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A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
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$ 165.39
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Item Description...
This book is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Brazil, featuring 187 beautifully drawn full-color plates with 1796 species accounts, including a distribution map for each species. The volume contains information on bird features, habitat, calls, and species distribution, and pays special attention to the species endemic to Brazil. Species names are given in both English and Portuguese, and frequently used terms are translated in an appendix. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 465
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 6.5" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 2.6 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Oct 9, 2009
Publisher Oxford University Press
ISBN 0195301544
EAN 9780195301540
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 | Simply invaluable Jan 15, 2010 |
| Any birdwatcher planning a trip to Brazil needs A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil. It is the first modern, in-depth guide to Brazil's birds and offers information on size, call and identifying features for nearly 2,000 birds. Clear color drawings pack a portable dictionary including an English-Portuguese dictionary especially for birders and some 1,700 species-distribution maps. Simply invaluable. | | |  | van perlo Birds of Brazil Dec 31, 2009 |
| Easy to use when studying for a trip. Concise info for each bird plus map. Bird pictures arranged on page in sensible manner. Surprisingly heavy! Can't comment yet on how accurate the drawings are. Common, scientific, and Portuguese names all in one index. | | | | An excellent field guide Dec 25, 2009 |
| We are just back from a trip to the Pantanal, our first ever to Brazil. There with the aid of van Perlo's field guide, we identified 150 or so species of birds. (We were also assisted by some living guides at two ecotourist destinations.) The book is easy to use, nicely illustrated, and just compact enough to carry around despite the large number of species covered by the guide. Recommended. | | |  | birds of brazil Nov 24, 2009 |
| Comprehensive field guide, but some of the colors in the plates not as good as they could be. Maps, accompanying each description and illustration, show the distribution of each species, so it is easy to eliminate many of the very similar species on distribution alone. | | | | Not the best field guide Nov 20, 2009 |
I bought von Perlo's field guide because it was the only portable field guide available at the time to the birds of Brazil - and even then it is heavy. It's big, but so is the number of birds he deals with. At first glance (it arrived shortly before my trip) I was disappointed. The illustrations are fairly small and not very good. Maybe his other guidebooks are better. But many birds were recognizable on a quick look-through and there seemed nothing else I could take with me to Manaus, so it was packed away and off I went.
On arriving in Brazil I had a chance to go through it carefully and realized that several plates were misprinted - the colour yellow was missing - so the kingfishers and several hummingbird plates are in shades of blue and pink (no greens). I wonder how many other copies are around like this. Then I tried to identify what turned out to be a palm tanager - he shows this as a pale greyish bird when they are rather olive green with brownish coppery wings. His red-eyed vireo didn't look anything like the red-eyed vireos in the trees above me. To save space, the text is shrunk down to the point where it is almost useless - field pointers as to colour were minimal. The distribution (and seasonal) maps were of great use, and his call descriptions did make sense to me, and did help me (these features are why he has 3 stars not 2). I used the Brazilian WikiAves and several other sites to check every bird that I was unsure of (once back in accommodation) - but still have a pile of notes on mystery birds. His tyrannulets and such-like were impossible.
I had been to South America once before (Ecuador) and so had some idea of the families and genera of the birds that I was looking at. If I had not, I would have been rather lost with Mr von Perlo. His book is useful, yes, but also immensely frustrating as it is very hard to work out what the birds actually are, just by using his book. I will buy the Guy Tudor illustrated book mentioned by some of the other reviewers and see if I can finally identify my problem birds!
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