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Princeton University Press Bird Books - Recent & Forthcoming
[Princeton
Bird Books, 1998-2002]
[Princeton Bird
Books Published before 1998]
 Mark
Pearman. Birds of
Argentina and the South-west Atlantic (2-volume set).
Forthcoming 2018. Helm:
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| Kevin Zimmer & Andrew Whittaker.
Birds of Brazil (2-volume set). Princeton University
Press (Forthcoming 2018). ("Forthcoming" dates are
speculative, especially if more than a few months in the
future.)
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| H. Douglas Pratt. Birds of
Hawaii & Micronesia. Princeton University Press
(Forthcoming 2022?).
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| Carla M. Penz. Heliconius Butterflies and
Their Relatives. Interesting family of slow-flying
Neotropical butterflies whose larvae feed on highly toxic
passion vines and which are often confused with numerous mimics.
Princeton University Press. Forthcoming 2017?
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 Nick Athamas & Paul Greenfield. Birds of
Western Ecuador, A Photographic Guide.
Princeton University Press 2016.
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 Bruce M. Beeler & Thane K. Pratt.
Birds of New Guinea - Distribution, Taxonomy &
Systematics. Princeton University Press (March
2016).
Details. 672 pages. Ground breaking reference work
on the birds of New Guinea. Get the Kindle edition and take it
along on your tablet.
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 Peter Hancock & Ingrid Weiersbye.
Birds of Botswana. Princeton University
Press (November 2015).
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  Ber van Perlo. Birds of South America - Passerines.
(August 2015).
Details.
HarperCollins & Princeton University Press. Collins:
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Princeton University Press:
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 Nik Borrow & Ron Demey. Birds
of Western Africa - Second Edition.
(August 2014).
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 Thane K. Pratt & Bruce M. Beehler.
Illustrated by John C. Anderton & Szabolcs Kókay.
Birds of New Guinea - Second Edition.
Princeton University Press (October 2014).
Details. The
greatest improvement I've ever seen in a field guide authored by the
same people responsible for the first edition,
reflecting all that has been learned since the first
edition came out. Birding in New Guinea is much more
difficult than birding in Southeast Asia and vastly more
difficult than birding in Central and South America.
With this great field guide and available sound
recordings, you have the best chance ever to identify
the birds that you may glimpse as they take cover at the
approach of people. Be sure to study and bring along the
Kindle version of the same authors' great new reference
book on the Birds of New Guinea. Kindle:
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 Quentin
Phillips & Karen Phillips. Phillips' Field Guide
to the Birds of Borneo - Third Edition.
(February 2014).
Details. John Beaufoy Publishing:
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Princeton University Press:
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 Steve
N.G. Howell. Rare Birds of North America.
Princeton University Press (February 2014).
Details.
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 Ian Campbell, Sam Woods & Nick Leseberg.
Birds of Australia: A Photographic Guide.
Princeton University Press (November 2014).
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 Tim
Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny & Bob Montgomerie. Ten Thousand
Birds - Ornithology Since Darwin. Princeton University
Press 2014.
Details.
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 Tom
Stephenson & Scott Whittle. The Warbler Guide.
Princeton University Press (July 2013).
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 Richard
Crossley & Dominic Couzens. The Crossley ID
Guide - Britain & Ireland. Princeton University
Press (October 2013).
Details.
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 Raffael Ayé,
Manuel Schweizer & Tobias Roth. Birds of Central Asia/strong>.
(October 2012). Covers Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan & Afghanistan.
Details. Helm:
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  Bart
de Boer, Eric Newton & Robin L. Restall. Birds of Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao.
(March 2012).
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  Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp & Tim
Inskipp. Birds of the Indian Subcontinent -
Second Edition. (January 2012).
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 Steve
N.G. Howell. Petrels, Albatrosses & Storm-Petrels of North
America - A Photographic Guide.
Details. Princeton University Press 2012. xxiii + 483 pages, 975 photos
and figures, 66 maps. Book:
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This is the finest identification guide to pelagic birds
published to date. For the first time, everything you need to
prepare for tubenose ID on both east and west coast pelagic
trips is accessible in one volume. It's also an authoritative
and well-written text on tubenose biology. The book is extremely well-organized to help
the user zero in on critical marks. Thus, for example, the
section on Pacific gadfly petrels is introduced by five pages of
photos and accompanying text showing and comparing the 10
species most likely to be encountered. Following are subsections
on each species with comparative photos, including species not
yet recorded but which may occur. For Cook's
Petrel, there five pages of photos, with comparative shots of De
Filippi's Petrel, Black-winged Petrel, and Pycroft's Petrel.
