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The animal on the cover of Programming MapPoint in .NET is a great frigate bird (fregata minor), also known as a man-of-war bird. Once thought of as a bad omen by Europeans settling in the Western Hemisphere, frigate birds are indeed unpopular with other tropical birds, whose prey they steal with their long, hooked beaks.

However, frigate birds are not bullies simply for the pleasure of harassing other birds. Although their diet consists solely of fish, their disproportionately small feet and lack of waterproofing oil on their feathers make catching fish difficult. Although their relatively large wingspan and light body weight enable them to swoop low to the ocean surface to snatch fish, their main food supply comes from chasing other birds and attacking them until they relinquish their fish, either by dropping fresh kills from their beaks or by regurgitating their recently eaten meals, both of which frigate birds will greedily gobble up.

Despite their inability to swim, frigate birds are tropical sea birds that come to land only to breed. About the size of a large chicken, they weigh only four pounds and have a wingspan of up to six feet, so they can fly for extremely long distances, sometimes staying on ocean updrafts for days. During the breeding season, males attract potential mates by puffing up their bare, bright red throat skin to the size of a human head, sometimes larger than the birds themselves.

While both parents tend the nest, males breed every yeartwice as frequently as females, since eggs take nearly two months to hatch, and chicks are dependent on their mothers for food for a year and a half after hatching. Although frigate birds are not ready to breed until they are nine years old, they still have plenty of opportunities, since they have an average life span of 30 years.

Reba Libby was the production editor and the copyeditor for Programming MapPoint in .NET. Jeffrey Liggett proofread the book. Claire Cloutier and Adam Witwer provided quality control. Lucie Haskins wrote the index.

Karen Montgomery designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from Cassell's Natural History. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Reba Libby.




Programming MapPoint in  .NET
Programming MapPoint in .NET
ISBN: 0596009062
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 136
Authors: Chandu Thota

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