Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse – A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails, and Sandgrouse of the Wo: A Guide ... of the World: 18 (Princeton Field Guides) - Hardcover

Madge, Steve; Mcgowan, Phil; Kirwan, Guy M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691089086 ISBN 13: 9780691089089

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This guide brings together, for the first time within a single volume, a comprehensive review of all the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer - over 250 species in all. The group includes some of the world's most familiar and beautiful birds, such as the Indian peafowl and the stunning tragopans, as well as some of the rarest and most threatened. This book concentrates on detailed identification and distribution, but also highlights conservation issues where relevant. The seventy-two color plates, by leading bird illustrators, show male, female, juvenile, and subspecies plumages, and form the finest set of illustrations of these birds to date. There is also a color distribution map for each species. "Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse" is a landmark volume in the literature of this attractive and vulnerable group of birds. This is a comprehensive identification guide to over 250 species of pheasants, partridges, and grouse throughout the world. It is a detailed text covering identification, description, geographical variation, voice, status, habitat and behavior, distribution, movements, and measurements. It includes 72 color plates depicting male, female, juvenile, and subspecies plumages. It features information on conservation issues; and glossary, index, reference, and bibliography.

About this title

Review:

"This long-awaited book seems destined to be the authoritative work for years to come on this large and diverse group, which runs the gamut from some of the most familiar to some of the least-known, most spectacular, and most threatened of the world's birds. The comprehensive text incorporates much information that is new, revised, or previously overlooked, and the plates are attractive and well planned, even including never-before-illustrated plumages."--Pamela C. Rasmussen, Division of Birds, Smithsonian Institution

"Winner of the 2002 Best Bird Families Book, Worldtwitch"

"This entire book must have been a labor of love for its authors. . . . [It] lets one appreciate the great beauty of these birds. . . . This new book satisfies my need to have close at hand a convenient world reference on one of my favorite groups of birds."---Paul A. Johnsgard, Birding

About the Author:

Steve Madge has traveled extensively as a bird-tour guide over the past twenty years. A former member of the British Birds Rarities Committee, he is also coauthor of Wildfowl and Crows and Jays (Princeton) and the coauthor of The Handbook of Bird Identification for Europe and the Western Palearctic (Princeton). Phil McGowan earned a Ph.D. for his study of Malaysian peacock-pheasants and was lead compiler of the World Pheasant Association's action plans for pheasants, partridges, quail, francolins, snowcock, and guineafowl. He is the author of the Phasianidae texts for Handbook of the Birds of the World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0691089086
• ISBN 13: 9780691089089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 516