Shrikes and Bush-Shrikes

Informationen zum Autor Tony Harris is Associate Curator in the Department of Birds at the Transvaal Museum in South Africa, where he established the Fitzpatrick Bird Communication Library. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork and sound recording in southern Africa and has been researching shrike taxonomy and systematics for many years. He is the author of Shrikes of Southern Africa . Kim Franklin, a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, has exhibited his work in countries throughout Europe and Africa. His illustrations have appeared in numerous books, including Birds of the Western Palearctic, Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, and the award-winning Parrots . Vorwort The book covers the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, the closely related shrike flycatchers, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes. Zusammenfassung The book covers the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, the closely related shrike flycatchers, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Sponsorship Layout and Methods Introduction - History- Characteristics of shrikes- Shrike communication- Communication summaries and relationships- Glossary- Topography- Genera Overview Species Accounts (1-114) References Appendix A: Problems of species limits and relationships Appendix B: Comparative characters

Product details

• Authors: Tony Harris, Harris Tony
• Assisted by: Franklin Kim (Illustration)
• Publisher: Helm Christopher Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2000
• EAN: 9780713638615
• ISBN: 978-0-7136-3861-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Helm Identification Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; NATURE / Reference, Zoology: birds (ornithology), Birds (ornithology), Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest