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Includes index. Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Defining the Arctic -- Arctic geology -- Arctic climate -- Humans in the Arctic -- Arctic habitats -- Adaptations for Arctic life -- Speciation and biogeography -- Fragile Arctic -- How to use the field guides -- Field guide to Arctic birds: Loons -- Grebes -- Albatrosses, petrels and allies -- Cormorants -- Wildfowl: Swans -- Geese -- Ducks -- Raptors -- Grouse -- Cranes -- Waders: Plovers -- Stints and sandpipers -- Snipes and dowitchers -- Curlews, godwits and allies -- Turnstones -- Phalaropes -- Skuas -- Gulls -- Terns -- Auks -- Owls -- Kingfishers -- Larks -- Swallows -- Pipits and wagtails -- Thrushes and chats -- Warblers, tits and chickadees -- Crows -- New world warblers -- New world sparrows and buntings -- Finches -- Field guide to Arctic mammals: Shrews -- Rodents -- Lagomorphs -- Ungulates -- Carnivores: Dogs -- Bears -- Cats -- Mustelids -- Pinnipeds -- Cetaceans -- Visitor's guide to the Arctic -- Index Chiefly a field guide to Arctic birds and mammals. 464 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm