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Birds of Borneo

Susan Myers

2nd edition

Christopher Helm

2016

"Birds of Borneo is the first comprehensive guide to the varied avifauna of this island biodiversity hotspot, which comprises the tiny state of Brunei, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian state of Kalimantan. More than 630 bird species have been recorded on Borneo and, using the most up-to-date taxonomy and nomenclature, this guide includes all recently split species and also gives full coverage of distinctive Bornean races where they differ from their counterparts on neighbouring islands or in mainland South-east Asia. Borneo is of particular ecological significance; the unique combination of its tropical latitude and the relief of the land, which includes high mountains and rainforests, has created many isolated micro-habitats which have enabled a remarkable number of different species of birds to evolve, many of which are endemic to the island. Every species recorded is described in detail with key identification characteristics and habitat information given, plus a colour distribution map."

Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros

Ian Sinclair and Olivier Langrand

Struik / New Holland

2nd edition

2013

"irds of the Indian Ocean Islands is a comprehensive guide to the bird life of Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes – an area that boasts high levels of endemism. This new, expanded edition is fully updated to reflect taxonomic changes, and now describes and illustrates 502 species. The species accounts cover the birds' appearance, basic behaviour, preferred habitats, geographical distribution and IUCN threat status. The text is complemented by newly designed plates with labels pinpointing key differentiating features. The introduction includes maps for each island, lists the region's 211 endemic species, and gives pointers on where to go bird-watching."

Rare Birds of North America

Steve N. G. Howell, Ian Lewington, Will Russell

2013

"Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions - the Old World, the New World tropics, and the world's oceans. It explains the causes of avian vagrancy and breaks down patterns of occurrence by region and season, enabling readers to see where, when, and why each species occurs in North America. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, taxonomy, age, sex, distribution, and status."

Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide

Volume 1: Field Guide

Volume 2: Attributes and Status

Pamela C. Rasmussen and John C. Anderton

Second edition

2012

"Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide is a comprehensive, two-volume, up-to-date work covering the over 2500 known and likely taxa of birds of the spectacularly diverse Indian subcontinent including, for the first time, Afghanistan and the Chagos Archipelago. Volume 1 is a Field Guide, bound separately for portability, while Volume 2 (Attributes and Status) contains much more detailed information. The second edition is revised and updated with the newest findings on vocalizations and taxonomy, including several taxa newly recorded for the region, species whose voice was previously unknown, and additional newly recognised species."

Multimedia Identification Guide to North Atlantic Seabirds: Storm-petrels & Bulwer's Petrel

Bob Flood and Ashley Fisher

Scilly Pelagics

2011

"Two DVDs with over 120 minutes of highly informative footage; over 200 pages of detailed and original text; over 130 colour photographs, most previously unpublished; over 40 stunning illustrations by Ian Lewington; large format colour range maps based on latest research. Species covered: White-faced Storm-petrel, Wilson's Storm-petrel, European Storm-petrel, Black-bellied Storm-petrel, `white-bellied' storm-petrels, Band-rumped Storm-petrel, Leach's Storm-petrel, Swinhoe's Storm-petrel, Matsudaira's Storm-petrel, and Bulwer's Petrel."

A Field Guide To The Birds of Borneo

Susan Myers

New Holland

2009

"A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo is the first comprehensive and accurate guide to the varied avifauna of this island biodiversity hot-spot, which comprises Brunei, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian states of Kalimantan. More than 630 bird species have been recorded in Borneo and, using the most up-to-date taxonomy and nomenclature, the guide includes all recently split species and also gives full coverage to the distinctive Bornean races where they differ from their counterparts on neighbouring islands or in mainland South-East Asia. Borneo is of particular ecological significance; the unique combination of its tropical latitude and the relief of the land, which includes high mountains and rainforests, has created many isolated micro-habitats which have enabled a remarkable number of different species of birds to evolve, many of which are endemic to the island. Every species recorded is described in detail with key identification characteristics and habitat information given, plus a colour distribution map. All species are illustrated in the 246-page full-colour ID section, with paintings by the same expert team of artists who worked on New Holland's celebrated A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia."

Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan

Susan Myers

Princeton Field Guides

Princeton University Press

2009

"This is the first comprehensive field guide to illustrate and describe the varied bird species of Borneo, an ecologically significant island comprising Brunei, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan. With close to 1,600 beautiful color illustrations and 630 color distribution maps, this up-to-date guide identifies and details more than 620 bird species by key characteristics and habitat information. It also includes all recently split species, and provides full coverage of the Bornean endemics and distinctive races when they differ from their counterparts on neighboring islands or in mainland Southeast Asia."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 14: Bush-Shrikes to Old World Sparrows

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2009

893 pages, 50 colour plates, 500 colour photos, 484 distribution maps.

