Author: Per Alström
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135701
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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Pipits and Wagtails is the first comprehensive guide to all the species and subspecies that occur in Europe, Asia, North Africa and North America. The detailed species accounts cover all aspects of identification (size, structure, plumage, bare parts, geographical variation, behaviour, distribution, and habitat.) In particular, great care has been taken to illustrate and describe accurately the differences between all valid subspecies as well as differences relating to sex and age. There are 30 full colour plates and a number of plate parts that depict all the species and distinct subspecies in different plumages, and to help further with identification, there are almost 250 colour photographs, numerous line drawings, sonograms of the species' and subspecies' unique songs and calls, and colour distribution maps for each species (with the range of subspecies marked). Systematics are also discussed in great detail. Introductory chapters deal with identification, moult, ageing and sexing in general, species concepts, nomenclature, and phylogenetic analyses. The unparalleled extent to which the authors - the world's two leading authorities in the field - have gone to cover all aspects of identification and systematics, including doing a complete taxonomic review, ensures that this is the ultimate reference guide for anyone interested in this group of birds.
Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486210858
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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'Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1950 as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum bulletin 197.'
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Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Author: F.O. Morris
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472986547
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, hundreds of informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This fourth volume in the series deals comprehensively with broadbills, pittas, larks, swallows and martins, wagtails, pipits and longclaws, cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, waxwings, dippers, wrens, accentors, and chats. The editors and artists have worked closely with other authors - all acknowledged experts in their field - to produce a superb reference in which comprehensive texts on every species are complemented by accurate and detailed paintings and drawings of the birds themselves.
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Author: William Dwight Whitney
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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