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Book 1996ur predecessors when they began their service as editors. In his preface to Volume 1 (1983), Richard F. Johnston wrote: The appearance of the first volume of a projected series is the occasion for comment on scope, aims, and genesis of the work. The scope of Current Or­ nithology is all of the biolo

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Social Cognition,that a major revolution has overtaken scientific thinking about the behavior of primates and other mammals. The cognitive revolution took psychology by storm some years ago and, for many primatologists and psychologists, supplemented, and even superseded, more traditional approaches to the study of

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Predicting Cognitive Capacity from Natural History,rds, historically, many ornithologists have considered birds as instinct-driven organisms of little intellectual capacity. For example, the ornithological textbook of choice from the 1960s states the following view of avian intelligence:

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Assessing Body Condition in Birds,er conceptually or operationally. Although at this time there is no clear consensus on the definition for body condition, conceptually, the term in many cases describes the degree to which an organism’s physiological state influences its performance (i.e., production, activity, or response to enviro

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Avian Chemical Defense,ve been described for fish, salamanders, frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, and even mammals. For some of these groups, e.g., frogs and toads, chemical defense may be the primary means of protection from predation. In contrast, no birds are listed in recent indices of chemically-defended animals (see Sp

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Past and Current Attempts to Evaluate the Role of Birds as Predators of Insect Pests in Temperate Adies demonstrate that avian predators can reduce agricultural insect pests below a level at which unchecked populations would cause economic damage to crops or require treatment with pesticides. In fact, since the subject of economic ornithology (“all relations of birds that has any bearing upon the

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