Posts Tagged ‘Birds of New Guinea’

From Florida to Hawaii to New Guinea; hummingbirds to kestrels; checklists to novels – there’s something in January’s reviews for everyone. American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Florida and Colorado 10,000 Birds Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 1 Non-passerines Wildlife Activist American Kestrel: Pint-sized Predator The Well-read Naturalist Birds […]

by Thane K. Pratt and Bruce M. Beehler

A fully updated – and indispensable – field guide to New Guinea.

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Birds of New Guinea: Second Edition by Thane K. Pratt and Bruce M. Beehler From Princeton University Press: This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world’s largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and […]