Field guide to Birds of Melanesia - Guy Dutson

Field guide to Birds of Melanesia

Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia

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Buch | Softcover
448 Seiten
2011
Helm (Verlag)
978-0-7136-6540-6 (ISBN)
56,10 inkl. MwSt
The perfect guide to the birds of Melanesia - New Caledonia, the Solomons, the Bismarcks and Vanuatu.

Written by leading ornithologist Guy Dutson, this Helm Field Guide covers the species-rich Melanesia region of the south-west Pacific, from New Caledonia and the Solomons through the Bismarcks to Vanuatu. This is an increasingly popular destination for tours and travellers, and one that has never before had complete field-guide coverage.

For anyone travelling to this Pacific region, this book is an indispensable birdwatching guide. Species accounts include 650 superb illustrations allied with concise written information to aid quick and accurate identification. The cover star is the Kagu, the region's most iconic bird species and a highly sought-after endemic of New Caledonia.

Guy Dutson is an ornithologist and tour-leader, and is the world's leading authority on the birds of the south-west Pacific, a region in which he has described or rediscovered several species. He has led expeditions to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, in the course of which he rediscovered the Superb Pitta on Manus. Expeditions to Indonesia and the Philippines led to the rediscovery of the Tanahjampea Monarch and the find for which he is perhaps best known, the Cebu Flowerpecker. In 2008 Dutson described a new species, the Vanikoro White-eye.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Melanesian Ornithology
Birdwatching in Melanesia
Conservation
Using the Plates and Species Texts
Island Groups of Melanesia

Checklist of the Birds of Melanesia
Colour Plates (1-86)
Species Accounts
Gazetteer
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.10.2011
Reihe/Serie Helm Field Guides
Zusatzinfo 72 colour plates
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 965 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturführer
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-7136-6540-8 / 0713665408
ISBN-13 978-0-7136-6540-6 / 9780713665406
Zustand Neuware
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