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CORACIFORMES
KINGFISHERS, HORNBILLS, AND RELATED BIRDS

The titles listed under these headings are BRAND NEW books listed alphabetically by author.
Price is for the cloth (hardback) edition unless indicated otherwise. Buteo Books makes
every effort to keep these titles in stock, but both price and availability are subject to change.

DEL HOYO, Josep, Andrew ELLIOTT, and Jordi SARGATAL, Editors. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 6: Mousebirds to Hornbills. Mousebirds, Trogons, Kingfishers, Todies, Motmots, Bee-eaters, Rollers, Ground-rollers, Cuckoo-rollers, Hoopoes, Wood-hoopoes, Hornbills. 2001. The most complete natural history information available, heavily illustrated with spectacular color photos and color plates. 589 pp. $250.00

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1201. FRY, C.H. The Bee-eaters. Buteo Books, 1984. 42 species and sub-species. 8 color plates, drawings by John BUSBY, maps. 304 pp. List Price - $47.50; On Sale for $9.95

1202. FRY, C. Hilary and Kathie. Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers: A Handbook. Princeton, 1992. Color plates by Alan HARRIS. 324 pp. Cloth - $79.50

1203. HOLLANDS, David. Kingfishers and Kookaburras: Jewels of the Australian Bush. Sydney: Reed New Holland, 1999. Color photos by the author. 132 pp. $29.95

1204. KEPLER, Angela. A Comparative Study of Todies. Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 16, 1977. Illustrated. 190 pp. $15.00

KINNAIRD, Margaret F. and Timothy G. O'BRIEN. The Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills: Farmers of the Forest. Chicago University Press, 2008. The evolution, reproduction, feeding ecology, and movement patterns of thirty-one species of Asian Hornbills. Illustrated with maps and color photos. 315 pp. $45.00

1205. POONSWAD, Pilai and Alan C. KEMP. Manual to the Conservation of Asian Hornbills. Bangkok: Hornbill Project, 1993. 24 color plates. Chapters on identification, biology and ecology, and field techniques are followed by a review of the status of hornbill populations in each country. Quarto. 511 pp. $175.00
This volume is a product of the first workshop ever convened to consider the conservation of Asian hornbills and their habitats. Chapters on identification, biology and ecology, and field techniques are followed by a review of the status of hornbill populations in each country.

1206. REMSEN, J. V., Jr. Community Ecology of Neotropical Kingfishers. University of California Publications in Zoology, Volume 124, 1990. 116 pp. Paper. $20.00

1207. TSUJI, Atsuo. Hornbills: Masters of Tropical Forests. Bangkok: Sarakadee Press/Hornbill Research Foundation, 1996. Color photos. 93 pp. $35.00


SINGLE-SPECIES MONOGRAPHS IN THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA SERIES:

84. Belted Kingfisher. Michael J. Hamas. 1994. 16 pp. - $7.50

621. Green Kingfisher. W. Moskoff. 2002. 12 pp. - $7.50

See also the complete Birds of North America list.



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