Author | Steven L. Hilty |
Language | English |
ISBN | 9780713664188 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury |
Pages | 896 |
Format | 23 x 15 cm |
Binding | paperback |
Pictures | richly illustrated, full color |
Year of publication | 2002 |
A field handbook covering one of the most bird-rich countries in the world - Venezuela. Over 1300 species are described and illustrated in the work, which is a completely reworked new edition of the Princeton title A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela, first published in 1978. The text of that book has been replaced with a new text by another author. Of the 67 plates, 27 are new, and the volume as a whole is over twice the length of its predecessor. Unlike the earlier title, this guide includes a distribution map for every species, using shading for wide-ranging species and locality dots for rarer birds.