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The information for each species account in the Life Histories of North American Birds is found under nine main themes: (1) breeding, (2) food and feeding, (3) habitat, (4) conservation and economic importance, (5) speciation, (6) nesting, (7) behavior, (8) mortality and parasitism, and (9) courtship. Birdcentral.net utilizes small segments of the species account from the Life Histories of North American Birds. We have placed those segments under the proper category heading. |
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This includes mating and care of the young. Nesting and Courtship are handled separately. |
Food and feeding includes cataloguing of the food eaten by particular species and descriptions of how the food is obtained. |
Habitat includes descriptions of the types of areas that the birds utilize during their breeding season, non-breeding season, and sometimes migration. |
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The conservation section includes discussions on particular species' (White-tailed Kite) efforts to survive, and also the effect of introduced species (European Starling) on other native species, and contributions made by species by eating destructive insects (Black-bellied Plover). |
Speciation discusses the process of determining what is a species, and what should be recognized as a sub-species. The discussion of what is a species has been going on for a long time. |
Nesting discusses how nests are built, by whom, and what artifacts get added to the nest. |
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Behavior includes how birds interact with each other, and other species including humans. This is primarily behavior not covered by courtship or mating. |
Mortality includes the pressures that affect a bird's ability to stay alive. |
Courtship looks at the procedures that various birds go through to obtain a mate. |
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