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Alaska
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avifauna
bird
birding
Birdwatcher
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cape Horn
Caribbean
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Category=WNCB
distribution map
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habitat
handbook
Icteridae
identify
illustrated
in the wild
line drawing
ornithologist
outdoors
photographic
pocket
Red-winged
region
species
spotting
study
troupial
where to see
wildlife
zoology
Product details
- ISBN 9780713643336
- Weight: 1092g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A guide to the family Icteridae, known as blackbirds, troupials or New World Blackbirds.
A diverse family, the Icterids range throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Cape Horn, and including the Caribbean.
Despite the name 'blackbird', many of the 103 species covered in this book are very brightly coloured , and the group includes some of the most studied species in the world, Red-winged Blackbird and Brown-headed Cowbird for instance.
This book depicts every species, showing races where relevant, and covering every aspect of the natural history and identification of the species treated. There are distribution maps and line drawings which illustrate aspects of bird behaviour.
Alvaro Jaramillo was born in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Toronto, Canada. He is a wildlife biologist for the Coyote Creek Riparian Station in San Jose, California. He also leads birding tours in North and South America, and is the author of several bird books.
