LIST OF PLATES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 BRAZIL: THE AREA COVERED; 2 BRAZIL: THE BIRDS; SYMBOLS, ABBREVIATIONS, AND GLOSSARY; PARTS OF A BIRD; SPECIES ACCOUNTS, PLATES, AND DISTRIBUTION MAPS; PROTECTED AREAS OF BRAZIL; NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER REFERENCES; APPENDIX 1: THE ENDEMICS OF BRAZIL; APPENDIX 2: ENGLISH-PORTUGUESE DICTIONARY; INDEX
Ber van Perlo is the author and illustrator of numerous popular field guides including Birds of Eastern Africa, Birds of Southern Africa, Birds of Western and Central Africa, and Birds of Mexico and Central America. Until 1991 he worked as a geographer and physical planner for the Dutch National Forest Service.
"Van Perlo's book can be considered the best bird field guide
produced so far for Brazil due to a combination of its light weight
and small size, thorough coverage of species, and generally good
quality and useful plates, text, and range maps."--The Quarterly
Review of Biology
"This latest publication of a field guide to Brazilian birds moves
the bar a couple of notches above the several existing recent
attempts, all of which have been published in Brazil. It is
certainly the single most useful book for field identification of
Brazil's enormous and complex birdlife currently available. If you
live in or soon plan to go birding in Brazil, buy this book and
make the best of it; it will help you immensely!"--AUK
"Any birdwatcher planning a trip to Brazil needs A Field Guide to
the Birds of Brazil. It is the first modern, in-depth guide to
Brazil's birds and offers information on size, call and identifying
features for nearly 2,000 birds. Clear color drawings pack a
portable dictionary including an English-Portuguese dictionary
especially for birders and some 1,700 species-distribution maps.
Simply invaluable."--Midwest Book Review
"Would I suggest to a traveling birder to buy one?
Absolutely."--Indiana Audubon Quarterly
"This is now the essential field guide companion that one would
need when visiting Brazil."--Idaho Birding Blog
"Highly recommended. The book will be useful to professional and
amateur ornithologists, both in Brazil and bordering
countries."--Choice
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