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South America, though home to about one-third of the world's bird species and twice as many endemic families of birds as any other continent, has the world's sparsest population of birdwatchers. Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica illustrates and describes all the known species--more than 1,000 of them--in a vast swath of this underexplored birder's paradise, from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay to parts of Antarctica. Just some of the birds it covers are teals, tinamous, chachalacas, conebills, cuckoos, macaws, parakeets, parrots, penguins, nightjars, hummingbirds, ovenbirds, tyrants, and tanagers. The habitats range from torrid rainforests and cloudforests to grasslands, the world's driest desert, second highest mountain range, and ice caps.
The 97 color plates depict each species' male in breeding plumage, with the female and young often shown as well. On the facing page are concise textual descriptions of each species, highlighting not only salient physical features and behavioral patterns but the calls or songs of each. Casual birders and ornithologists contemplating a journey to the region, or simply interested in a one-volume overview of its bird life, will not want to miss this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Birds of South America,
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This review is from: Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica: (Paperback)
I bought this book in preparation for our cruise around South America. We have just returned from this amazing time. The bird book was very informative, and we could identify quite a few birds with its help, The illustrations and descriptions are clear and easy to understand, we enjoyed learning about the birds in this continent, and managed to get some good photographs too.I would recommend this book to anyone visiting South America, who is into birds.
4.0 out of 5 stars
a good guide for visiting birders,
By Kevin Wheeler (St. George, UT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica: (Paperback)
This guide is good; probably the best available for the region. The birders I ran into (even a park ranger) had this guide. It is a convenient size, fitting easily in my cargo-shorts pockets while both hands held my binoculars. It describes most of species (I found a few exceptions, eg. Gray Gull, but it is fairly complete). I did find that some of the illustrations were somewhat simplistic. More detailed descriptions would be useful, but could also negatively affect the weight of the book. I used it in Parque Nacional Iguazu and los Esteros del Ibera, and it served its purpose well.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good guide for a beginner,
By Ivan Maggini (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica: (Paperback)
It was the first time for me in South America, so I didn't know nothing about the birds there. I had the chance to find this guide, which helped me very much, thanks to the good figures. The text is a little bit poor, but for a beginner it's enough. For some families like the Furnariids and the Tyrannids the figures weren't always good for recognising the species in the field. But, in general, I found this guide very useful and the best between all other guides of the region which I saw.
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