| Description |
316 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 35 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-309) and index. |
| Summary |
Presents in words and pictures all the bird families of the world, with more than 700 birds shown in full color. |
| Contents |
Author's foreword -- Introduction -- Kiwis -- Ostriches -- Rheas -- Cassowaries, emus -- Tinamous -- Grebes -- Loons -- Penguins -- Tube-nosed swimmers -- Pelicans and allies -- Herons and allies -- Waterfowl -- Birds of prey -- Shorebirds, gulls, auks -- Pigeons and allies -- Parrots and allies -- Cuckoos and allies -- Cranes, rails, and allies -- Owls -- Goatsuckers -- Swifts, hummingbirds -- Trogons -- Colies or mousebirds -- Kingfishers and allies -- Woodpeckers and allies -- Perching birds: Broadbills; Tyrant flycatchers and allies; Lyrebirds and scrub-birds; Songbirds. |
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Maps: Major faunal regions of the world -- Distribution of ratite birds -- Range of the tinamou family -- Range of the penguin family -- Migration of the slender-billed shearwater -- First-year recoveries of giant petrels -- Migration routes of the European white stork -- Breeding distribution of the flamingos -- Range of hoatzin -- Ranges of kagu, finfoots, sunbittern, and seriemas -- Range of bustards -- Distribution of jacanas -- Ranges of painted snipes -- Migration routes of the Arctic tern -- Ranges of goatsuckers and allies -- Distribution and species-density of hummingbirds -- Range of colies or mousebirds -- Ranges of todies and motmots -- Range of hornbills -- Range of toucans -- Range of bulbuls. |
| Subject |
Birds.
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Birds. (OCoLC)fst00832970
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| Genre/Form |
Zoological surveys. (OCoLC)fst02002258
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Zoological surveys.
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| Added Author |
Singer, Arthur, illustrator.
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Zim, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer), 1909-1994, editor.
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| Added Title |
Survey of the twenty-seven orders and one hundred and fifty-five families |
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