商品簡介
"This landmark guide represents a major milestone for birding and conservation in the American tropics. Avian abundance and diversity combine magically in the Pantanal and Cerrado region of Brazil's interior. Finally we have a field guide covering all the birds of this region, richly illustrated by the best in the business and complete with detailed notes and photographs describing the unique ecology and conservation issues of this captivating piece of paradise. Birding in Brazil just became a whole lot easier and more rewarding."---John W. Fitzpatrick Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Brazil, the fifth largest nation in the world, is one of the planet's richest places for avian diversity and endemism. With the Birds of Brazil field guide series, the Wildlife Conservation Society brings together a top international team to do justice to the incredible diversity of Brazil's avifauna. This first guide of the planned five-volume series features the 740 bird species of the Pantanal and Cerrado regions of Central Brazil. This compact modern field guide's unparalleled color artwork throughout, identification points, and range map for each species enable easy identification of all the birds normally found in these vibrant and critically important areas of Brazil
作者簡介
John A. Gwynne is Chief Creative Officer/V.P. for Design emeritus, Wildlife Conservation Society. He is an artist of books including Field Guide to the Birds of Panama and Birds of Venezuela.
Robert S. Ridgely is an executive of the World Land Trust. He is the renowned coauthor of Birds of Ecuador, also from Cornell, and author of the Birds of South America, Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America, and A Guide to the Birds of Panama.
Guy Tudor is the Neotropics' most acclaimed bird artist, a MacArthur fellow, and principal illustrator of The Birds of South America, Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America, A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela, and A Guide to the Birds of Colombia.
Martha Argel is a widely known Brazilian ornithologist and translator of the Portuguese edition of this work.
