J. Singh
- Klaus Ohlman
- René Heise
- C. M. Bishop
- P. J. Butler
- P. B. Frappell
- J. U. Meir
- W. K. Milsom
- T. Natsagdorj
- G. S. Scott
- Thomas A. Groen
- Rob J. Jansen
- Ron C. Ydenberg
- Sipke E. van Wieren
- Martin Vernier
- Laurianne Bruneau
- Sunetro Ghosal
- Monisha Ahmed
- Blaise Humbert-Droz
- T. R. Shankar Raman
- Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi
- Charudutt Mishra
- Ponnusamy Sathiyaselvam
- Tracy McCracken

By: Herbert HT Prins(Editor), Tsewang Namgail(Editor), The Dalai Lama(Foreword By)
440 pages, 32 plates with 110 colour photos, colour illustrations and colour maps; 52 b/w photos and b/w illustrations, 35 b/w maps, 30 tables
Media reviews

"[...] Somewhat surprisingly, the contributions in the second section are non-avian [...] Moreover, some of the ornithological contributions of other sections are focused on birds in the region in general rather than on migration in the region in particular [...] This makes the book feel rather disjointed in places and unfocused relative to the main unifying theme. That said, each contribution is interesting in its own right and the overall book is as consistent in style, formatting, and use of tables/figures as is possible in such a multi-author compilation [...] Overall, this is an interesting book for anyone who shares the editors' fascination for the Himalayas and their wildlife and, for the most part, people interested in bird migration or wetland bird ecology more generally."
– Anne Goodenough, BES Bulletin, 49(1)

Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides