By Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt
Contributor note: Illustrated via John C. Anderton, Szabolcs Kokay
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This is the thoroughly revised edition of the fundamental box consultant to the birds of recent Guinea. The world's biggest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a outstanding avifauna characterised via cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, in addition to an incredibly different assemblage of songbirds similar to the enduring birds of paradise and bowerbirds.
Birds of recent Guinea is the single advisor to hide all 780 chicken species said within the quarter, together with 366 endemics. increasing its insurance with 111 bright colour plates--twice as many because the first edition--and the addition of 635 diversity maps, the e-book additionally comprises up to date species bills with new information regarding id, voice, behavior, and diversity. vital for everybody from ecotourists to box researchers, Birds of recent Guinea continues to be an necessary consultant to the varied birds of this awesome region.
• 780 poultry species, together with 366 stumbled on nowhere else
• 111 wonderful colour plates, two times the variety of the 1st edition
• elevated and up-to-date species money owed supply info on identity, voice, behavior, and range
• 635 diversity maps
• Revised class of birds displays the newest study