A Guide to the Birds of Colombia

Hilty, Steven L. and William L. Brown; Guy Tudor (illustrator)

ISBN 10: 0691083711 / ISBN 13: 9780691083711

Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1986

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Hardcover. "The primary purpose of this work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume" (jacket). Includes 56 lavish color plates and 100 line drawings in text. Over 1,700 species are documented within. Octavo bound in green cloth boards with white title to spine. Clean and bright. Top edge of textblock has light soil. Minor wear to edgse of boards. In white illustrated dust jacket with green title to spine and front panels. Light rubbing to jacket and a few light spots of foxing. 836 pages. NAT/061322.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
• Editore: Princeton University Press, Princeton
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691083711
• ISBN 13: 9780691083711
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Nature
  • Birds

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Riassunto

Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in the country itself. The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume. Fifty-six lavish color plates, thirteen halftone plates, and ninety-nine line drawings in the text illustrate over 85% of the species, including most of the resident birds. Notes on the facing-page of each place, and range maps of 1,475 species, facilitate identification.

Written with the field observer in mind, the text gives special attention to comparisons of similar species, transcriptions of voices, and comments on behavior, status, and habitat. It also provides ranges, breeding data, and references. Notes outline taxonomic problems and briefly describe species that eventually may be found in Colombia. Introductory chapters and photographs highlight Colombia's geography, climate, and vegetation, and discuss migration and conservation questions, and the history of Colombian ornithology. Appendices contain a large bibliography, a section on birding locations, and coverage of two of Colombia's far-flung island territories, Isla San Andrés and Providencia. Maps depicting vegetation zones, political boundaries, national parks, and the most text localities are included.

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"A new standard has been set for South American field guides by this book. Hilty and Brown have done an extraordinary job compiling comprehensive information on the approximately 1,700 bird species found in Colombia."--The Quarterly Review of Biology