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BIRD BOOKS - WORLD
| James F. Clements. The Clements Checklist of
Birds of the World. 855 pages. 6th edition. Cornell
University Press 2006.
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| Frank Gill & Minturn Wright. Birds of the
World: Recommended English Names. Includes a CD-ROM with the
names in Excel files. 272 pages. 2006. Princeton University
Press:
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 Josep
Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal & David Christie (eds.)
Handbook of Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions. Whenever I
take a volume off the shelf to look up something, I invariably
spend an hour or more reading the species accounts and looking
at the color plates and photos. Very high quality in all
respects and much easier to use than most encyclopedic bird
books.Volume 11:
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CA (2006).
Volume 10:
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CA (2005).
Volume 9:
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Conclusion of the suboscine passerines. 2004.
Volume 8:
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The best volume yet, with superb coverage of the suboscine
passerines. 2003.
Volume 7:
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Opens with a special, well-illustrated section on extinct birds.
The species covered in this volume include woodpeckers, barbets,
toucans and honeyguides. May 2002.
Volume 6:
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Of the same high quality as prior volumes. Authors & artists
include: Hornbills: Alan Kemp/Tim Worfolk; Kingfishers: Peter
Woodall/Tim Worfolk & Norman Arlott; Trogons: Nigel
Collar/Richard Allen & Francese Jutglar; Bee-eaters: Hilary
Fry/Chris Rose; Rollers: Hilary Fry/Jan Wilczur; Motmots: David
Snow/Douglas Pratt. March 2001.
Vol 5 (1999):
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Vol 4 (1997):
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Vol 3 (1996):
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Vol 2 (1994):
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Vol 1 (1992):
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| Threatened Birds of the World. The
official source for birds on the IUCN Red List. Allison J.
Stattersfield & David R. Capper, Project managers & senior
editors. Guy C.L. Dutson, Michael I. Evans, Rachel K. McClellan,
Nicholas B. Peet, Sue M. Shutes, Thomas E.H. Stuart, Joe A.
Tobias & David C. Wege, Additional editors. BirdLife
International and Lynx Edicions. January 2001. 8 1/2" x 12". 852
pages. What an impressive work!
WorldTwitch
Bird Book of the Year - 2001. Illustrations have been
borrowed from the best recent bird books and supplemented with
paintings of birds not otherwise illustrated. Each species
account includes a range map, identification, range and
population, ecology, threats conservation, targets and
references. Some new species are recognized, becoming instant
threatened or endangered species. I find it difficult to put
this book down when I pick it up and start reading. This is a
guide to where you need to go birding - NOW.
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| Edward C. Dickinson (ed.) The Howard and
Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd
edition. 1056 pages. Poyser & Princeton University Press 2003.
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| Tim Westoll. The Complete Illustrated Check
List of the Birds of the World. 784 pages. 367 colour plates
illustrating 10,367 species in thumbnail sketches. Glinger
Publications 1999.
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| David Macdonald (ed.) New Encyclopedia of
Mammals. Larger and more detailed than the massive first
edition. Oxford University Press 2001. 961 pages.
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| Michael Walters. A Concise History of
Ornithology. 256 pages.
Details. Helm & Yale University Press 2003. This is a
delightful reference that succinctly covers key developments in
ornithology up to the beginning of the 20th Century. I
particularly value the reproductions of portraits of many famous
ornithologists after whom birds have been named.
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| Yadvinder Malhi & Oliver Phillips. Tropical
Forests and Global Atmospheric Change. 320 pages. Oxford
University Press 2005.
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| Mark Pagel (ed. in chief). The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Evolution. 2 volumes. 992 pages. 370
original articles by 275 distinguished contributors. Oxford
University Press 2002.
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| Andrew Goudie (ed. in chief). The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental change and human
society. 2 volumes. 1,440 pages. 300+ original articles.
Oxford University Press 2001.
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| David Quammem. The Song of the Dodo: Island
Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. Pimlico & Touchstone
Books 1997.
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| John Terborgh. Requiem for Nature. 248
pages. Shearwater Books, 1999.
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| Robert A. Fimbel, Alejandro Grajal & John G.
Robinson (eds.) The Cutting Edge. The effects of logging
on wildlife. 832 pages. Columbia University Press. 2001.
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| Margaret D. Lowman & Nalini M. Nadkarni (eds.)
Forest Canopies. 626 pages. Academic Press 1995.
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| Robert Nowak (ed.) Walker's Mammals of the
World. 6th edition, 1999. 2 volumes. 2160 pages. Johns
Hopkins University Press.
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Other bird family & world bird books are listed on these pages:
A&C Black
New |
A&C
Black Forthcoming |
A&C
Black Recent | Oxford
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Princeton |
Cornell |
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