Bird Families of the World

Bird Families of the World PDF

Author: David Ward Winkler

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 9788494189203

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This volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. It distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group, this volume is the best single-volume entry to avian diversity available.

Toucans, Barbets, and Honeyguides

Toucans, Barbets, and Honeyguides PDF

Author: Lester Short

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-11-08

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780198546665

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This book covers in unmatched detail the life history, relationships, biology, and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. These number 133 species, found in tropical regions around the world. The toucans are especially well-known because of their dramatic bills and their association with the Amazon rainforest. The colour plates, painted by well- known US artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced.

Ratites and Tinamous

Ratites and Tinamous PDF

Author: S. J. J. F. Davies

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780198549963

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The book contains a complete description of the natural history and biology of the Ratites and Tinamous - the group of flightless birds that includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis. Each species is treated in turn, with seven general introductory chapters and full colour illustrations of all 55 species, as well as over 50 line drawings. The author has spent 25 years research on the ratites and has drawn together the extensive and often inaccessible literature on the groups.

Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise PDF

Author: Clifford B. Frith

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1998-07-09

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780198548539

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Birds of paradise have long played a central part in human mythologies and captured the imagination of collectors, scientists, and naturalists - and fashion designers. Birds of Paradise provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, and scientifically accurate overview of the behaviour, biology, ecology, biogeography, and history of the most ornate and dramatic group of birds on earth. The book is illustrated by 12 superb, specially commissioned colour plates including all 42 species of birds of paradise, original line drawings of many behaviours never before recorded, maps, graphs, sonograms, and photographs. This stunning book will delight ornithologists and naturalists the world over.

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