Guy Dutson

Field guide to Birds of Melanesia (eBook, PDF)

Bismarcks, Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408152461
• Artikelnr.: 39452057

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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