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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Species Covered
Preface
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
Format of the Species Accounts
Introduction
What Are Tubenoses?
Ocean Habitats
Current Systems
Thermoclines, Upwelling, and Fronts
Habitat Associations
Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Vagrancy
Taxonomy and an Identification Framework
Family Procellariidae: Petrels
Family Diomedeidae: Albatrosses
Family Hydrobatidae: Northern Storm-Petrels
Family Oceanitidae: Southern Storm-Petrels
Field Identification of Tubenoses
Age, Sex, Individual, and Geographic Variation
Flight Manner
Environmental Factors
Appearance and Topography
Molts, Plumages, and Aging
How to See Tubenoses
Conservation
Threats to Seabirds
Seabirds as Indicators
Species Accounts
Abbreviations and Terminology
Appendix A. Recently Extinct Species
Appendix B. Hypothetical Records
Literature Cited
Index
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