Shrikes and Bush-shrikes: Including Wood-shrikes, Helmet-shrikes, Shrike Flycatchers, Philentomas, Batises and Wattle-eyes

Przednia okładka
A&C Black, 30 cze 2010 - 392
The book covers the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, the closely related shrike flycatchers, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes.

This book offers information on 114 species in 21 genera within the families Laniidae and Malaconotidae. For each genus, acoustic and visual signals are summarized and used to map similarities.

The detailed species account for the bulk of the book, providing knowledge on field identification, plumage descriptions, geographical variation, moult, distribution, movements. general and foraging behaviour, food, sounds and breeding behaviour.
 

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Preface
9
Acknowledgements
10
Sponsorship
11
Layout and methods
12
Introduction
14
Colour plates and distribution maps
55
Species accounts
139
Eurocephalus anguitimens Plate 1
140
Laniarius ruficeps Plate 23
253
Laniarius liberatus Plate 23
254
Laniarius ferrugineus Plate 24
255
Laniarius aethiopicus Plate 24
257
Laniarius turatii Plate 24
260
Laniarius bicolor Plate 24
261
Dryoscopus senegalensis Plate 25
262
Dryoscopus cubla Plate 25
264

Corvinella melanoleuca Plate 1
142
Corvinella corvina Plate 1
144
Lanius sphenocercus Plate 2
146
Lanius excubitoroides Plate 2
148
Lanius excubitor Plate 3
150
Lanius meridionalis Plate 4
155
Lanius ludovicianus Plate 5
159
Lanius minor Plate 5
163
Lanius mackinnoni Plate 6
167
Lanius cabanisi Plate 6
169
Lanius dorsalis Plate 6
170
Lanius somalicus Plate 7
171
Lanius collaris Plate 7
172
Lanius newtoni Plate 7
177
Lanius nubicus Plate 8
178
Lanius senator Plate 8
180
Lanius bucephalus Plate 8
184
Lanius cristatus Plate 9
186
Lanius isabellinus Plate 9
189
Lanius tigrinus Plate 10
193
Lanius souzae Plate 10
195
Lanius collurio Plate 10
197
Lanius gubernator Plate 11
202
Lanius vittatus Plate 11
203
Lanius collurioides Plate 11
205
Lanius schach Plate 12
206
Lanius tephronotus Plate 12
210
Lanius validirostris Plate 12
211
Malaconotus lagdeni Plate 13
212
Malaconotus? alius Plate 13
214
Malaconotus cruentus Plate 14
215
Malaconotus blanchoti Plate 14
217
Malaconotus monteiri Plate 15
220
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus Plate 15
221
Chlorophoneus boeagei Plate 15
223
Chlorophoneus multicolor Plate 16
225
Chlorophoneus nigrifrons Plate 17
226
Chlorophoneus olivaceus Plate 18
229
Chlorophoneus? kupeensis Plate 19
230
Chlorophoneus viridis Plate 19
232
Chlorophoneus dohertyi Plate 19
234
Telophorus zeylonus Plate 20
235
Rhodophoneus cruentus Plate 20
238
Laniarius leucorhynchus Plate 21
240
Laniarius poensis Plate 21
241
Laniarius fuelleborni Plate 21
242
Laniarius funebris Plate 21
243
Laniarius atrococcineus Plate 22
245
Laniarius erythrogaster Plate 22
247
Laniarius barbarus Plate 22
248
Laniarius mufumbiri Plate 22
249
Laniarius atroflavus Plate 23
250
Laniarius luehderi Plate 23
251
Dryoscopus pringlii Plate 25
266
Dryoscopus gambensis Plate 26
267
Dryoscopus angolensis Plate 26
269
Dryoscopus sabini Plate 26
270
Antichromus minuta Plate 27
271
Tehagra senegala Plate 27
273
Tchagra tchagra Plate 27
275
Tehagra australis Plate 28
277
Tchagra jamesi Plate 28
279
Tephrodornis gularis Plate 28
281
Tephrodornis pondicerianus Plate 28
283
Megabyas flammulatus Plate 29
284
Bias musicus Plate 29
286
Philentoma pyrhopterum Plate 29
289
Philentoma velatum Plate 29
290
Nilaus afer Plate 30
291
Lanioturdus torquatus Plate 30
294
Batis capensis Plate 31
296
Batis margaritae Plate 31
299
Batis mixta Plate 31
300
Batis fratrum Plate 31
301
Batis pririt Plate 32
303
Batis molitor Plate 32
304
Batis soror Plate 32
307
Batis senegalensis Plate 32
309
Batis orientalis Plate 33
311
Batis perkeo Plate 33
312
Batis minor Plate 33
313
Batis minulla Plate 33
315
Batis poensis Plate 34
317
Batis minima Plate 34
319
Batis diops Plate 34
320
Batis ituriensis Plate 34
321
Platysteira laticincta Plate 35
322
Platysteira peltata Plate 35
323
Platysteira cyanea Plate 35
326
Platysteira albifrons Plate 36
328
Dyaphorophyia tonsa Plate 36
329
Dyaphorophyia castanea Plate 36
331
Dyaphorophyia blissetti Plate 37
334
Dyaphorophyia jamesoni Plate 37
335
Dyaphorophyia concreta Plate 38
337
Prionops plumatus Plate 39
340
Prionops poliolophus Plate 39
344
Prionops scopifrons Plate 39
345
Prionops caniceps Plate 40
347
Prionops retzii Plate 41
349
Prionops gabela Plate 41
353
References
355
Problems of species limits and relationships
379
Comparative characters
384
Index
390
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Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia

