- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade); Subsequent edition (1 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0618002103
- ISBN-13: 978-0618002108
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 12.4 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 924,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“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
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From Grand Bahama Island in the north to Grenada in the south, this is an identification guide to the birds of a popular tourist destination renowned for the variety and diversity of its birdlife.
The West Indies include the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), and the Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Nevis and St Kitts, Martinique, St Lucia, Barbados, Grenadines, St Vincent). It is 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.
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Grebes comprise a small, cosmopolitan family of lobe-footed water birds. Read the first page
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Buyers need to be aware that relatively few species are illustrated in colour, and some not at all. As the intro states, the book is best used in conjunction with a North American Bird Book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As ever the Collins guides are the ones to have, and this is as informative and well-illustrated as the rest in the series. However, this is such a limited-interest title, one has to wonder why Collins keep it in print. It may be for nostalgic reasons - the author was reputed to have inspired Ian Fleming to use his name when trying to name his secret agent character.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've been looking for this book for while, searching through the book shop with no success.it was easy online.
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JAMES BOND?!?!!!!
this is the book that inspired the greatest film series of all time. for that reason, its almost worth getting a copy. don't worry about the book itself
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