Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica

by Martin R. de la Peña, Maurice Rumboll, Gustavo Carrizo (Illustrator), Aldo A. Chiappe (Illustrator), Luis Huber (Illustrator)

Overview

South America, though home to about one-third of the world's bird species and twice as many endemic families of birds as any other continent, has the world's sparsest population of birdwatchers. Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica illustrates and describes all the known species—more than 1,000 of them—in a vast swath of this underexplored birder's paradise, from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay to parts of Antarctica. Just some of the birds it covers are teals, tinamous, chachalacas, conebills, cuckoos, macaws, parakeets, parrots, penguins, nightjars, hummingbirds, ovenbirds, tyrants, and tanagers. The habitats range from torrid rainforests and cloudforests to grasslands, the world's driest desert, second highest mountain range, and ice caps.


The 97 color plates depict each species' male in breeding plumage, with the female and young often shown as well. On the facing page are concise textual descriptions of each species, highlighting not only salient physical features and behavioral patterns but the calls or songs of each. Casual birders and ornithologists contemplating a journey to the region, or simply interested in a one-volume overview of its bird life, will not want to miss this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691090351
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	08/05/2001
Series:	Princeton Illustrated Checklists
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	615,070
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martín R. de la Peña, a veterinarian and ornithologist, studies the reproduction of birds, on which he has published three books, alongside a dozen others, in his native Argentina. He has also produced several films on the life of birds. Maurice Rumboll, one of Argentina's top naturalists, directs environmental education programs for students and plans interpretive trails, brochure texts, and visitor centers for his country's National Park Administration, whose Ranger Training Institute he formerly headed. Previously he directed visitors' services and research at Iguazú National Park and served as Traveling Naturalist for the Argentine Museum of Natural History.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Plate

1 Rheas

2 Tinamous

3 Tinamous

4 Grebes

5 Albatrosses

6 Petrels

7 Petrels and Prions

8 Prions, Petrels and Shearwaters

9 Storm-petrels and Diving-petrels

10 Penguins

11 Ttopicbitds, Boobies and Pelican

12 Cormorants, Anhinga and Frigatebirds

13 Herons and Bitterns

14 Ibises, Spoonbill, Storks, Flamingos and Screamers

15 Ducks, Swan and Geese

16 Ducks

17 Ducks

18 Ducks

19 Raptors (Vultures, Condorand Osprey)

20 Raptors(Kites)

21 Raptors (Harriers and Hawks)

22 Raptors (Hawks, Buzzard-eagle and Eagles)

23 Raptors (Hawks)

24 Raptors (Eagles and Hawk-eagles)

25 Raptors (Caracaras)

26 Raptors (Falcons, Forest-falcons and Kestrel)

27 Raptors (Chachalacas, Guans and Curassow)

28 Fowl (Wood-quail and Quail) and Crakes

29 Crakes and Rails

30 Gallinules and Coots

31 Sungrebe, Limpkin, Seriemas, Thick-knee, Lapwings and Plovers 32 Plovers and Dotterel

33 Oystercatchers, Stilt, Avocet, Jacana and Painted Snipe

34 Sandpipers, Curlew, Whimbtel, Godwits, Tumstone and Surfbird

35 Knot, Sandeding and Sandpipers

36 Dowitcher, Snipe, Phalaropes and Seed-snipe

37 Sheathbill, Jaegers, Skuas and Black Skimmer

38 Gulls

39 Terns

40 Tems

41 Doves and pigeons

42 Doves

43 Macaws, Parakeets and Parrot

44 Parakeets and Parrots

45 Cuckoos

46 Owls

47 Owls

48 Night hawks and Nightjars

49 Nightjars

50 Potas and Swifts

51 Hummingbirds

52 Hummingbirds

53 Hummingbirds

54 Trogons, Motmots, Kingfishers, Puffbirds and Jacamary

55 Toucans

56 Woodpeckers

57 Woodpeckers

58 Woodpeckers

59 Woodcreepers

60 Ovenbirds and allies (Miners and Earthcreepexs)

61 Ovenbirds and allies (Cinclodes, Groundcreeper, Hoxneros, Reedhaunters, Wiremil, Rayaditos, Rushbird and Tit-spinetails)

