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Includes detailed annotations of all of Mexico's regular resident and migrant species. Each description includes the English, Spanish, and Latin names; a general range statement; typical habitats and abundance; and physical characteristics, including size and plumage. In addition, full color plates of some 850 birds are included. Annotation c. by B
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Experienced author, more illustrations, easier to carry.
I first traveled in Mexico to study birds and to make films about them for the National Audubon Society in 1946, and began writing bird-finding guides with illustrations to help in identifying Mexican birds, in 1955, and began leading birding tours to Mexico in 1956. These experiences, along with three years of work on a doctoral dissertation about birds of the Lake Pátzcuaro region in Mexico, have helped me write what I hope you will agree is the most "user-friendly" Mexican bird guide. It has gone through two major revisions, each time becoming more useful and helpful than before. (1) In my book, almost all of the illustrations (the "heart and soul" of a field guide) are better, in my opinion, than those in most other Mexican or Central American guides, and there are more of them, about 950 species illustrated, compared with about 750 and about 550 respectively, in the other two Mexican bird guides. (2) It is up-to-date, and incorporates almost all of the changes in the latest (1998) AOU Checklist. (3) The book is slightly larger than the guide which illustrates about 550 species, but smaller than, and less than 1/3 the weight of, the guide which illustrates about 750 species. I hope you will want to test it in the field.
I first traveled in Mexico to study birds and to make films about them for the National Audubon Society in 1946, and began writing bird-finding guides with illustrations to help in identifying Mexican birds, in 1955, and began leading birding tours to Mexico in 1956. These experiences, along with three years of work on a doctoral dissertation about birds of the Lake Pátzcuaro region in Mexico, have helped me write what I hope you will agree is the most "user-friendly" Mexican bird guide. It has gone through two major revisions, each time becoming more useful and helpful than before. (1) In my book, almost all of the illustrations (the "heart and soul" of a field guide) are better, in my opinion, than those in most other Mexican or Central American guides, and there are more of them, about 950 species illustrated, compared with about 750 and about 550 respectively, in the other two Mexican bird guides. (2) It is up-to-date, and incorporates almost all of the changes in the latest (1998) AOU Checklist. (3) The book is slightly larger than the guide which illustrates about 550 species, but smaller than, and less than 1/3 the weight of, the guide which illustrates about 750 species. I hope you will want to test it in the field.
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