A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Published on 8. October 2009
Book
Hardback
480 pages
978-0-19-530154-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, featuring 187 beautifully drawn full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each species. The volume contains information on bird features, habitat, calls, and species distribution, and pays special attention to the species endemic to Brazil. Species names are given in both English and Portuguese, and frequently used terms are translated in an
appendix.
appendix.
Reviews / Votes
"Van Perlo's book can be considered the best bird field guide produced as far for Brazil due to a combination of its light weight and small size, thorough coverage of species, and generally good quality and useful plates, text, and range maps."--The Quarterly Review of Biology"This latest publication of a field guide to Brazilian birds moves the bar a couple of notches above the several existing recent attempts, all of which have been published in Brazil. It is certainly the single most useful book for field identification of Brazil's enormous and complex birdlife currently available. If you live in or soon plan to go birding in Brazil, buy this book and make the best of it, it will help you immensely!"--AUK
"Any birdwatcher planning a trip to Brazil needs A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil. It is the first modern, in-depth guide to Brazil's birds and offers information on size, call and identifying features for nearly 2,000 birds. Clear color drawings pack a portable dictionary including an English-Portuguese dictionary especially for birders and some 1,700 species-distribution maps. Simply invaluable."--Midwest Book Review
"Would I suggest to a traveling birder to buy one? Absolutely."--Indiana Audubon Quarterly
"This is now the essential field guide companion that one would need when visiting Brazil."--Idaho Birding Blog
"Highly recommended. The book will be useful to professional and amateur ornithologists, both in Brazil and bordering countries."--Choice
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
187 color plates, 1,791 distribution maps, 5 black and white line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1175 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-530154-0 (9780195301540)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Ber van Perlo
A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
E-Book
11/2018
OUP eBook
€35.49
Available for download
Ber van Perlo
A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Book
10/2009
Oxford University Press Inc
€50.00
Article in reprint
Person
Ber Van Perlo graduated from the Agricultural University of Wageningen and worked as a geographer and physical planner for the Dutch National Forest Service until 1991. He has a lifelong interest in birds and has published and/or illustrated 7 titles on bird identification.
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Content
Lists of Plates ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Brazil: The Area Covered ; 1.1 Country Profile ; 1.2 Biogeography ; 1.2.1 Climate ; 1.2.2 Geomorphology ; 1.2.3 Natural Vegetation ; 2. Brazil: The Birds ; 2.1 Classification and Names ; 2.2 Field Identification ; 2.2.1 Plates ; 2.2.2 Captions ; 2.2.3 Distribution Maps ; 2.3 Short Introduction to Selected Bird Groups and Families of the Neotropics ; 2.3.1 Worldwide Families and Groups ; 2.3.2 Typical American Families and Groups ; Symbols, Abbreviations, and Glossary ; Parts of a Bird ; SPECIES ACCOUNTS, PLATES, AND DISTRIBUTION MAPS ; PROTECTED AREAS OF BRAZIL ; NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER REFERENCES ; Appendix 1: The Endemics of Brazil ; Appendix 2: English-Portuguese Dictionary ; Index