This classic Poyser title, now in its third revised edition, discusses in depth the various ways in which weather conditions influence bird behaviour.

Weather conditions affect food and water availability, decisions about when and how to migrate, timing and success of reproduction, flight style, and physical comfort.

Birds display many adaptations in form and behaviour that help them to cope with changing weather conditions, and this fascinating book uses a great variety of examples to explore the subject in depth.

The text is enhanced throughout with evocative line drawings, there are many useful tables and figures, and there is also an 8pp colour photograph section.

Norman Elkins is a retired meteorologist and amateur ornithologist. He is an acknowledged authority on the effects of weather on birds.

List of colour plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements

1 The Weather
2 Flight
3 Feeding
4 Aerial Feeding
5 Breeding
6 Comfort
7 Migration: Inception and Progress
8 Migration Drift and Displacement
9 Vagrancy
10 Migration of Soaring Birds
11 Extreme Weather
12 Seabirds

References
Appendices