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Members of nearly all the families of South American birds can be found on the two beautiful West Indian islands of Trinidad and Tobago, where the pleasant climate, varied habitat, and avian diversity create a birder's paradise. This easy-to-use book is the third edition of a comprehensive yet compact field guide to all 477 species of the islands' birds, including 35 new species accounts added to the country’s bird list since the last edition. Richard ffrench’s work has been a bible to birders since the appearance of the first edition in 1973. This new edition incorporates five decades of his notes and records of the island’s birds to present in a handy and readable form detailed and comprehensive information about the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. Showcasing 40 all-new color plates by the very best bird artists working under the direction of John P. O’Neill, the third edition now includes illustrations of not only the islands’ endemic and resident species, but also the many migratory species that visit the islands from both the north and the south. The taxonomic arrangement and treatment of families and species has also been brought in line with the most recent determinations of the A.O.U. Committee on Nomenclature for a thoroughly up-to-date presentation. In his introduction, Richard ffrench offers a full treatment of the history of ornithology in Trinidad and Tobago and sets the scene by describing the islands’ physiography, climate, and vegetation. Individual species accounts, arranged by family, make up the core of this identification guide. The accounts cover habitat and status, range and subspecies, field description and basic measurements, voice, food, nesting, and behavior. Richard ffrench’s summary of the distribution of species and their breeding and migration, as well as local conservation and protection measures, makes this volume much more than a typical field-guide treatment, and invites visitors to this premier ecotourism destination.
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This new edition is based on 50 years of the late Richard ffrench's notes and records of the island's birds, with up-to-date taxonomy. It retains the format of the earlier edition, with the color plates in the center of the book, but adds illustrations of migratory species. All-new color plates by John P. O'Neill, John Anderton, Dale Dyer, and John Schmitt, with additional works by Debby Kaspari and Barry Van Dusen. Individual species accounts cover habitat and status, range and subspecies, description, measurements, voice, food, nesting, and behavior, plus notes. The introduction covers the history of ornithology in Trinidad and Tobago, the environment, ecology and distribution of species, breeding, migration, and conservation. The appendix includes a complete species checklist, with locations of collected specimens, and the book concludes with a bibliography, and an index of scientific names and of common names.
PRODUCT DETAILS:
ISBN:
9780801473647
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Year of Publication:
2012
Page Count:
407
Shipping Weight: 1.75 pounds
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