Without question, a 2012 WorldTwitch Best Bird Book award
winner.
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 Guy
M. Kirwan & Graeme Green. Cotingas & Manakins. Christopher Helm &
Princeton University Press. November 2011.
Details.
624 pages, 34 color
plates by Eustace Barnes. This is a superb monograph, but too
heavy to take on foreign trips. A Kindle edition would
be greatly appreciated. Helm:
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Princeton University Press:
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 Nigel Robson, Terry Stevenson & John
Fanshawe. Birds of the Horn of Africa - Second
Edition. Helm & Princeton University Press
(November 2011). Covers Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti,
Somalia and the Socotra archipelago.
Details. Helm:
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Princeton University Press
(2016, but same book):
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 William
J. Boyle, Jr. Kevin T. Karlson, photographic editor. The
Birds of New Jersey: Status & Distribution.
Princeton University Press (May 2011).
Details.
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  Ian
Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Warwick Tarboton & Peter Ryan.
Birds of Southern Africa. Struik &
Princeton University Press. Fourth edition, 2011.
Details.
448 pages, 213 pages.
Struik was acquired by Penguin
Random House in 2013. Struik:
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2014):
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 Richard
Crossley.
The Crossley ID Guide - Eastern Birds. Princeton University
Press 2011.
Details.
544 pages, 10,000+ color photos. The Crossley guide is a
valuable resource and a bargain considering the number
and quality of the photos. However, the fake photos of
birds plugged into habitat backgrounds only diminish the
attractiveness and utility of the book. Natural photos
would have been a much better choice. Book:
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 Richard Porter & Simon Aspinall. Birds of the Middle East
- Second Edition.
Illustrated by John Gale, Mike Langman & Brian Small. 400 pages,
176 color plates. Christopher Helm and Princeton University Press.
(August 2010). Details.
Helm:
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 Ken
Simpson & Nicolas Day. Field Guide to the Birds of Australia.
Penguin Books Australia & Princeton University Press.
8th edition 2010.
Details.
WorldTwitch 2004 Best Bird Book - Australasia (7th
edition). 392
pages. 132 color plates including 16 new or revised plates.
Revised distribution maps with all subspecies shown. The field
guide for those with a large pocket. This book is smaller,
lighter and more portable than the large format guides by
Morcombe and Pizzey & Knight, but the plates are much better
than Slater's. In the 7th edition, the Handbook section at the
end was condensed by more than 50 pages, saving additional
weight without loss of field utility.
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 Nigel
Cleere. Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird &
Owlet-Nightjars of the World.
464 pages, 580+ color plates. WildGuides UK and Princeton University Press, 2010.
Details.
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  Joseph
Forshaw. Illustrated by Frank Knight. Parrots of the
World. Helm & Princeton University Press (October 2010).
Details. Kindle:
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Helm:
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Princeton University Press:
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  Collins Bird Guide (Birds of Europe)
- Second Edition. HarperCollins & Princeton University Press.
Second edition, 2010. [Online
index] The work of both artists, Killian Mullarney and Dan
Zetterström, is equally impressive, and great care has been
taken to present a vast amount of material in a compact field
guide. I consider this to be the world's finest field guide.
Details.
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Large format second edition, HarperCollins 2011.
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 Thomas
S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P.
O'Neill & Theodore A. Parker III. Birds of Peru.
Superb field guide that crams a tremendous amount of
useful information into 656 pages. For best results,
scan your heavy, more comprehensive books and carry your
entire library to Peru in a 10" tablet. Princeton
University Press, October 2007. Reprinted with updates
and corrections 2010.
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 Joseph
M. Forshaw. Illustrations by Albert Earl Gilbert.
Trogons - A Natural History of the Trogonidae. Lynx
Edicions & Princeton
University Press, 2009.
Details.
304 pages. Lynx Edicions:
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Princeton University Press:
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  Mark Brazil. Birds of East Asia:
Eastern China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Eastern Russia.