This volume covers bushshrikes, helmetshrikes, vangas, drongos, wattlebirds, mud-builders, white-winged chough and apostlebird, woodswallows, bornean bristlehead, butcherbirds, birds-of-paradise, bowerbirds, crows, starlings, old world sparrows.

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2008

879 pages, 60 colour plates, 536 colour photos, 611 distribution maps.

This volume covers nuthatches, wallcreeper, treecreepers, philippine creepers, penduline tits, painted berrypeckers, berrypeckers and longbills, sunbirds, flowerpeckers, pardalotes, white-eyes, sugarbirds, honeyeaters, old world orioles, true shrikes.

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2007

815 pages, 56 colour plates, 436 colour photos, 638 distribution maps.

This volume Australasian robins, whistlers, rockfowl, babblers, pseudo-babblers, parrotbills, logrunner and chowcilla, whipbirds and quail-thrushes, long-tailed tits, fairywrens, thornbills, australian chats, sitellas, australasian treecreepers, tits and chickadees.

Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Volume 1: Non-Passerines

David R Wells

Illustrations: Philip Burton, David Digby, Dana Gardner, Peter Hayman, Ian lewington, David Quinn, Chris Rose

Christopher Helm

2007

"In this modern handbook you'll find over 380 non-passerine species described in meticulous detail using data derived from field and museum research, as well as an immense range of information from little known or previously unpublished sources. Seventy spectacular full-colour plates feature portraits of many species covered in the book, providing a beautiful pictorial reference from some of the world's leading artists. The book is also fully referenced to a bibliography of over 800 sources."

Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands

Andy Swash and Robert Still

2nd edition

2006

"This compact, well thought out and clearly presented book provides a comprehensive guide to the terrestrial vertebrates on Galapagos. It is simple to use, the text is concise and the innovative use of digital technology has produced a remarkable collection of plates. An informative guide of this kind will help everyone, from beginner to experienced naturalist."

Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands

Andy Swash and Robert Still

2006

"This simple-to-use, pocket-size volume offers a comprehensive guide to the unique wildlife of the Galápagos, encompassing all the birds, mammals, and reptiles a visitor to these extraordinary islands might encounter. The second edition corrects and amends plates and text, as well as adds six new photos of the whales."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers

Editors: Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliot and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2006

800 pages, 55 colour plates, over 300 photographs, 723 distribution maps.

This volume covers old world flycatchers, wattle-eyes, fantails, monarch-flycatchers, kinglets, gnatcatchers, cisticolas and allies and old world warblers.

Birds of Southeast Asia

Craig Robson

Princeton Field Guides

Princeton University Press

2005

"This concise, updated edition of the award-winning A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia (Princeton, 2000) is the most comprehensive, compact guide to this magnificent bird-rich region. It is a complete field and reference guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It also covers a wide range of species found in the Indian subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, and the Philippines."

Birds of South-East Asia

Craig Robson

New Holland

2005

"This concise edition of the award-winning field guide is both portable and compact, making the book accessible and key species easier to locate. With 142 colour plates, author Craig Robson details the plumage v ariations of over 1250 bird species found in South-east Asia and Thailand."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2005

895 pages, 80 colour plates, 400 colour photos, 737 distribution maps.

This volume covers cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, leafbirds, fairy-bluebirds, ioras, silky-flycatchers, waxwings, hypocolius, palmchat, dippers, wrens, mockingbirds and thrashers, accentors and thrushes.

Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros

Ian Sinclair and Olivier Langrand

2004

"Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands is the first comprehensive guide to the bird life of a region that embraces Madagascar, the Seychelles group, and the Comoros and the Mascarenes (comprising Mauritius, Reunion and Rodrigues). Together, these magical islands and the warm waters of the surrounding ocean host a total of 359 regularly encountered species, many of them endemic to the area, and all of them fully described here in clear, concise text. The species entries, which are accompanied by up-to-date distribution maps, highlight identification features, preferred habitats, current status, and vocalization. Each species is beautifully illustrated to show plumage details. A special chapter discusses the practicalities of birding in the region's main locations. The plates, of which there are 71, have been superbly researched and executed by Norman Arlott, Hillary Burn, Peter Hayman and Ian Lewington - among the world's leading bird artists."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2004

850 pages, 78 colour plates, colour photos, distribution maps.

This volume covers cotingas, manakins, tyrant-flycatchers, New Zealand wrens, scrub-birds, lyrebirds, larks, swallows, pipits and wagtails.

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie

Lynx Edicions

2003

845 pages, 81 colour plates, 470 colour photos, 672 distribution maps.

