A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies (Peterson Field Guide Series) - Softcover

Bond, James; Eckelberry, Don R.; Singer, Arthur B.; Poole, Earl L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618002103 ISBN 13: 9780618002108

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

Synopsis

Descriptions of more than 400 species of birds found in the islands of the West Indies include local names of birds, notes on migrants and winter residents -- as well as birds that breed there -- and voice, habitat, and range information. More than 340 illustrations aid in identification.

About this title

Review:

“This illustrated guide will be a great boon to professional and amateur, even traveller and visitor with the most casual interest in birds”. NATURE

“Mr Bond’s volume is intended for a quick reference and is planned to enable the birds of the West Indian islands to be identified with the minimum of trouble and minimum of description. For purposes of identification the colour plates in this volume could not be bettered”. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

From the Back Cover:

COLLINS FIELD GUIDE

COMPREHENSIVE
EASY TO USE · HIGHLY ILLUSTRATED

From Grand Bahama Island in the north to Grenada in the South, this unique guide covers a tropical avifaunal region which includes such species as the tiny Bee Hummingbird, parrots, honey-creepers and todies.

For every resident species there are notes on diagnostic characters, local names, voice habitat, identification and range. The birds are faithfully illustrated with 155 species shown in colour and a further 186 in black and white.

"This illustrated guide will be a great boon to professional and amateur, even traveller and visitor with the most casual interest in birds."
NATURE

"Mr Bond's volume is intended for quick reference and is planned to enable the birds of the West Indian islands to be identified with the minimum of trouble and minimum of description. For purposes of identification the colour plates in this volume could not be bettered."
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0618002103
• ISBN 13: 9780618002108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256