WEATHER AND BIRD BEHAVIOUR. By Norman Elkins.

1983 1st edition. Large 8vo (159 x 239mm). Pp239. B/w photograph plates, b/w diagrams, tables and weather maps, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

This book discusses "the effects of weather on bird life and the meterological aspects of the avian environment rather than long-term climatic influences, though the latter are not ignored". Chapters include: The weather; Flight; Feeding; Aerial feeding; Breeding; Comfort; Migration - inception and progress; Migrational drift and displacement; Vagrancy; Migration of soaring birds; Extreme weather; Seabirds. "It is refreshing to come across a bird book whose subject cuts across all taxonomic and geographical barriers, and which is relevant to so many aspects of bird life. Every day's birdwatching can be enhanced by the knowledge to be gained from the book. This is not just a good bird book, but a good Poyser, a book for all weathers." (Mark Avery, Ibis). "In all an excellent book and the author is indeed to be congratulated on bringing together with such clarity the different inter-relationships between birds, weather and flying." (Gerald Donnelly, Irish Birds).