Helm & Princeton University Press (December 2008).
Details. Helm:
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2006-2007 Releases
| Norman Arlott. Collins Field Guide - Birds -
Palearctic: Passerines. (US title: Birds of Europe,
Russia, China & Japan - Passerines: Tyrant Flycatchers to
Buntings). 384 pages. HarperCollins & Princeton University
Press 2007. Princeton:
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 Ber
van Perlo. Birds of Mexico and Central America. The color
plates in this illustrated checklist are excellent and at least
comparable in quality to the illustrations in Perlo's Birds
of Western Africa. This small paperback can be carried at
times and in places where birders might leave behind the
detailed but heavier guides by Howell & Webb, Stiles and
Ridgely. It's also a very convenient study guide and includes
illustrations of migrants and hypothetical species. (2006). 336
pages. 98 color plates illustrating more than 1,500 species.
Princeton University Press:
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 Francisco
Erize & Jorge R. Rodríguez Mata & Maurice Rumboll. Birds of
South America: Non-passerines - an Illustrated Checklist.
376 pages. 156 color plates illustrating nearly 1,300 species.
The fine plates that Jorge Mata worked on during a year in New
York in the 1970s finally are going to be published. 384 pages.
October 2006. Princeton University Press:
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 Joseph
Forshaw. Parrots of the World: An Identification Guide.
Illustrated by Frank Knight, whose field guide illustrations of
Australian birds and mammals are the finest ever done. Princeton
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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 Stephen
Message & Don Taylor. Shorebirds of North America, Europe and
Asia: A Guide to Field Identification. 240 pages. 80 color
plates. Princeton University Press 2006.
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CA
 Waders
of Europe, Asia and North America. Helm 2005. (Same book,
different cover.)
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 James
Ferguson-Lees & David A. Christie. Illustrated by Kim Franklin,
David Mead & Philip Burton. Raptors of the World: A Field
Guide. 320 pages. 2006. Compact version of the 2000
handbook, with new plates by Alan Harris and updated taxonomy.
The 992-page handbook was full of mistakes and did not appear to
have been reviewed by a raptor expert. Hopefully this version
will be much better. Princeton University Press:
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| David Beadle & James D. Rising. Tanagers,
Cardinals and Finches of the United States and Canada: The
Identification Guide. Princeton University Press 2006.
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David R. Wells. The Birds of the Thai-Malay
Peninsula. Volume 2: Passerines. A&C Black and Princeton
University Press 2006. Volume 1 is the definitive work on the
Malaysian Non-Passerines.
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2-volume set:
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 Paul
Schofield & Derek Onley. Albatrosses, Petrels & Shearwaters
of the World. 224 pages. 40 color plates by Christopher
Schmidt. Helm & Princeton University Press 2006.
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| Jeffrey V. Wells. Conservation Handbook of
Birds of North America: 100 North American Birds at Risk.
Princeton University Press 2007.
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2005 Releases
 Rick
Cech and Guy Tudor. Butterflies of the East Coast: An
Observer's Guide. Princeton University Press 2005. 336
pages.
Special WorldTwitch Award - Best Butterfly Book to Date.
234 full-page species accounts and accompanying range maps. 735
color photos of butterflies and caterpillars. 215 photos of
individual host plants and habitats. Covers the eastern US &
Canada.
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 Craig
Robson. Birds of Southeast Asia. 304 pages. New Holland &
Princeton University Press 2005. Updated, much improved field
guide edition. Illustrations have been rearranged on 142 color
plates facing text, depicting 28 additional species and with 140
improved or corrected illustrations.
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 Dennis
R. Paulson. Shorebirds of North and Central America: The
Photographic Guide. 384 pages. Princeton University Press
2005.
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| David L. Wagner. Caterpillars of Eastern
North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History.
Covers more than 700 species of butterflies and moths (a tiny
fraction of the total). 496 pages. Princeton University Press
2005.
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UK |
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| Jerry Liguori. Hawks from Every Angle:
How to identify North American raptors in flight. 160 pages.
Princeton University Press 2005.
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UK |
DE |
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| John C. Abbott. Dragonflies and Damselflies
of Texas and the South-Central United States. 360 pages.
Princeton University Press 2005.
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2004 Releases
 Sandy
Podulka, Ronald W. Rohrbaugh, Jr., and Rick Bonney (eds.)
