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Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: v. 2 (Plates and Maps)
Cemencia Rodner et al: Buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
- The most important book to be published about South American birds for years. It features ALL the 2308 bird species of Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Trinidad & Tobago plus their ranges were they overlap into the Amazon Basin, thus becoming one of the few guides that illustrates many of the birds of Northern Brazil. This volume features all the illustrations (including known sub-species) and maps. (656 pages)
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Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide: v. 1 (Species accounts)
Cemencia Rodner et al: Buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
- The sister volume to the above fieldguide featuring the species accounts for all the birds. (880 pages)
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Birds of Venezuela
Steven Hilty: Buy from Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk
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This book is
the second best available guide to Suriname, with over 1300
species illustrated and expertly described. Accurate
range maps are complemented by detailed notes on identification,
similar species, voice, behavior, status and habitat.
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The Sibley Guide to Birds (Audubon
Society Nature Guides Ser.)
David Allen Sibley: Buy from Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk
- David Sibley's new field guide to
the birds of North America renders all the existing guides
obsolete at one stroke. The book itself is beautifully produced
and crafted - the sort of book that gives pleasure just
in the handling of it.
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The Birds of South America Vol 1: The Oscine
Passerines
Robert S. Ridgely, Guy Tudor, Russell E.
Train: Buy from Amazon.co.uk
- This volume, first in a series of four,
outlines the habitat, range, habits and voices of the songbirds
in South America. It starts from a museum approach and then examines
specimens of each subspecies, comparing them visually. This is
the first time that the birds of South America have been described
in a single, published source.
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals
Louise H. Emmons, Francois Feer (Illustrator):
Buy from Amazon.com
or Amazon.co.uk
- A field guide to the marvellously diverse
creatures of the rainforest, this book includes information on
226 species. It identifies characteristics, similar species, vocalization,
behaviour and natural history, geographic range, conservation
status, local names and literature references.
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