Brazil, the fifth largest nation in the world, is one of the planet’s richest places for avian diversity and endemism. With the Birds of Brazil field guide series, the Wildlife Conservation Society brings together a top international team to do justice to the incredible diversity of Brazil’s avifauna. This first guide of the planned five-volume series features the 743 bird species of the Pantanal and Cerrado regions of Central Brazil.
The sprawling Pantanal plain, one of the world’s most famed birding sites, is a seasonally flooded wetland boasting both impressive concentrations of large waterbirds and species such as the Toco Toucan, Hyacinth Macaw, Golden-collared Macaw, and endemic Blaze-winged Parakeets. The Cerrado is a distinctive Brazilian habitat that is the planet’s biologically richest savanna.
This compact modern field guide’s unparalleled color artwork throughout, identification points, and range map for each species enable easy identification of all the birds normally found in these vibrant and critically important areas of Brazil. With 116 threatened species encompassing 25 percent of South America’s threatened birds, Brazil has an imperative to conserve its birds and unique habitats that begins with their appreciation and identification. Thus, the species accounts are coupled with an introductory chapter on the region’s unique environments and pressing conservation challenges. This practical and portable guide is an indispensable companion to those visiting Brazil’s glorious natural areas of the Pantanal and Cerrado.
Very Good; but room for improvement Very good as others have mentioned. But I wanted to point out one drawback that I have noticed now that I am using the book more in prep for a Brazil trip. The number of plumages represented for several species are unhelpfully limited, and in several cases, distinct plumages are represented only by an illustration of the head. In particular, juvenile plumages of passerines are almost never illustrated, and in many cases of distinct male and female plumages are only represented by an…
A field guide nearly as good as a actual bird guide! I used this book in Rio, Iguassu Falls and in the Pantanal. Although it is written for the Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil, it includes birds found in other regions and was fine for Rio and Iguassu. The book is inclusive for the Pantanal area (740 species) but not too cumbersome to carry while birding.I had considered buying a guide with all the birds of Brazil, but it would be too heavy to carry. The book I had considered was…
Excellent new guide for exciting area of Brazil This is an excellent new bird guide for a world-class region known as the Pantanal and Cerrado in interior Brazil. The authors are two of the most knowledgeable experts on the area there are — John A. Gwynne and Robert S. Ridgely. Their text is perfect. Succinct but in conversational sentence structure form. It cover appearance and identification points, viewing suggestions, voice, habits and its frequency. Indigenous birds are marked with tiny Brazilian flags and threatened birds are…