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A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Ber Van Perlo
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Description for A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, numerous colour plates, maps and illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; PSVW6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1024.
Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and elusive avifauna. Until now. The carefully vetted text and images are the first to cover the full range of bird life in this vast and varied country. The more than 1800 up-to-date accounts treat the Yellow-nosed Albatross to the Sombre Hummingbird, the Ash-throated Gnat-eater to the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Nighthawks and Jacamars to Motmots, Puffbirds, and Peppershrikes. They are all here--every species and many subspecies found in each region of Brazil--with special attention given ... Read more
Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and elusive avifauna. Until now. The carefully vetted text and images are the first to cover the full range of bird life in this vast and varied country. The more than 1800 up-to-date accounts treat the Yellow-nosed Albatross to the Sombre Hummingbird, the Ash-throated Gnat-eater to the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Nighthawks and Jacamars to Motmots, Puffbirds, and Peppershrikes. They are all here--every species and many subspecies found in each region of Brazil--with special attention given ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195301557
SKU
V9780195301557
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-4
About Ber Van Perlo
Ber van Perlo is the author and illustrator of numerous popular field guides including Birds of Eastern Africa, Birds of Southern Africa, Birds of Western and Central Africa, and Birds of Mexico and Central America. Until 1991 he worked as a geographer and physical planner for the Dutch National Forest Service.
Reviews for A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
"Van Perlo's book can be considered the best bird field guide produced so far for Brazil due to a combination of its light weight and small size, thorough coverage of species, and generally good quality and useful plates, text, and range maps."
The Quarterly Review of Biology "This latest publication of a field guide to Brazilian birds moves the bar a ... Read more
The Quarterly Review of Biology "This latest publication of a field guide to Brazilian birds moves the bar a ... Read more