New World WarblersA&C Black, 30 cze 2010 - 264 Following the same format as other book in the series, this guide to North American wood warblers, the parulinae, looks at their distribution throughout the USA and into Central and South America. New World warblers are one of the most colourful, popular and enigmatic groups of North American birds. This is the first time comprehensive guide to the identification, ageing and sexing of all 116 species. Thirty-six colour plates show the major age, sex and racial variations for all species (many of which have never been fully illustrated before). They are accompanied by colour distribution maps and black-and-white drawings. Jon Curson's up-to-the-minute text is based on over ten years' field research in North, South and Central America coupled with meticulous museum work by both author and artists. The book contains a full text for each species, including wing-formulae drawings. Some of the species covered find their way to the UK and Europe. New World Warblers represents a significant step forward in our knowledge of one of the most beautiful and conspicuous groups of North American birds. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Acknowledgements | 2 |
Explanation of Plates Maps and Text | 4 |
Taxonomy | 12 |
Evolution | 13 |
Dimorphism and Breeding Behaviour | 15 |
Hybrids | 17 |
Conservation | 19 |
Colour Plates | 21 |
Systematic Section | 95 |
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adult female Adult male allospecies average belly birds blackish breast sides breeding grounds BREEDING Nest brighter broadest on coverts Central America cilium Colombia Common Yellowthroat contrasting Costa Rica crown patch dark darker distinct dusky ear-coverts eastern Ecuador eye-crescents eye-ring eye-stripe First-year female First-year male First-years/adults flanks Fledging forecrown forest fresh plumage GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION Golden-crowned Warbler greater and median greater coverts greyish HABITAT HABITAT AND HABITS head and upperparts head pattern lacking lateral crown-stripes latter broadest lores lower underparts mainly mantle MEASUREMENTS Wing median coverts Mexico migration mixed-species feeding flocks montane MOULT Juveniles nape neck sides non-breeding northern northwestern occurs olive-brown olive-green pale buff plumage rectrices remiges rufous rump Similar year-round slightly duller Song southern species STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION supercilium superspecies supraloral Tarsus tepuis tertials throat and breast tinge tips underparts undertail-coverts upper breast usually Venezuela VOICE Calls wash western Whitestart whitish wingbars wings and tail yellow underparts yellowish Yellowthroat