这是自然史学家几个世纪以来首次对这一主题进行全面报道。鸟类流浪是一种数百年来令自然历史学家着迷的现象。从维多利亚时代的收藏家愿意花大钱购买稀有标本，到今天的高辛烷值鸟类追逐“抽搐者”，流浪之谜已经成为全世界无数观鸟者痴迷的来源。鸟类流浪探索了鸟类流浪的模式和过程，利用最近的研究回答了一系列有关珍稀鸟类发生的基本问题。对于每一个鸟类家族，这本书都提供了对近期和历史流浪模式的深入分析，代表了全球范围内对流浪行为的首次全面评估。伴随着这些报道的还有数百张之前未公开的照片，其中有许多是有记录以来最杰出的流浪者。这本书首次综合了我们对这一主题的所有了解，将流浪作为一种生物学现象，对鸟类生态学和进化产生深远影响。
Vagrancy in Birds
The first comprehensive coverage of a subject that has fascinated natural historians for centuries.Avian vagrancy is a phenomenon that has fascinated natural historians for centuries. From Victorian collectors willing to spend fortunes on a rare specimen, to today’s high-octane bird-chasing ‘twitchers’, the enigma of vagrancy has become a source of obsession for countless birders worldwide.Vagrancy in Birds explores both pattern and process in avian vagrancy, drawing on recent research to answer a suite of fundamental questions concerning the occurrence of rare birds. For each avian family, the book provides an in-depth analysis of recent and historical vagrancy patterns, representing the first comprehensive assessment of vagrancy at a global scale. The accounts are accompanied by hundreds of previously unpublished images featuring many of the most exceptional vagrants on record.The book synthesises for the first time everything we know about the subject, making the case for vagrancy as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching implications for avian ecology and evolution.
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