Raptors of the WorldHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001 - 992 páginas The newest addition to the highly regarded Helm Identification Series, which includes Seabirds ("unparalleled achievement," "best bird guide of any kind or of any generation," "sets the standard of excellence") and Shorebirds ("a superb guide," "a landmark volume"). One of the most eagerly awaited bird books in recent decades, Raptors is the first complete identification guide to all the birds of prey of the world. Each of the 313 species is described thoroughly and accurately, and every plumage and variation is shown in more than two thousand color illustrations plus hundreds of black-and-white drawings. Both large-scale and small-scale range maps show in detail where each species has been found. Like all the other identification guides in the Helm series -- including Seabirds, Shorebirds, Warblers of the Americas, Waterfowl, Woodpeckers, and Sparrows and Buntings -- Raptors is the definitive book on its subject. The birds of prey are arguably the most fascinating group of birds for birders and nonbirders alike, and Raptors will be an essential reference for anyone with an interest in birds. |
Índice
INTRODUCTION | 17 |
USING THIS BOOK | 20 |
ORDERS OF RAPTOR POPULATION SIZES | 26 |
RAPTOR TOPOGRAPHY | 27 |
MEASURING LENGTHS AND WINGSPANS OF RAPTORS | 31 |
SEX AND AGE DIFFERENCES IN SIZES AND SHAPES OF RAPTORS | 35 |
IDENTIFYING RAPTORS | 40 |
RAPTOR MIGRATION | 44 |
RAPTOR VISION HEARING AND OLFACTION | 54 |
RAPTOR PLUMAGES AND EXTERNAL STRUCTURE | 57 |
TAXONOMY SEQUENCE AND NOMENCLATURE OF RAPTORS | 69 |
ENGLISH NAMES OF RAPTORS | 76 |
COLOUR PLATES | 80 |
SYSTEMATIC SECTION | 299 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 916 |
INDEX | 973 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Raptors of the World David A. Christie,James Ferguson-Lees No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Raptors of the World James Ferguson-Lees,David A. Christie No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
abdomen Accipiter Adult female Adult male Africa Afrotropical areas barred Besra bill birds Black Kite blackish breast breeding broad Brown Goshawk browner buff Buteo cere chest collar Common Black Hawk CONFUSION SPECIES coverts cream crest Crested Serpent-eagle crissum dark brown Dark Chanting-goshawk darker Eagle east edges endemic Falcon feathers FIELD CHARACTERS Fish-eagle Flight forest GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION glides Goshawk grey grey-brown greyish HABITAT Harrier Hawk head Honey-buzzard immatures juvenile Kite larger legs less longish mainly Marsh Harrier morph mottled moult nape nest northern Northern Goshawk numbers pairs pale Palearctic paler PERCHED Adult plain Plate plumage population prey primaries quills races range raptors remiges rufous secondaries sedentary Serpent-eagle Shikra short similar slightly smaller soars SOCIOSEXUAL BEHAVIOUR sometimes southern Sparrowhawk still-hunts streaked Sulawesi superspecies tail-band tail-bars tail-tip tarsus Text and map thighs thin throat tips trees underbody usually variably Vulture whitish wing-coverts wing-linings wing-tips wings wingspan yellow
Referencias a este libro
CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses, Second Edition John B. Dunning, Jr. Vista previa restringida - 2007 |