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AVS 13: Birds - Humans - Environment

Find Books in the UC Davis Library Collections

Search for print and ebooks:

Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as avian or  bird or poultry behavior rather than the more specific feeding behavior in crows.   Useful subject searches include birds — pictorial works or birds — reproduction or birds — behavior  or poultry breeds.

 For locating birds by geography, do a subject search with “contains” and put the term birds with the geographic region such as birds california or birds venezuela or birds thailand.  Not many books for your geographic regions?   Move to a broader geographic term such South America or Asia.

CALL NUMBER ranges:  QL 670s-690s  Ornithology/Birds    OR   SF 480s-490s  Domesticated Birds/Poultry

Locate books in person:

Call number ranges to browse in the Shields Library stacks - all on the third floor.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE @  https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/


CLASS Q - SCIENCE

QH subclass  Natural History
    QH359-425     Evolution  
    QH540-549.5  Ecology

QK subclass   Botany

     QK 926  Pollination biology including animals as pollinators including birds

QL subclass   Zoology     QL1-355   Zoology General, Including geographical distribution

     QL605-739.8   Chordates. Vertebrates

          QL671-699  Birds

     QL750-795  Animal Behavior 
 

CLASS S - AGRICULTURE (General)

     SF600-1100  Veterinary Medicine  PLEASE NOTE: with the closure of the Carlson Health Sciences Library in June 2022, print-only Veterinary Medicine publications that are high-use, core titles, reference materials and serials titles will be moved to appropriate locations in Shields Library over 2022-2023.

Access eBooks online via the databases:

The following eBook collections are useful in searching the entire online text of books for specific chapters or book sections on your project topics.