Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of Peru’s 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. Concise descriptions and color distribution maps are located opposite the plates, making this book much easier to use in the field than standard neotropical field guides. This fully revised paperback edition includes twenty-five additional species.
A comprehensive guide to all 1,817 species found in Peru–one fifth of the world’s birds–with subspecies, sexes, age classes, and morphs fully illustrated Designed especially for field use, with vivid descriptive information and helpful identification tips opposite color plates Detailed species accounts, including a full-color distribution map Includes 25 additional species not covered in the first edition Features 3 entirely new plates and more than 25 additional illustrations
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Fix it, please! Beautiful book – I am very grateful to the authors for the years and years of careful effort that went into this. As a hardbound book, my one issue is the maps. Tiny little things riddled with state boundaries that even most Peruvians probably struggle with. Consider improving them in an e-book where space is not so much of an issue. The kindle edition is a big weight saver for the travelling birder. I’m using it on an ipad so I can see the color plates.
Birds of Peru: Kindle Edition Many have written about the printed edition which is excellent, but I want to comment about the Kindle edition. I feel disappointed with the low resolution of the plates. Many subspecies names on the plates are simply impossible to read due to the low quality of the scan and most details on the birds are lost when you zoom in. Since this is a field guide intended to identify birds the plates must be scanned on high resolution, otherwise is a useless book. Also the price seems to be to high,…
Great book, very poor adaption for e-reader Great book which covers a huge amount of species in sufficient detail for identification.