Birds of New Guinea - Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. This comprehensive annotated checklist of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of New Guinea is the first formal review of this avifauna since Ernst Mayr's Checklist, published in 1941. This new book brings together all the systematic, taxonomic, and distributional research conducted on the region's bird families over the last 70 years.

About the author

Bruce M. Beehler is a research associate of the Division of Birds at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and a naturalist with interests in birds and forests. Thane K. Pratt is a research associate at the B. P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii and a bird conservationist with a focus on the tropical Pacific. Pratt and Beehler are the coauthors of the field guide Birds of New Guinea, Second Edition (Princeton).

Summary

"Gazetteer of New Guinea ornithology [by] Jennifer L. Mandeville and William S. Peckover": pages 560-632.

Additional text

"All around, this is a solid field guide/handbook and one that does justice to the series."---Mike Toms, British Trust for Ornithology

Product details

• Authors: Bruce M. Beehler, Bruce M. Pratt Beehler, Beehler Bruce M., Thane K. Pratt, Pratt Thane K.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780691164243
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16424-3
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 250 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, Zoology: birds (ornithology), Birds (ornithology), Papua New Guinea