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North American Hummingbirds
George C. West
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Description for North American Hummingbirds
Paperback. Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 389 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 525.
Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. It also provides information on the eight species that have been reported but rarely seen in North America.
On first viewing hummingbirds are often a blur of fast-moving color. However, when they perch and hover they can be observed, and the size, shape, and color; the proportions of the body, bill, throat, and tail; the wing feather pattern; and the birds’ behavior are crucial ... Read more
Designed to help birders and banders identify, age, and sex all seventeen species of hummingbirds found in North America, this is the only identification guide devoted entirely to hummingbirds that includes up-close, easy-to-use illustrations. It also provides information on the eight species that have been reported but rarely seen in North America.
On first viewing hummingbirds are often a blur of fast-moving color. However, when they perch and hover they can be observed, and the size, shape, and color; the proportions of the body, bill, throat, and tail; the wing feather pattern; and the birds’ behavior are crucial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826337672
SKU
V9780826337672
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About George C. West
George C. West is a zoologist who is an expert on the physiology and ecology of birds. He is a professor emeritus of zoophysiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, and the author of more than one hundred scientific papers, as well as the coauthor of Do Hummingbirds Hum? Fascinating Answers to Questions about Hummingbirds and other books. He ... Read more
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