James D. Paruk is one of the world’s leading experts on the Common Loon. He has studied breeding loons and wintering loons in several states and in Canada for almost thirty years. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, he studied the health and recovery of wintering loons in Louisiana for Earthwatch Institute. He has served as vice president of the North American Loon Fund and chair of the research committee for LoonWatch, the flagship program of the Sigurd Olson Research Institute at Northland College in Wisconsin. He is associate professor of biology at St. Joseph’s College, adjunct professor of biology at the University of Southern Maine, and adjunct senior research scientist at the Biodiversity Research Institute in Portland, Maine.
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Contents Preface 1. In Search of the Ancestral Loon 2. Selected by Nature: A Tale of Two Birds 3. What a Drag! The Inner Workings of a Master Diver 4. Pairing Up: The Behavioral Ecology of Loon Courtship 5. Taking Turns: Nesting Behavior and Ecological Trade-Offs 6. Wails, Yodels, and Tremolos: The Call of the Common Loon 7. A Vigilant Bird: Parents, Chicks, and the Breeding Loon Family 8. More Than a Foot Waggle: The Fascinating World of Loon Behavior 9. Loons on the Move: The Strategy and Dynamics of Migration 10. Not Your Typical Snowbird: The Loon’s Winter Ecology 11. Saving the Loons We Love: Conservation Threats 12. Loon Watch: Adapting to a Changing World Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
Contents Preface 1. In Search of the Ancestral Loon 2. Selected by Nature: A Tale of Two Birds 3. What a Drag! The Inner Workings of a Master Diver 4. Pairing Up: The Behavioral Ecology of Loon Courtship 5. Taking Turns: Nesting Behavior and Ecological Trade-Offs 6. Wails, Yodels, and Tremolos: The Call of the Common Loon 7. A Vigilant Bird: Parents, Chicks, and the Breeding Loon Family 8. More Than a Foot Waggle: The Fascinating World of Loon Behavior 9. Loons on the Move: The Strategy and Dynamics of Migration 10. Not Your Typical Snowbird: The Loon’s Winter Ecology 11. Saving the Loons We Love: Conservation Threats 12. Loon Watch: Adapting to a Changing World Epilogue Acknowledgments Index
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