Birds of Mexico and Central America

by Van Perlo, Ber

• ISBN13: 9780691120706
• ISBN10: 0691120706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-03
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

"Birds of Mexico and Central America features: The only field guide to illustrate and describe every species of bird in Central America from Mexico to Panama, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; more than 1,500 species illustrated on 98 color plates; information on key identification features, habitat, and songs and calls; distribution maps showing location and prevalence of each species; illustrations of all plumages for each species, including males, females, and juveniles; informative notes conveniently placed opposite the illustrations; and comprehensive, concise, and highly portable."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 8
Parts of a bird	p. 19
The Plates	p. 20
Plate
Seabirds: albatrosses, fulmars, petrel, shearwater	p. 1
Seabirds: petrels	p. 2
Seabirds: shearwaters, petrel	p. 3
Seabirds: storm-petrels	p. 4
Seabirds: tropicbirds, boobies, gannet, frigatebirds	p. 5
Sea- and waterbirds: murrelets, puffins, loons, penguin	p. 6
Grebes, gallinules, coots, sungrebe, sunbittern	p. 7
Pelicans, cormorants, anhinga	p. 8
Bitterns, egrets, herons	p. 9
Egrets, herons, ibises, limpkin, spoonbill, jabiru, wood stork, flamingo, cranes	p. 10
Swans, geese, mergansers, ducks	p. 11
Ducks	p. 12
Ducks	p. 13
Vultures, osprey, eagle	p. 14
Kites, hawks	p. 15
Kites, harriers	p. 16
Hawks	p. 17
Eagle, hawks	p. 18
Hawks, buzzard	p. 19
Eagles, hawk eagles	p. 20
Caracaras, forest falcons	p. 21
Falcons	p. 22
Chachalacas, guans, curassow, turkeys, rails	p. 23
Rails, crakes, wood partridges	p. 24
Quails, bobwhites, tinamous	p. 25
Thicknee, plovers, oystercatchers, stilt, curlews, avocet, jacanas	p. 26
Yellowlegs, willet, tattler, sandpipers, plovers	p. 27
Godwits, sandpiper, ruff, dowitchers, snipes, phalaropes, turnstones, surfbird	p. 28
Sandpipers	p. 29
Jaegers, skuas, gulls	p. 30
Gulls	p. 31
Gulls	p. 32
Terns	p. 33
Terns, skimmer	p. 34
Pigeons, quail doves	p. 35
Doves, ground doves	p. 36
Parakeets, parrotlets, parrots	p. 37
Macaws, parrots	p. 38
Cuckoos, roadrunners, anis	p. 39
Owls	p. 40
Owls	p. 41
Potoos, oilbird, nightjar, nighthawks, pauraque, poorwills	p. 42
Poorwills, nightjars	p. 43
Swifts	p. 44
Hummingbirds: hermits, sicklebill, sabrewings, jacobin, mangos	p. 45
Hummingbirds: topaz, coquettes, thorntail, emeralds, lancebill	p. 46
Hummingbirds: woodnymphs, hummingbirds, sapphires, snowcap	p. 47
Hummingbirds: emeralds, hummingbirds	p. 48
Hummingbirds: brilliant, violet-ears, mountain gems, plumeleteers, fairy, puffleg, starthroats	p. 49
Hummingbirds: woodstars, sheartails, hummingbirds	p. 50
Quetzals, trogons, jacamars	p. 51
Motmots, kingfishers, puffbirds	p. 52
Barbets, nunbird, nunlet, monklet, toucanets, toucans, woodpeckers	p. 53
Woodpeckers	p. 54
Woodpeckers	p. 55
Woodpeckers: flickers, sapsuckers, woodpeckers	p. 56
Woodcreepers	p. 57
Woodcreepers, piculet, xenops, tuftedcheek, treehunter, treerunners, leaftossers	p. 58
Spinetails, foliage gleaners, greytail, antvireos, tapaculos	p. 59
Antshrikes, antwrens	p. 60
Antbirds, antthrushes, antpittas	p. 61
Flycatchers: kiskadees, flycatchers, kingbirds, cattle tyrant	p. 62
Flycatchers: pewees, flycatchers, attila	p. 63
Flycatchers: tyrranulets, flycatchers	p. 64
Flycatchers: elaenias, pygmy tyrants, flycatcher, bentbills, tody flycatchers, spadebills	p. 65
Flycatchers	p. 66
Flycatchers: phoebes, tyrants, flatbills, kingbirds, twistwing, tyrannulet	p. 67
Schiffornis, piha, mourners, sapayoa, piprites, manakins	p. 68
Becards, cotingas, tityras, fruitcrow, umbrellabird, bellbird	p. 69
Swallows, martins	p. 70
Jays	p. 71
Jays, nutcracker, crows, raven	p. 72
Chickadees, tits, nuthatches, creeper, lark, wagtails, pipits	p. 73
Wrens	p. 74
Wrens	p. 75
Wrens, silky-flycatchers, waxwing, peppershrike, shrikes, donacobius, starling, dipper	p. 76
Warblers, kinglets, gnatwrens, gnatcatchers, greenlets, shrike vireos	p. 77
Vireos	p. 78
Catbirds, mockingbirds, thrashers	p. 79
Solitaires, thrushes	p. 80
Wheatear, bluebirds, thrushes	p. 81
Wood warblers	p. 82
Wood warblers	p. 83
Wood warblers, whitestarts, redstart	p. 84
Wood warblers, wrenthrush, ovenbird, waterthrushes	p. 85
Bananaquit, conebill, dacnises, honeycreepers, tanagers	p. 86
Chlorophonias, euphonias, tanagers	p. 87
Tanagers	p. 88
Tanagers	p. 89
Saltators, grosbeaks, pyrrhuloxia, cardinal, bunting	p. 90
Buntings, dicksissel, finches, brushfinches, ground sparrows	p. 91
Sparrows, towhees, seedeaters, seedfinches, grassquit	p. 92
Finches, grassquit, flowerpiercers, sparrows	p. 93
Sparrows	p. 94
Grass finch, bunting, sparrows, juncos, longspurs	p. 95
Meadowlarks, blackbirds, grackles, cowbirds, oropendolas	p. 96
Orioles, caciques	p. 97
Bobolink, blackbirds, finches, siskins, grosbeaks, goldfinches, crossbill, house sparrow	p. 98
Distribution maps	p. 231
Bibliography and list of further reading	p. 308
Indexes of scientific, Spanish and English names	p. 309
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