This guide illustrates and describes almost every non-passerine species of bird in South America. Featuring 1273 species, it gives information on key identification features, habitat, and songs and calls. All plumages for each species are also illustrated.
Perhaps most important, they combine this review and analysis with extensive field observations to give an accurate, incisive portrait of the birds in nature.
Mostly 1250–2100 m. ... Mostly below 700 m, but to 1500 m on tepui slopes. ... in dense growth, and thus often harder to see; mist-netting can re- veal it to be numerous, and it can persist even in small forest fragments.
Covers more than a thousand species. Accompanying text is full of facts.
"Birds of South America Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers features: first guide to nearly 1,300 species of non-passerines in South America; easy-to-use format; complements volumes on passerine birds; contains key identification features; ...
This comprehensive field guide covers all of the species recorded in Chile, including vagrants; all are illustrated in superb detail, and feature every major plumage variation.
A field guide covering approximately 820 species of birds found in Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras PETERSON The best-selling field guides of all time This field guide to the birds of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras ...
The remaining volumes of The Birds of South America will be: Volume III: The Nonpasserines (Landbirds) Volume IV: The Nonpasserines (Waterbirds) No release date has been set for the remaining volumes.
The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume.
Banks, R.C., C. Cicero, J.L. Dunn, A.W. Kratter, P.C. Rasmussen, J.V. Remsen, J.D. Rising, & D.F. Stotz. 2002. Forty-third supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. Auk 118: 897–906.
This authoritative book includes 199 stunning colour plates, depicting every species and many distinct plumages and subspecies, including 28 endemics and 17 near-endemics.