Birds of New Guinea Second edition

Beehler, Bruce McP

ISBN 10: 0691095639 / ISBN 13: 9780691095639

Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr, 2014

2nd edition. 528 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0691095639

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This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as an exceptionally diverse assemblage of songbirds such as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Birds of New Guinea is the only guide to cover all 780 bird species reported in the area, including 366 endemics. Expanding its coverage with 111 vibrant color plates--twice as many as the first edition--and the addition of 635 range maps, the book also contains updated species accounts with new information about identification, voice, habits, and range.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Thane K. Pratt is wildlife biologist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey's Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center and a conservationist of birds of the tropical Pacific. He is the lead editor of Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds. Bruce M. Beehler is an ornithologist in the Division of Birds at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and a tropical ecologist with interests in the birds and rainforests of the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Birds of New Guinea Second edition
Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Paperback
Illustrator: Anderton, John C.; Kókay, Szabolcs
Zustand: Brand New
Auflage: 2. Auflage