Oceanic Birds of the World
A Photo Guide
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2019
360 pages
978-0-691-19701-2 (ISBN)
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Steve N. G. Howell is an international bird tour leader with WINGS and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading birders and an authority on oceanic birds. His many books include Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide and The Amazing World of Flyingfish (both Princeton). Kirk Zufelt is a physician with a lifelong passion for birds and natural history. A widely published photographer, he has spent more than a year at sea over the past decade studying and photographing the world's seabirds at some of the remotest locations on the planet.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Coyright
- Contents
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- Format of the Species Accounts
- Abbreviations and Some Terms Explained
- Introduction
- Taxonomy and Types of Oceanic Birds
- Identifying Seabirds at Sea
- Molt-Yes, It Can Be Useful
- Where and How to See Oceanic Birds
- Conservation
- Species Accounts and Plates
- Penguins
- Alcids
- Diving-Petrels
- Petrels
- Albatrosses
- Storm-Petrels
- Tropicbirds
- Frigatebirds
- Gannets and Boobies
- Skuas and Jaegers
- Gulls and Terns
- Phalaropes
- Appendices
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index
