By Bruce M. Beehler,Thane K. Pratt
New Guinea, the most important tropical island, helps a wonderful poultry fauna characterised via cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, in addition to the long-lasting birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the approximately 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, greater than 350 are stumbled on nowhere else on the earth. This complete annotated record of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of recent Guinea is the 1st formal evaluation of this avifauna seeing that Ernst Mayr's Checklist, released in 1941. This new book brings jointly all of the systematic, taxonomic, and distributional examine carried out at the region's poultry households over the past 70 years.
Bruce Beehler and Thane Pratt give you the medical beginning for the names, geographic distributions, and systematic association of latest Guinea's poultry fauna. All technical info is annotated and a geographic gazetteer and bibliography are integrated. This ebook is a perfect supplement to the Birds of latest Guinea box advisor additionally released via Princeton, and is a necessary technical reference for all clinical libraries, ornithologists, and people attracted to fowl classification.
- The first entire revision of the hot Guinea fowl fauna considering 1941
- Accounts for seventy five fowl species new to the region
- Includes a geographic gazetteer, bibliography, and causes of taxonomic and systematic classifications
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