Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World (Princeton Field Guides) - Softcover

Onley, Derek; Scofield, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691131325 ISBN 13: 9780691131320

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive field guide to the world's 136 species of albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels. Because many of these birds spend most of their lives far from the coast, traveling from ocean to ocean in a constant search for food, they are poorly known, enigmatic, and often hard to identify in the field. This guide will make field identification much easier. It illustrates every species and shows the distinct plumages of each. It contains 46 high-quality color plates opposite concise descriptions and a color distribution map, with more complete species descriptions following. Species are illustrated on the same page as their confusion species, allowing direct comparisons for more accurate identifications.

This field guide includes information on breeding, feeding, distribution, migration, and conservation. And it illustrates for the first time several extremely rare species, such as Beck's and MacGillivray's Petrels, and the New Zealand Storm-Petrel, which was rediscovered only in 2004.

Seabird watchers will find this an indispensable field guide for use around the world.

• A comprehensive guide to all 136 species of open-ocean seabirds, with subspecies and morphs fully illustrated
  


• Designed for field use, with concise information opposite plates, and close- and long-range identification tips
  


• Confusion species included on plates to aid accurate identification
  


• Detailed species accounts, including a color distribution map for each species
  


• Full treatment of recently rediscovered and rarely seen species

About this title

Review:

"This new field guide is very readable, interesting and an informative treatise on a suite of birds most birdos will never get the chance of observing.... There is a wealth of detail in text, distribution maps and paintings of each species that you would be hard pressed to find in any other similar guide."--Martin O'Brien, Bird Observer

"[The guide] is for birders and others who go to sea and wish to find and identify the birds they see there."--Wildlife Activist

"[T]his is an important guide for ornithologists, birders, naturalists, and conservation biologists seriously interested in oceanic birds. It will significantly assist these people in making correct identifications of these fascinating birds at sea. Highly recommended."--International Hawkwatcher

"This guide should make field identification easier for all those hardy souls who venture on the briny deeps."--Charles E. Keller, Indiana Audubon Quarterly

About the Author:

Derek Onley is an internationally acclaimed wildlife artist who specializes in seabirds. He has illustrated more than a dozen books, including "Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand". He lives in New Zealand. Paul Scofield is Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been a seabird biologist for more than twenty years and has traveled from the high Arctic to the Antarctic studying seabirds.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0691131325
• ISBN 13: 9780691131320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240