This volume covers broadbills, asities, pitas, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, typical antbirds, ground-antbirds, gnateaters and tapaculos.

Birds of Thailand

Craig Robson

Princeton Field Guides

Princeton University Press

2002

"Thailand is the mecca of birding in Southeast Asia. It's convenient to get to and get around, and its birdlife is wondrously diverse, exotic, and plentiful. With Birds of Thailand, Craig Robson and fourteen leading illustrators give us the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and concise field guide to this magnificent country's rich avifaunal heritage in recent years, covering the more than 950 species recorded as of early in the new millennium. Facing each of the 128 striking, full-color plates are species accounts accompanied by maps for each, illustrating precise distribution within Thailand. The accurate text covers identification, voice, habitat, behavior, range, status, and breeding for all species and subspecies. Illustrations and entries on a number of species recorded only quite recently are also included."

A Field Guide To The Birds of Thailand

Craig Robson

New Holland

2002

"Thailand continues to attract increasing numbers of birdwatchers on a regular basis who appreciate its vast diversity of bird life. This guide has colour artworks and location maps for all of the almost 1000 species covered. It details the identification, voice, breeding, status, habitat and distribution of all the distinctive species and subspecies of the region."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal

Lynx Edicions

2002

613 pages, 69 colour plates, over 300 colour photos, 402 distribution maps.

Families covered in this volume include jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, toucans, honeyguides, and woodpeckers.

Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands

Andy Swash and Robert Still

2000

"The first comprehensive photographic guide to all the birds, mammals and reptiles of the islands. Innovative, simple-to-use format for beginners or experts. Utilising latest digital photographic techniques, some of species never previously published. ID features, seasonal differences, status & habitat preferences. Colour distribution maps."

Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Volume 1: Non-Passerines

David R Wells

Illustrations: Philip Burton, David Digby, Dana Gardner, Peter Hayman, Ian lewington, David Quinn, Chris Rose

Academic Press

1999

"This volume covers the avifauna of the Republic of Singapore, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and the tip of Tenasserim (Burma), with their associated island archipelagos to latitude 11°N. This classic region of high biodiversity is home to a rich and special resident avifauna that is joined in season by a host of migrants from north Asia to create a fascinating faunal mix. Most of its bird species, and nearly all of those endemic to the region, reside in tropical forest habitats. Until surprisingly recently, these forests clothed most of the area. Now, one of the tropical world's fastest rates of agricultural conversion has swept them from all but a fraction of their former range, opening space to newcomers with quite different ecological requirements - a truly dramatic conservation problem under constant watch by ornithologists in all places accessible to field workers."

The Auks

Anthony J. Gaston, Ian L. Jones & Ian Lewington

Oxford University Press

1998

349 pages, 8 colour plates, black and white photographs, 44 line drawings, maps

A study of the entire Auk family. The first part of the book comprises general chapters on Auks and their world, systematics and evolution, distribution and biogeography, Auks in ecosystems, social behaviour, chick development and the transition from land to sea and populations and conservation. The second part comprises individual species accounts. All species are illustrated in new colour plates by Ian Lewington especially commissioned for this volume.

Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles and the Comoros

Ian Sinclair and Olivier Langrand

1998

"Following in the format of Sasol Birds of Southern Africa, this guide presents all the birds of Madagascar and the other Indian Ocean islands (Seychelles, Reunion, Mauritius and Mascarenes), a great many species of which are endemic to these islands. In field guide form, this text presents concise descriptions of each species, highlighting diagnostic features for ease of identification. Differences between sexes and plumages are discussed as well as the status of the bird, its habitat and call. Distribution maps accompany each entry. The birds are illustrated in full colour and where necessary are depicted in all plumages relevant to identification (male, female and immature). In-flight illustrations present the bird from above and below, providing comprehensive coverage of the birds in the field."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 5: Barn-Owls to Hummingbirds

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal

Lynx Edicions

1998

759 pages, 76 colour plates, 406 colour photos, 758 distribution maps.

This volume covers covered are barn owls, typical owls, oilbirds, frogmouths, owlet-nightjars, potoos, nightjars, swifts, tree-swifts and hummingbirds.

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 4: Sandgrouse to Cuckoos

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal

Lynx Edicions

1997

680 pages, 70 colour plates, 250 colour photos, 850 distribution maps.

This volume covers sandgrouse, pigeons and doves, cockatoos, parrots, turacos and cuckoos.

