The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0517032880 / Publisher: Wings Books, September 1991
Gathers information on bird anatomy, characteristics, and behavior, describes hundreds of species, identifies key naturalists, and defines ornithological terms
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This monumental work is the first truly comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia to provide - for both layman and expert - rich, concise, authoritative, and brilliantly illustrated information on the birds of North America - all the birds that nest or have been sighted in the 48 contiguous United States, as well as Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, and Baja California, as recorded by the American Ornithologists' Union. It is the first distillation in a single alphabetically arranged volume of the important scientific literature on North American birds.The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds contains nearly one million words - nearly 6,000 alphabetical entries and cross-references specially arranged to make information easy to find. Its contents include the life histories of 847 birds, their appearances, habitats, ranges, songs, nests, behavior, and much more... 625 major topics, from Courtship, Flight, and Migration to Songs and Singing, Territory, and Young and Their Care... definitions of ornithological terms... biographies of naturalists and explorers whose names are associated with North American birds... and an extensive bibliography spanning 300 years of ornithological publications.Among the 1,675 extraordinarily beautiful and informative illustrations, there are more than 875 full-color photographs showing almost every bird that nests in North America and many of the visitors - photographs chosen for their excellence and for their revelation of the appearances, the habitats, and aspects of the behavior of each. There are also more than 800 black-and-white illustrations: composite drawings of family characteristics, full portraits of many species, silhouettes, anatomical details, body systems, diagrams, flight patterns, migration maps, and portraits of extinct species and fossil birds.
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