Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama
by Andrew C. Vallely and Dale Dyer
From Princeton University Press:
Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Handy and compact, the book presents text and illustrations for nearly 1,200 resident and migrant species, and information on all rare vagrants. Two hundred sixty detailed plates on convenient facing-page spreads depict differing ages and sexes for each species, with a special focus on geographic variation. The guide also contains up-to-date range maps and concise notes on distribution, habitat, behavior, and voice. An introduction provides a brief overview of the region’s landscape, climate, and biogeography.
The culmination of more than a decade of research and field experience, Birds of Central America is an indispensable resource for all those interested in the bird life of this part of the world.
- Detailed information on the entire avifauna of Central America
- 260 beautiful color plates
- Range maps, text, and illustrations presented on convenient facing-page spreads
- Up-to-date notes on distribution supported by an extensive bibliography
- Special focus on geographic variation of bird species
Covering the entirety of Central America, this field guide isn’t small or light (think Sibley size, roughly). But wow, this is some sort of guide and reference. It may not be a guide to take into the field, but it’s definitely one to make room for in your carry-on. The art is wonderful (although some plates seem a little light, or washed out), it shows a great amount of variation, and has tons of information.
Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rican, and Panama
by Andrew C. Vallely and Dale Dyer
Flexicover; 584 pages
Princeton University Press; October 16, 2018
ISBN: 9780691138022
$49.50
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Posted by Grant McCreary on November 30th, 2018.
[…] illustrations in these field guides have been pulled from Dyer’s work in Birds of Central America. I like that older guide, but it’s a bit big to carry around. These new guides are smaller […]