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Birds of the world / Les Beletsky ; illustrated by David Nurney ... [et al.].

Title
Birds of the world / Les Beletsky ; illustrated by David Nurney ... [et al.].
Author
Beletsky, Les, 1956-
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
Nurney, David.
Description
xi, 513 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
"This collection of art and text captures the grace, beauty, and flamboyance of the world's birds. In more than 500 pages, ornithologist Les Beletsky has gathered over 1,600 original paintings that reveal the form, posture, and plumage of all the avian families, featuring illustrations of more than 1,300 avian species. The paintings are from eleven of the world's leading bird artists, with many being published here for the first time." "Beletsky's detailed descriptions are paired with vivid images to show the diversity of the world's approximately 200 bird families. Backyard bird-watchers, avid birders, and professional ornithologists alike will find in these pages everything from the everyday to the exotic, from diminutive hummingbirds to massive ostriches, from Antarctic penguins to tropical parrots."--Jacket.
Subject
Genre/Form
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • Pictorial works
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-504) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ratites: Ostrich, emu, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis -- Tinamous -- Penguins -- Loons (Divers) -- Grebes -- Albatrosses -- Petrels and shearwaters -- Storm-petrels, diving-petrels -- Tropicbirds; frigatebirds -- Pelicans -- Boobies and gannets -- Cormorants; anhingas -- Herons, egrets, and bitterns -- Storks; shoebill; hamerkop -- Ibises and spoonbills -- Flamingos; screamers -- Ducks, geese, and swans -- New world vultures -- Hawks, eagles, and kites; osprey; secretarybird -- Falcons -- Megapodes -- Pheasants, partridges, and grouse; buttonquail -- New world quail -- Curassows, guans, and chachalacas -- Guineafowl; turkeys -- Rails, gallinules, and coots -- Cranes -- Limpkin; trumpeters; seriemas -- Sungrebes; sunbittern; kagu; mesites -- Bustards -- Jacanas -- Sandpipers, phalaropes, and snipes; painted-snipes -- Plovers and lapwings -- Thick-knees; seedsnipes; plains-wanderer -- Oystercatchers; crab-plover -- Stilts and avocets; ibisbill -- Pratincoles and coursers -- Gulls and terns -- Skuas; skimmers; sheathbills -- Puffins and auks -- Sandgrouse -- Pigeons and doves -- Parrots -- Cockatoos -- Turacos -- Cuckoos -- Ground-cuckoos; anis; hoatzin -- Owls -- Nightjars -- Frogmouths; owlet-nightjars; potoos; oilbird -- Motmots -- Hornbills -- Honeyguides -- Woodpeckers -- Ovenbirds -- Manakins -- New world flycatchers -- Australasian robins -- Whipbirds, quail-thrushes, and jewel-babblers -- Jays, crows, ravens, and magpies -- Birds-of-paradise -- Old world orioles -- Vireos -- Starlings, mynas, and oxpeckers -- Nuthatches; sittellas -- Wrens -- Larks -- Wagtails and pipits -- Sunbirds and spiderhunters -- Tanagers -- Cardinals, saltators, and grosbeaks -- New world blackbirds.
ISBN
  • 0801884292 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780801884290 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005032622
OCLC
62290552
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library