POPULATION ECOLOGY OF RAPTORS. By Ian Newton.

1979 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp399. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Dr. Newton's book is concerned with all aspects of population regulation in diurnal birds of prey, their social behaviour, dispersion, numbers, movements, breeding and mortality. He has drawn on his own studies in Scotland and on material and investigations worldwide to produce an authoritative and stimulating synthesis of current thinking and research on the ecological problems of the Falconiformes. He also deals in detail with the effects of pesticides and other pollutants on these birds, and with their scientific management and conservation". Chapters include: Relationship between the sexes; Dispersion; Breeding density; Winter density; Problems concerning nest-sites; Breeding - five chapters; Movements; Mortality; Human persecution; DDT and other organo-chlorines; Other pollutants and pesticides; Conservation management; Breeding from captive birds.