Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Species Accounts
Volume I of a comprehensive two-part identification guide dealing exclusively with the birds of this region.

It covers all the species, including vagrants, found in Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. More than 2,300 species are described in depth in the text, describing geographical variation, identification, status, habitat, voice and taxonomy. Detailed and comprehensive colour plates and distribution maps may be found in the second volume, Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Plates and Maps.

This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of this region, which is of such importance to both the indigenous species and those which pass through on migration.

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Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Species Accounts
Volume I of a comprehensive two-part identification guide dealing exclusively with the birds of this region.

It covers all the species, including vagrants, found in Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. More than 2,300 species are described in depth in the text, describing geographical variation, identification, status, habitat, voice and taxonomy. Detailed and comprehensive colour plates and distribution maps may be found in the second volume, Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Plates and Maps.

This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of this region, which is of such importance to both the indigenous species and those which pass through on migration.

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Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Species Accounts

Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Species Accounts

Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Species Accounts

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Volume I of a comprehensive two-part identification guide dealing exclusively with the birds of this region.

It covers all the species, including vagrants, found in Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. More than 2,300 species are described in depth in the text, describing geographical variation, identification, status, habitat, voice and taxonomy. Detailed and comprehensive colour plates and distribution maps may be found in the second volume, Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: Plates and Maps.

This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of this region, which is of such importance to both the indigenous species and those which pass through on migration.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472981615
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 01/23/2020
Series: Helm Field Guides
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 880
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Robin Restall is author of Munias and Mannikins (Pica Press) and is a Research Associate at the Phelps Museum in Caracas; Clemencia Rodner and Miguel Lentino work at the same museum.
Miguel Lentino works at the Phelps Museum in Caracas.
Robin Restall is author and illustrator of several titles on the birds of South America, including the acclaimed Birds of Northern South America (Helm, 2006), and was also author of Munias and Mannikins (Pica Press, 1996).
Clemencia Rodner works at the Phelps Museum in Caracas.

Table of Contents

List of families
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
- Objectives of this book
- Taxonomy
- Nomenclature
- Geographical area covered
- Moult and ageing

How to use this book:
- Concept of the book
- The species accounts
References and citations
The plates
The maps
Abbreviated information
Errors and corrections
Bird topography
Climate, vegetation and habitats
- Glossary of habitats
Avifauna of Northern South America
Migration
- Nearctic migrants
- Austral migrants
- Intra-topical migrants
Conservation

The Species Accounts

A Discography of Northern South American bird voices by Shaun Peters
Glossary
Organisations
Bibliography
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