Sunbirds / Helm Identification Guides (ePub)
A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and Sugarbirds of the World
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sunbirds is the first book since the 19th Century to cover in detail all the world's sunbirds and spiderhunters - the Nectarinidae. It also includes the allied families of flowerpeckers and sugarbirds; a total of 176 species is described and...
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Sunbirds is the first book since the 19th Century to cover in detail all the world's sunbirds and spiderhunters - the Nectarinidae. It also includes the allied families of flowerpeckers and sugarbirds; a total of 176 species is described and illustrated.
The book has been designed to help readers identify all of these species and also their various subspecies, the most distinctive of which are illustrated as well as described. Each species account provides a distribution map, a summary of identification criteria and a description of how the species differs from similar ones. The calls and songs, habitat, geographical distribution, status, movements, food (including a list of known food plants), habits, and breeding biology are also described.
Finally, a full description of the species and salient features of each subspecies is given, together with measurements and references. Sunbirds not only aids identification, it provides a wealth of information on the ecology and behaviour of these birds.
The authors have carried out extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. They have also studied skins, nests and eggs held by museums, analysed tape recordings and critically reviewed the vast amount of material contained in books and scientific journals. The superb plates would not have been possible without the exhaustive study of specimens which, together with the use of photographs of living birds, has resulted in the artist, Richard Allen, capturing the essence of the birds, their 'jizz', and accurately portraying the beautiful, bright, often iridescent, plumages of these spectacular families.
The book has been designed to help readers identify all of these species and also their various subspecies, the most distinctive of which are illustrated as well as described. Each species account provides a distribution map, a summary of identification criteria and a description of how the species differs from similar ones. The calls and songs, habitat, geographical distribution, status, movements, food (including a list of known food plants), habits, and breeding biology are also described.
Finally, a full description of the species and salient features of each subspecies is given, together with measurements and references. Sunbirds not only aids identification, it provides a wealth of information on the ecology and behaviour of these birds.
The authors have carried out extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. They have also studied skins, nests and eggs held by museums, analysed tape recordings and critically reviewed the vast amount of material contained in books and scientific journals. The superb plates would not have been possible without the exhaustive study of specimens which, together with the use of photographs of living birds, has resulted in the artist, Richard Allen, capturing the essence of the birds, their 'jizz', and accurately portraying the beautiful, bright, often iridescent, plumages of these spectacular families.
Autoren-Porträt von Clive F. Mann, Robert A. Cheke
The late Clive F. Mann (1942-2022) taught biology in schools in Africa, South-east Asia and England. During the course of extensive fieldwork carried out during long sojourns in the tropics, he studied the population dynamics, breeding cycles, zoogeography and migration of birds, and the subject of his PhD was the taxonomy of passerines. Clive was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a member of the British Ornithologists' Union, and he served for many years on the Committee of the British Ornithologists' Club, becoming its chairman from 2001 to 2005. He was also a trustee of the Trust for Avian Systematics (previously the Trust for Oriental Ornithology) for more than 20 years. He wrote numerous papers in scientific journals, The Birds of Borneo BOU Checklist and was a co-author of the Helm Identification Guide: Cuckoos of the World.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Clive F. Mann , Robert A. Cheke
- 2010, 1. Auflage, 384 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 140813568X
- ISBN-13: 9781408135686
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2010
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