Africa Angola Arthropods barred Batis Bill black bill to skull bill-snapping birds black face-mask Black-headed Batis Boubou breast breast-band BREEDING BIOLOGY brown Brown Shrike buff bush Bush-shrike calls Cameroon chestnut-brown Chinspot Chinspot Batis Chlorophoneus courtship coverts crown dark DESCRIPTION ADULT display duet duller ear-coverts edged feathers FIELD IDENTIFICATION flanks Fledge flight Foraging behaviour forest Gabon GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION grey greyish greyish-brown Habitat HABITAT and STATUS harsh head Helmet-shrike IMMATURE insects Juvenile Kenya Laniarius Lanius Little known loud mainly Malawi mantle montane morph moult Mozambique nest nestlings non-breeding Orthoptera pairs pale paler perch Plate plumage prey Prionops Puffback races Red-backed Shrike repeated rufous rufous-brown rump savanna scapulars Sexes similar Shrike Solitary Somalia sounds species spots STATUS Breeding range Tanzania tarsus Tchagra tertials throat tinged tipped trees Tropical Boubou Uganda undertail-coverts upperparts usually Wattle-eye whistles white eyebrow whitish wing-coverts wing-fripping wing-stripe wings and tail woodland yellow Zaïre Zambia Zimbabwe

Informacje o autorze (2010)

Tony Harris is Associate Curator in the Department of Birds at the Transvaal Museum in South Africa, where he established the Fitzpatrick Bird Communication Library. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork and sound recording in southern Africa and has been researching shrike taxonomy and systematics for many years. He is the author of Shrikes of Southern Africa.

Kim Franklin, a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, has exhibited his work in countries throughout Europe and Africa. His illustrations have appeared in numerous books, including Birds of the Western Palearctic, Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, and the award-winning Parrots.

Informacje bibliograficzne

TytułShrikes and Bush-shrikes: Including Wood-shrikes, Helmet-shrikes, Shrike Flycatchers, Philentomas, Batises and Wattle-eyes
Helm Identification Guides
AutorTony Harris
Autor ilustracjiKim Franklin
Wydanieilustrowane
WydawcaA&C Black, 2010
ISBN1408134594, 9781408134597
Liczba stron392
  
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