A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil

Ber Van Perlo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530155-7 (ISBN)

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This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, featuring 187 beautifully drawn full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each species. The volume contains information on bird features, habitat, calls, and species distribution, and pays special attention to the species endemic to Brazil. Species names are given in both English and Portuguese, and frequently used terms are translated in an appendix.

Ber Van Perlo graduated from the Agricultural University of Wageningen and worked as a geographer and physical planner for the Dutch National Forest Service until 1991. He has a lifelong interest in birds and has published and/or illustrated 7 titles on bird identification. Books by the Same Author: Birds of Eastern Africa Birds of Southern Africa Birds of Western and Central Africa Birds of Mexico and Central America Illustrated The Megapodes Rails Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

LIST OF PLATES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 BRAZIL: THE AREA COVERED; 2 BRAZIL: THE BIRDS; SYMBOLS, ABBREVIATIONS, AND GLOSSARY; PARTS OF A BIRD; SPECIES ACCOUNTS, PLATES, AND DISTRIBUTION MAPS; PROTECTED AREAS OF BRAZIL; NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER REFERENCES; APPENDIX 1: THE ENDEMICS OF BRAZIL; APPENDIX 2: ENGLISH-PORTUGUESE DICTIONARY; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2009
Zusatzinfo	187 color plates, 1,791 distribution maps, 5 black and white line illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 236 mm
Gewicht	1025 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-530155-2 / 0195301552
ISBN-13	978-0-19-530155-7 / 9780195301557
Zustand	Neuware