Boom & bust  bird stories for a dry country /  [electronic resource] : 
 Boom and bust 
Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors). 
 - Collingwood, Vic. :  CSIRO Pub.,  c2009. 
 - xi, 299 p. :  ill., map. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : boom and bust / Libby Robin and Mike Smith -- The boom and bust desert world : a bird's eye view / Libby Robin and Leo Joseph -- Barcoo bantam : 'It runs like hell!' / Graham Pizzey -- Rain and grass : lessons in how to be a zebra finch / Steve Morton -- Grey teal : survivors in a changing world / David Roshier -- Australian pelican : flexible responses to uncertainty / Julian Reid -- Night parrots : fugitives of the inland / Penny Olsen -- Genyornis : last of the dromornithids / Mike Smith -- Rainbirds : organising the country / Deborah Bird Rose -- Woodswallows : a longer term, evolutionary view of boom and bust / Leo Joseph -- White-winged choughs : the social consequences of boom and bust / Robert Heinsohn -- Emu : national symbols and ecological limits / Libby Robin. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780643097094 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Birds--Behavior--Australia.<br/>Birds--Effect of drought on--Australia.<br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QL693  / .B66 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>598.0994