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Handbook of Bird Biology.
1248 pages.
WorldTwitch 2004 Best Ornithology Book. Princeton
University Press. 2d edition, 2004.
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G. Stuart Keith, Emil Urban, Hilary Fry,
et al. The Birds of Africa. A&C Black and Princeton
University Press. Essential reference!
Vol 7 (2004):
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Vol 5 (1997):
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| Noel F.R. Snyder. The Carolina Parakeet:
Glimpses of a Vanished Bird. Princeton University Press
2004.
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| Christopher W. Leahy. The Birdwatcher's
Companion to North American Birdlife. 960 pages. Princeton
University Press. Revised edition, 2004.
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| Nathan P. Smith, Scott A. Mori, Andrew
Henderson, Dennis W. Stevenson & Scott V. Heald (eds.)
Flowering Plants of the Neotropics. 616 pages. Princeton
University Press 2004.
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2003 Releases
| Ian Sinclair &
Pete Ryan. Assisted by Patrice Christy & Phil Hockey. Birds
of Africa South of the Sahara: A complete illustrated field
guide to the birds south of the Sahara. Illustrated by
Norman Arlott, Peter Hayman & Alan Harris. Struik & Princeton
University Press 2003.
Details. 760 pages. Covers 2105 species with more than 2000
images on 359 plates. The illustrations of southern birds are
borrowed from the latest SASOL guide.
WorldTwitch 2003 Best Bird Book - Africa. For home
study, it provides instant access to all African species, with
acceptable to excellent color plates, range maps, and essential
text. In the field, it fills in the many gaps between the
regions with fine modern field guides. Recommended by Jon
Hornbuckle for use in Zambia.
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| Alvaro Jaramillo. Birds
of Chile. Illustrated by David Beadle and Peter Burke.
WorldTwitch 2003 Best Bird Book - South America. 240
pages, 96 color plates. Helm & Princeton University Press 2003.
The best field guide thus far to the birds of southern South
America.
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UK |
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CA |
| Richard Grimmett & Tim Inskipp. Birds
of Northern India. Helm & Princeton University Press 2003.
WorldTwitch 2003 Best Bird Book - Asia. Regional
guide to Northern India extracted from the authors' huge
subcontinent guide. 320 pages. Much easier to use in the field
than the larger book, with enlarged color illustrations.
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UK |
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CA |
Herbert Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando
Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele. Birds of the West
Indies. 216 pages, 94 color plates. Reduced and rearranged
field guide largely extracted from the authors' larger 1998
guide, with many new and improved illustrations. Repeats the
mistaken claim that both tremblers on St. Lucia and Martinique.
(See Storer 1989). I also question the continuing claim that
Bridled Quail-Dove and Key West Quail-Dove both occur
sympatrically on Puerto Rico.
WorldTwitch 2003 Best Bird Book - West Indies. Helm &
Princeton University Press 2003.
Kindle:
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| Per Alström & Krister
Mild. Illustrated by Per Alstöm & Bill Zetterström. Pipits
and Wagtails (of Europe, Asia & North America). 496 pages,
30 superb color plates, 240 color photographs, 298 sonograms, 36
maps, 89 text figures. One of the finest of the bird families
books. Includes color illustrations and photographs of the
newly-described Mekong Wagtail.
WorldTwitch 2003 Best Bird Family Book. Helm & Princeton
University Press 2003.
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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.
US |
UK |
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| Steve N.G. Howell. Hummingbirds of
North America: The Photographic Guide. 219 pages. Poyser
2001 & Princeton University Press 2003.
WorldTwitch 2001 Best Bird Book - North America. More
than 200 photos with illustrations of some little-known field
marks. Emphasizes plumages that are difficult to identify.
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| Brian K. Wheeler. Raptors of Western
North America: The Wheeler Guide. Princeton University Press
& Poyser 2003.
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UK |
DE |
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CA |
 Steven
L. Hilty. Birds of Venezuela. Second edition.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - South America. 878
pages. Completely new, except for the color plates by Guy Tudor
and John Gwynne. Authoritative text by Steve Hilty, 31 new color
plates, mostly by John Gwynne and Sophie Webb, and 44 color
photos of habitats. Princeton University Press & Helm. January
2003. Kindle:
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