Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae
- ISBN-10
- 0198548532
- ISBN-13
- 9780198548539
- Series
- Birds of Paradise
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 676
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-07-09
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Authors
- Bruce M. Beehler, Clifford B. Frith
Description
Birds of paradise have long played a central part in human mythologies and captured the imagination of collectors, scientists, and naturalists - and fashion designers. Birds of Paradise provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, and scientifically accurate overview of the behaviour, biology, ecology, biogeography, and history of the most ornate and dramatic group of birds on earth. The book is illustrated by 12 superb, specially commissioned colour plates including all 42 species of birds of paradise, original line drawings of many behaviours never before recorded, maps, graphs, sonograms, and photographs. This stunning book will delight ornithologists and naturalists the world over.
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