Molt in Neotropical Birds: Life History and Aging Criteria
暫譯: 新熱帶鳥類的換羽：生活史與老化標準

換羽是鳥類生命歷史中一個重要的事件，涉及羽毛的脫落和更換。換羽的時間、持續時間、季節性、範圍和模式遵循某些策略，本書基於對中亞馬遜地區鳥類進行的30年研究所收集的信息，回顧並描述了近190種鳥類的這些策略。大多數物種的描述都附有幾張彩色照片，重點展示翅膀和尾羽的換羽情況、換羽的界限，以及如何利用這些模式準確地判斷鳥類的年齡。

本書由美國鳥類學會合作出版，屬於備受推崇的《鳥類生物學研究》（Studies in Avian Biology）系列，是熱帶鳥類研究的鳥類學家豐富的生命歷史信息來源。

Erik I. Johnson, Ph.D., is Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon Louisiana and an Adjunct Graduate Faculty Member at the School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. Erik completed his dissertation work studying the effects of forest fragmentation on avian communities at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in coordination with the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). Through that work, he developed and applied aging criteria to demonstrate how forest fragmentation alters demographic structuring of bird populations, and identified novel patterns in molt-breeding overlap across a suite of Neotropical bird species and families. Now primarily working on avian conservation challenges along the Gulf Coast of the United States, Erik continues to work with students at the BDFFP and helps teach an annual banding workshop offered by INPA. Erik has over 15 years of applied ornithological research experience in five countries resulting in over 25 scientific publications and much of his work is reflected in this volume. Many of these publications advance or utilize knowledge about aging birds, including the advancement of an age classification system based on plumage and molt patterns that is applicable to birds worldwide.

Jared D. Wolfe, Ph.D., is Research Faculty in the Wildlife Department at Humboldt State University and a Wildlife Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station. In addition to conducting extensive field work in the Amazon, including his Ph.D. at the BDFFP, Jared has broadened his research interests to Central Africa where he regularly conducts field work to better understand and conserve understudied bird communities in Equatorial Guinea. Recognizing the need for an improved method to classify bird age, Jared developed a transformative and universal system of age classification for tropical birds based on plumage and molt patterns - the system continually grows in popularity among tropical ornithologists. Jared has published numerous articles on bird molt, demography and behavior, and continues to teach advanced banding courses throughout the Americas and Africa.

Erik I. Johnson, Ph.D，是路易斯安那州奧杜邦協會的鳥類保護主任，以及路易斯安那州立大學可再生自然資源學院的兼任研究生教員。Erik 完成了他的論文研究，探討森林破碎化對鳥類社群的影響，該研究在生物動態森林碎片計畫（BDFFP）中進行，並與巴西亞馬遜國家研究所（INPA）合作。通過這項工作，他開發並應用了老化標準，以展示森林破碎化如何改變鳥類族群的人口結構，並識別出新熱帶鳥類物種和科別在換羽與繁殖重疊方面的獨特模式。現在，Erik 主要在美國墨西哥灣沿岸處理鳥類保護挑戰，並繼續與 BDFFP 的學生合作，幫助教授由 INPA 提供的年度標記工作坊。Erik 在五個國家擁有超過 15 年的應用鳥類學研究經驗，發表了超過 25 篇科學出版物，他的許多工作在本書中有所體現。這些出版物中的許多推進或利用了有關鳥類老化的知識，包括基於羽毛和換羽模式的年齡分類系統的推進，該系統適用於全球的鳥類。

Jared D. Wolfe, Ph.D，是洪堡州立大學野生動物系的研究教員，也是美國農業部森林服務局太平洋西南研究站的野生動物生態學家。除了在亞馬遜進行廣泛的實地工作，包括在 BDFFP 的博士研究外，Jared 還擴展了他的研究興趣至中非，定期進行實地工作，以更好地理解和保護赤道幾內亞的未充分研究的鳥類社群。Jared 認識到需要改進的鳥類年齡分類方法，開發了一種基於羽毛和換羽模式的熱帶鳥類年齡分類系統，這一系統在熱帶鳥類學家中持續受到歡迎。Jared 發表了許多有關鳥類換羽、人口統計和行為的文章，並繼續在美洲和非洲教授高級標記課程。