Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Fully Revised and Updated Third Edition
1st Edition
Published on 10. August 2021
224 pages
978-0-691-21925-7 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Fixed format
Illustrations
87 color plates and 2 b/w maps.
87 color plates and 2 b/w maps.
ISBN-13
978-0-691-21925-7 (9780691219257)
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Herbert A. Raffaele | Clive Petrovic | Sergio A. Colon Lopez
Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Fully Revised and Updated Third Edition
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08/2021
Princeton University Press
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Persons
Herbert A. Raffaele is the author of many books, including Wildlife of the Caribbean and Birds of the West Indies (both Princeton). He is former chief of the Division of International Conservation at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Clive Petrovic is an environmental specialist with the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency of the British Virgin Islands. Sergio A. Colón López is an editor of El Bien-Te-Veo, published by the Puerto Rican Ornithological Society. Lisa D. Yntema is an ecologist and conservation biologist in St. Croix. José A. Salguero Faria is a wildlife biologist and ornithologist involved in avian conservation in Puerto Rico.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Artist Credits
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction
- Aims
- Species Coverage
- Taxonomy
- Species Accounts
- Size
- Other Common Names
- Behavior
- Description
- Plumages
- Similar Species
- Flight
- Voice
- Uniqueness
- Status and Range
- Other Definitions
- Recent Avifaunal Changes
- Present Avifaunal Composition
- Migration
- Causes of Avifaunal Increase
- Field Hazards
- Geography
- Biogeography
- Barriers to Dispersal
- Diversity versus Uniqueness
- Uniqueness: Its Values
- Conservation
- The Problem
- Principal Causes of Extinction and Endangerment
- Earliest Human-Caused Extinctions in the Region
- Recent Extinctions and Extirpations
- Endangered and Threatened Species
- Causes of Endangerment
- Habitat Destruction and Disturbance
- Overhunting
- Invasive Pests
- Chemicals
- Climate Change
- Endangered Species List
- Proposed Conservation Measures
- Descriptive Parts of a Bird
- Species Accounts and Color Illustrations
- Ocean Birds
- Coastal Seabirds
- Long-legged Wetland Birds (mostly Waders)
- Medium-legged Wetland Birds (mostly Waders)
- Other Wetland Birds
- Ducks/Duck-like Waterbirds
- Medium- and Long-legged Upland Birds
- Birds of Prey
- Land Birds
- Vagrants
- Vagrants with Insufficient Records
- Unestablished Introductions
- Hypothetical
- Places to Bird
- Puerto Rico
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- Index
- Index of Local Names
