Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Dreams Meet Reality in the American Tropics: A Preface 10
5. Avian Addresses: Structure of a Rainforest Bird Community 19
6. Tropical Diversity: Why So Many Bird Species in Tropical Forests? 39
7. Ghosts of Rainforests Past: Amazonian Biogeography 56
8. High-Andean Genealogy: Unraveling Ice Age Secrets 71
9. Tropical Travelers: Migration Within the Tropics 84
10. The Clubbiest of Clubs: Life in a Mixed-Species Flock 100
11. Antbirds Don't Eat Ants: Rhythms and Rituals at Ant Swarms 113
12. Who Is the Fairest? Colorfulness in Tropical and Temperate Birds 127
13. Fruit of the Land: Birds, Fruit and Seed Dispersal 141
14. Anatomy of a Fruit Eater: Foraging Tactics of Fruit-Eating Birds 156
15. A Good Song and Dance: Alternative Life-Styles of Manakins and Cotingas 169
16. Territories or Traplines? Hummingbird Foraging Strategies 185
17. Cold Reality: Highland Hummingbirds 200
18. Sallying Forth: A Flycatcher Baedeker 215
19. Finding a Needle in the Haystack: A Vulture s View of Paradise 229
20. The Costs and Benefits of Growing Old: Life and Love Among the Caciques 242
21. Sound Strategies: Sopranos Should Sing From the Treetops 256
22. Perilous Paradise: Tropical River Islands 266
23. In Search of a Season: When Do Tropical Birds Nest? 278
24. Epilogue 290
25. Bibliography 295
26. Index 304