- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (16 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691090351
- ISBN-13: 978-0691090351
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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[A]n outstanding field guide that covers a vast geographic area and includes a wealth of information for more than 1,100 species of birds. . . . It should be purchased by anybody interested in the birds of southern South America. -- Floyd E. Hayes, Auk
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South America, though home to about one-third of the world's bird species and twice as many endemic families of birds as any other continent, has the world's sparsest population of birdwatchers. Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica illustrates and describes all the known species--more than 1,000 of them--in a vast swath of this underexplored birder's paradise, from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay to parts of Antarctica. Just some of the birds it covers are teals, tinamous, chachalacas, conebills, cuckoos, macaws, parakeets, parrots, penguins, nightjars, hummingbirds, ovenbirds, tyrants, and tanagers. The habitats range from torrid rainforests and cloudforests to grasslands, the world's driest desert, second highest mountain range, and ice caps.
The 97 color plates depict each species' male in breeding plumage, with the female and young often shown as well. On the facing page are concise textual descriptions of each species, highlighting not only salient physical features and behavioral patterns but the calls or songs of each. Casual birders and ornithologists contemplating a journey to the region, or simply interested in a one-volume overview of its bird life, will not want to miss this book.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is quite a good id-guide, and it is the only one covering quite a big part of the world.
Most of the plates are okay. There are some drawbacks however. Cinclodes and Earthcreeper species and a few other birds can hardly be identified using the pictures from this book.
The text is very short (which was intended). Unfortunately, information about voices and habits of birds was ommitted. But the book is small and easy to carry in a bagpack. So it is a very helpful guide when travelling to southern Latin America. But you 'll need other literature back home to solve some id-problems left.
Most of the plates are okay. There are some drawbacks however. Cinclodes and Earthcreeper species and a few other birds can hardly be identified using the pictures from this book.
The text is very short (which was intended). Unfortunately, information about voices and habits of birds was ommitted. But the book is small and easy to carry in a bagpack. So it is a very helpful guide when travelling to southern Latin America. But you 'll need other literature back home to solve some id-problems left.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a popular book. Still the only modern guide for Argentina and the southern parts of Brazil.
The book starts with the plates and descriptions, which followed by some black-and-white plates for flying raptors, and the maps closes the book
Personally I find the illustrations disappointing. In this book it seems that all the forest eagles and hawks have the same powerful built like the Harpy Eagle (which is not true, especially for the Crested Eagle, which looks a bulky bird in this book) or you will think that the King Vulture is the smallest of the neotropical vultures (which is the largest after the Condor). Usually there are 10-15 species on one plate, which makes them very crowded.
On the positive side, the authors tried to fill the space with text, so you wont find a page which is only "half-full". In some cases the text is more useful then the pictures.
The area which is covered, still lacks a good bird book, so I still suggest to buy this. Chile is an exception, the book called Birds of Chile by Jaramillo is far better.
The book starts with the plates and descriptions, which followed by some black-and-white plates for flying raptors, and the maps closes the book
Personally I find the illustrations disappointing. In this book it seems that all the forest eagles and hawks have the same powerful built like the Harpy Eagle (which is not true, especially for the Crested Eagle, which looks a bulky bird in this book) or you will think that the King Vulture is the smallest of the neotropical vultures (which is the largest after the Condor). Usually there are 10-15 species on one plate, which makes them very crowded.
On the positive side, the authors tried to fill the space with text, so you wont find a page which is only "half-full". In some cases the text is more useful then the pictures.
The area which is covered, still lacks a good bird book, so I still suggest to buy this. Chile is an exception, the book called Birds of Chile by Jaramillo is far better.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are only two bird books currently for such a broad expanse of country. This is the better of the two. The advantages are that it contains the wide range of birds and the descriptions and calls of the birds are accurate. The disadvantages are that some of the colours in the pictures are not quite true to life, it does not always show the bird in the most suitable position for recognition. It also has all the plates at the back which show, where you can normally find the bird. This does create a lot of going backwards and forwards if you do not know the bird. Apart from that it proved really useful on my trip in Brasil.
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The only field guide you need.
Brilliant idea combining Southern South America with Antarctica. It's such a common combination of destinations. Read more
Published 8 months ago by G. RAYNER
Argentinian birds
Bought in anticipation of a trip to Argentina. Not road tested yet, but similar in style to other field guides that I have, illustrations good and distribution maps, although... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2009 by Dr. David Venters
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