A Field Guide to the Birds of Armenia

Martin S. Adamian and Daniel Klem Jr

American University of Armenia

1997

"A Field Guide to Birds of Armenia clearly and effectively documents the bird life of a region largely unknown in the West but richly endowed with biological and cultural diversity. Here an international team of expert ornithologists shines the international spotlight on the fascinating birds of Armenia in one of the world's newest and very best regional field guides.The authors and their expert collaborators describe the beauty and pleasure of Armenian birds and their diverse habitats. No other work offers such effective descriptions of Armenian birds. The detailed knowledge of species distributions and relative abundances will promote and ensure wise stewardship of birds as a valuable Armenian natural resource. An especially valuable contribution is the identification of species that are suspected or known to be at risk. Highlighting these species of special concern will encourage Armenian as well as international conservation efforts to maintain and,when appropriate, rebuild viable populations to these lands."

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 3: Hoatzin to Auks

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal

Lynx Edicions

1996

821 pages, 60 colour plates, colour photos, distribution maps.

This volume covers 30 families including cranes, bustards, rails, gulls, terns, waders and auks.

The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Volume IX. Buntings and New World Warblers

Senior Editor: Stanley Cramp, C. M. Perrins

Executive editor: Duncan J. Brooks

Illustrations: Norman Arlott, Trevor Boyer, Ian Lewington and CE Talbot-Kelly

Oxford University Press

1994

Describes 61 species recorded in the Western Palearctic. Covers the new world warblers, tanagers, buntings and allies, cardinals, grosbeaks, new world blackbirds, and orioles and allies.

The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Volume VIII. Crows to Finches

Senior Editor: Stanley Cramp, C. M. Perrins

Executive editor: Duncan J. Brooks

Illustrations: Hilary Burn, P.J.K. Burton, Ian Lewington, Darren Rees and Chris Rose

Oxford University Press

1994

Describes 73 species including crows and allies, starlings, sparrows, rock sparrows, snow finches, weavers and allies, waxbills, grassfinches, mannikens, vireos and finches.

Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl

Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal

Lynx Edicions

1994

638 pages, 60 colour plates, 302 colour photos, 590 distribution maps.

This volume covers: New World vultures, osprey, hawks & eagles, secretarybird, caracaras & falcons, megapodes, chachalacas, guans & curassows, turkeys, grouse, New World quails, partridges & pheasants, and guineafowl.

Birds Of Oxfordshire

Editor: J.W. Brucker, A.G. Gosler and A.R. Heryet

1992

"This book is the first authoritative and comprehensive guide to birds and bird habitats of Oxfordshire. Its opening chapter reviews the long-established history of birdwatching and ornithology in the County. Drawing on the mass of information collected over the past century, the profound changes which have occurred to Oxfordshire's towns and countryside are described and their effects on birdlife reviewed. The book incorporates the result of the Atlas of Breeding Birds in Oxfordshire Project, which mapped the distribution of all the county's breeding birds between 1985 and 1988 and the Atlas results are shown as 87 distribution maps in Chapter Four. Accounts are given of all the species which have been recorded in the county since records began and every breeding species is skillfully illustrated by Oxfordshire's leading bird artists."

The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Volume VI. Warblers

Executive Editor: Stanley Cramp and Duncan J Brooks

Illustrations: Alan Harris, Ian Lewington, DIM Wallace, and Dan Zetterstrom

Oxford University Press

1992

"The second of three volumes covering the passerines, containing descriptions of 64 species of warbler. Each breeding species is covered in full, with details of field characters, habitat, distribution, mortality, population, movements, food, behaviour, breeding, voice, plumages, moults, measurements, weights, structure, and geographical variation. Regular migrants and accidental species are covered in similar detail. There are maps showing breeding and wintering distribution. Each species is illustrated on colour plates, showing the full range of normal plumages, plus distant flight views. There are also colour plates of eggs, black and white illustrations, and text-figures showing special features, sonagrams and melograms, and annual cycles. Finally, there is a comprehensive bibliography and index."

A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe

Ian Lewington, P Alstrom, P. Colston

1991

A guide to all the rare, accidental and vagrant birds reliably recorded in Britain and Europe. Covering over 300 species, this major publication is intended as a companion to Peterson, Mountfort and Hollom's Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, and it is hoped to update it every 2-3 years as new species are recorded. For each species covered, details of all plumages are given, with brief descriptions of habitat and behaviour, range, and status. For each there is a small text drawing. The colour plates usually illustrate adults of both sexes (unless the sexes are indistinguishable in the field), but distinctive seasonal or age differences in plumage are also illustrated.

Rare Birds in Britain & Ireland

J.N. Dymond, P.A. Fraser, and S.J. Gantlett

Poyser

1989

"A study of more than 300 species of scarce and rare birds that were recorded in Britain and Ireland between 1958 and 1985. Additional rarities from outside this period are also listed. The book succeeds two earlier Poyser publications; Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock 1974) and Rare birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock 1976)."