Shrikes: A Guide to the Shrikes of the World - Hardcover

Lefranc, Norbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300073364 ISBN 13: 9780300073362

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Shrikes are a charismatic group of small- to medium-sized birds with striking raptor-hooked bills and a face mask that gives them the look of small, fierce highwaymen. Their Latin name, Lanius, means butcher, and shrikes are commonly known as butcher-birds for their habit of impaling prey on the thorns of bushes. This book is the first complete guide to the thirty-one species in three genera of the family Laniidae. Along with superb illustrations and range maps to facilitate successful field identification of all the shrike species, this useful book contains the most recent information on the entire shrike family.

About this title

About the Author:

Norbert Lefranc is a nature conservation officer at the Ministry of the Environment in Metz and is in charge of all nature conservation in Lorraine. Tim Worfolk is a leading bird illustrator whose work has been published in British Birds, Birding World, and Birdwatch. He is currently working on several other regional guides and identification guides to other bird families.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0300073364
• ISBN 13: 9780300073362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Worfolk Tim