Bird Families of the World

Bird Families of the World

Author: David Ward Winkler

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 9788494189203

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This volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. It distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group, this volume is the best single-volume entry to avian diversity available.


Penguins

Penguins

Author: Julie Murray

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1680796178

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Kids will love reading all about penguins and strengthening their reading skills. Simple text explaining what penguins look like, where they live, and what they like to eat will be alongside colorful full-bleed images. This title is complete with bolded glossary words, a picture glossary, and a More Kinds of Penguins page, which will show a few different penguin species. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.


Toucans, Barbets, and Honeyguides

Toucans, Barbets, and Honeyguides

Author: Lester Short

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-11-08

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780198546665

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This book covers in unmatched detail the life history, relationships, biology, and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. These number 133 species, found in tropical regions around the world. The toucans are especially well-known because of their dramatic bills and their association with the Amazon rainforest. The colour plates, painted by well- known US artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced.


Nightjars and Their Allies

Nightjars and Their Allies

Author: D.T. Holyoak

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-07-19

Total Pages: 864

ISBN-13: 9780198549871

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"All the species are illustrated in 23 colour plates painted by Martin Woodcock. He has also contributed text drawings that illustrate behaviour and other features."--BOOK JACKET.


Ratites and Tinamous

Ratites and Tinamous

Author: S. J. J. F. Davies

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780198549963

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The book contains a complete description of the natural history and biology of the Ratites and Tinamous - the group of flightless birds that includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis. Each species is treated in turn, with seven general introductory chapters and full colour illustrations of all 55 species, as well as over 50 line drawings. The author has spent 25 years research on the ratites and has drawn together the extensive and often inaccessible literature on the groups.


Birds of Paradise

Birds of Paradise

Author: Clifford B. Frith

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1998-07-09

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9780198548539

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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.


Birds of the World

Birds of the World

Author: Les Beletsky

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780801884290

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This stunning collection of art and text captures the grace, beauty, and flamboyance of the world's birds. It features more than 1,600 original paintings from 11 of the world's leading bird artists.


The Handbook of Bird Families

The Handbook of Bird Families

Author: Jonathan Elphick

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780565093785

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What's the difference between a swallow and a swift? How many species of ducks, penguins, owls or thrushes are there? Which is the rarest parrot or the most endangered hummingbird? What do toucans eat? Discover all the key facts about the world's orders and families of birds with this ultimate handbook. Expert ornithologist Jonathan Elphick provides a comprehensive survey of every one of the 36 orders and 234 families of birds, revealing their remarkable diversity, appearance, behaviour and lifestyle. With clear, lively text, informative fact boxes that include the latest research and data, and special photography from award-winning wildlife photographers such as David Tipling, The Handbook of Bird Families belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in birds.