62 Ovenbirds and allies (Tit-spinetails and Spinetails)

63 Ovenbirds andallies(CanasterosandWren-spinetail)

64 Ovenbirds and allies (Thornbirds, Brush-runner, Firewood-gatherer, Treerunner and Cacholotes)

65 Ovenbirds and allies (Foliage-gleaners, Treehunter, Xenops, Treerunner, Leaftosser and Streamcreeper)

66 Antshrikes

67 Antvireos,Antwrens and Antbirds

68 Antbirds, Fire-eyes, Antthxushes, Antpittas and Gnateatex

69 Tapaculos

70 Tyrants (Tyrannulets, Flycatchers and Elaenias)

71 Tyrants (Tyrannulets, Wagtail-tyrant, Tit-tyrants and Rush-tyrant)

72 Tyrants (Grass-tyrant, Tachuri, Doraditos, Pygmy-tyrants, Flycatchers, Bristle-tyrant, Tyrannulets)

73 Tyrants (Tyrannulets, Pygmy-tyrant, Tody-tyrant, Bamboo-tyrant, Tody-Flycatchers, Flatbill, Flycatcher and Spadebills)

74 Tyrants (Flycatchers, Peewees, Chat-tyrants and Bush-tyrants)

75 Tyrants (Diucon, Monjitas and Shrike-tyrants)

76 Tyrants(Ground-tyrants and Negritos)

77 Tyrants (Black-tyrants, Water-tyrants and Marsh-tyrant)

78 Tyrants (Field-tyrant, Flycatcher, Grey-tyrant, Attila, Casiomis, Sirystes, Flycatchers and Kiskadees)

79 Tyrants (Flycatchers and Kingbirds)

80 Tyrants (Xenopsaris, Becards and Tityras)

81 Manakins, Cotingas (Berry-eaters, Fruitcrows, Bellbird), Sharpbill, Plantcutters and Jays 82 Swallows and Martins

83 Wrens, Dippers and Gnatcatchexs

84 Thrushes and Mockingbirds

85 Pipits and Starlings

86 Vireos, Wood Warblers and Bananaquit

87 Tanagers (Conebills, Dacnis, Chlorophonia and Euphonias)

88 Tanagers

89 Tanagers

90 Saltators, Grosbeaks and Cardinals

91 Cardinal, Embezerine Finches (Chaco-finch, Brush-finches, Grassquits, Seedeaters and Seed-finch)

92 Emberizine Finches (Seedeaters and Grassquit)

93 Emberizine Finches (Pampa-finch, Grass-finches, Yellowfinches and Warbling-finches)

94 Emberizine Finches (Warbling-finches, Diuca-finches, Reedfinch and Flower-piercexs)

95 Emberizine Finches (Sierra-finches and Sparrows)

96 Blackbirds, Cowbirds, Caciques and Oriole

97 Blackbirds, Marshbirds, Meadowlarks, Siskins and House Sparrow A-E Silhouettes of raptors in flight

Annotated map of area followed by a distribution map for each bird 218

Bibliography and list of further reading 292

Indexes of English and scientific names 293

Editorial Reviews

"[A]n outstanding field guide that covers a vast geographic area and includes a wealth of information for more than 1,100 species of birds. . . . It should be purchased by anybody interested in the birds of southern South America."—-Floyd E. Hayes, Auk

From the Publisher

[A]n outstanding field guide that covers a vast geographic area and includes a wealth of information for more than 1,100 species of birds. . . . It should be purchased by anybody interested in the birds of southern South America.

Auk - Floyd E. Hayes

[A]n outstanding field guide that covers a vast geographic area and includes a wealth of information for more than 1,100 species of birds. . . . It should be purchased by anybody interested in the birds of southern South America.
— Floyd E. Hayes

Auk