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One of the most striking facts to emerge from this review of the literature on arid-zone ornithology is how the research has centred on the desert regions of North America, southern Africa, North Africa and Australia. The remaining deserts have received very little attention, yet they must have much to offer the researcher in the way of new and comparative information. Some work has been done in the deserts of South America and a little on those of Asia, both of which regions harbour arid-adapted birds of many kinds: the unique and poorly known seedsnipe (Thinocoridae) of South America and the ground jays Podoces of arid Asia, to name but two groups, yet there is still so much to do.
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Maclean, G.L. (1996). Into Tommorow……... In: Ecophysiology of Desert Birds. Adaptations of Desert Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60981-7_9
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