Sunbirds: A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and Sugarbirds of the WorldA&C Black, 30 lip 2010 - 384 Sunbirds is the first book since the 19th Century to cover in detail all the world's sunbirds and spiderhunters - the Nectarinidae. It also includes the allied families of flowerpeckers and sugarbirds; a total of 176 species is described and illustrated. The book has been designed to help readers identify all of these species and also their various subspecies, the most distinctive of which are illustrated as well as described. Each species account provides a distribution map, a summary of identification criteria and a description of how the species differs from similar ones. The calls and songs, habitat, geographical distribution, status, movements, food (including a list of known food plants), habits, and breeding biology are also described. Finally, a full description of the species and salient features of each subspecies is given, together with measurements and references. Sunbirds not only aids identification, it provides a wealth of information on the ecology and behaviour of these birds. The authors have carried out extensive fieldwork in Asia and Africa. They have also studied skins, nests and eggs held by museums, analysed tape recordings and critically reviewed the vast amount of material contained in books and scientific journals. The superb plates would not have been possible without the exhaustive study of specimens which, together with the use of photographs of living birds, has resulted in the artist, Richard Allen, capturing the essence of the birds, their 'jizz', and accurately portraying the beautiful, bright, often iridescent, plumages of these spectacular families. |
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Spis treści
SYSTEMATIC LIST | 6 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 12 |
STYLE AND LAYOUT OF THE SPECIES ACCOUNTS | 13 |
TOPOGRAPHY | 15 |
MORPHOLOGY | 16 |
RELATIONSHIPS AND TAXONOMY | 20 |
BEHAVIOUR | 22 |
PARASITES | 28 |
MORTALITY AND PREDATORS | 29 |
MIGRATION AND OTHER MOVEMENTS | 30 |
CONSERVATION | 31 |
COLOUR PLATES | 32 |
SYSTEMATIC SECTION | 129 |
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Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Sunbirds: A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and ... Robert A. Cheke,Clive F. Mann Podgląd niedostępny - 2001 |
Sunbirds: A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and ... Robert A. Cheke,Clive F. Mann Podgląd niedostępny - 2001 |
Sunbirds: A Guide to the Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters and ... Clive F. Mann,Robert A. Cheke Podgląd niedostępny - 2010 |
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Adult female Adult male Africa appears areas band Bangladesh belly bill birds blackish blue breast BREEDING bright Call central centre chin common Congo coverts crown dark brown darker Democratic Republic Described DESCRIPTION Dicaeum differs DISTRIBUTION dull east edges Eggs feathers feeding feet flanks flight Flowerpecker FOOD forest gardens GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION gloss grey HABITAT HABITS head IDENTIFICATION insects iridescent Iris Island Juvenile Kenya Known food-plants lacks less lined lower March mass mean MEASUREMENTS Wing metallic green MOVEMENTS narrow nectar nest nominate northern notes Occurs olive olive-green orange pairs pale paler patch pectoral tufts Plate plumage purple recorded REFERENCES rest of underparts rump scarlet secondary sides Similar Similar species slightly sometimes Song southern STATUS streaked stripe Sunbird Cinnyris tail Tanzania Text and map throat tips trees Uganda Unknown upper upperparts uppertail-coverts usually violet VOICE wash wing-coverts wings yellow yellowish