Birds of South America: Passerines (Princeton Illustrated Checklists), by Ber van Perlo
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This comprehensive field guide to the birds of South America covers all 1,952 passerine species to be found south of Panama, including offshore islands such as Trinidad, the Galapagos, and the Falklands, and the islands of the Scotia Arc leading to the Antarctic mainland. It features 197 stunning color plates and detailed species accounts that describe key identification features, habitat, songs, and calls. All plumages for each species are illustrated, including males, females, and juveniles. This easy-to-use guide is the essential travel companion for experienced birdwatchers and novice birders alike.
- Combines a clear format with a wealth of detailed information
- Features 197 color plates that aid identification
- Covers key identification features with information on habitat, songs, and calls
- Includes a distribution map for each species
- Amazon Sales Rank: #107923 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x 1.20" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
Review One of Audubon's 12 Best Bird Books of 2015"This book looks to be a must have in your library."--William Saur, Passionate Birder Blog"Very easy to flick through and get a quick impression of what may be unfamiliar families."--Birdwatch"The ideal guide to take on your travels."--British Ornithologists' Union"This guide, by award-winning author and illustrator Ber van Perlo, includes all 1,952 passerine species found in south Panama, along with islands such as Trinidad, the Falklands, and the Galapagos."--Emily Silber, Audubon.com"Making sense out of 1,952 species of anything is a monumental task, but Perlo . . . has done just that in this excellent guide. . . . He also illustrated the volume. Remarkable. . . . This book will probably become a must-have field guide for birding enthusiasts visiting South America, and will be found in all libraries with significant ornithological holdings."--P. K. Lago, Choice
About the Author Ber van Perlo is the award-winning author and illustrator of Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific; Birds of Eastern Africa; Birds of Southern Africa; Birds of Western and Central Africa; and Birds of Mexico and Central America (all Princeton).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. The new and improved review. By J. J. Roper I previously jumped to conclusions about this book. Now, after having better chance to look it over better, I'll have to say that it is the best guide of its type. The illustrations are very good, but not as good as Ridgely and Tudor's "Songbirds of South America" BUT, van Perlo's book is more compact and much more convenient because the text, with maps, and illustrations are on facing pages. That is a huge plus to me. And, with that said about the illustrations, I'll add that having very good illustrations, maps and text all on the same pages makes the book much better to use in the field. Also, it is less than half the weight of R&T's book. The taxonomy is up-to-date, which is another plus.My earlier less-than-ideal review was based on some erroneous information and my own conclusions. I would love to have this book as a Kindle book with the same format, that I could use on my smart phone! The version I have of a previous book is a little complicated but, it is still good enough that I use it rather than other guides. If this book comes out in kindle, I will certainly try it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Probably van Perlo's best illustrations so far. By Mike R. This new book is intended to be a companion volume to the older "Birds of South America - Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers" by Erize, Mata, and Rumboll. It is similarly compact as that title, but a little thicker. With this new book on the South American passerines by van Perlo, all the known species of birds from that continent are now illustrated in a compact two volume set, with accompanying text and range maps on the facing page. Both volumes are nearly identical in layout and are very easy to use.I've long been a fan of Ber van Perlo's loose, free style of bird illustration. I know painterly or "sketchy" work isn't everyone's cup of tea, but van Perlo's work has some strengths that some other illustrators are weak in, including many who turn in tighter, slicker looking work. To my eye he has usually been pretty consistent about capturing a bird's gestalt in his drawings, although the colors are sometimes a little off. In his other books similar to this one, the plates also tend to be crowded with very small figures, all more or less standard "cookie cutter" side views which emphasized male breeding plumage. That's fine, it's doubtless hard to avoid that in a compact format where so many species are featured. Yet I'm happy to see that in this new book the author has taken a different approach. Namely there is a better use of the small space provide on the page. In this new book the figures on the plates average a little larger than in his other books, and many distinct female plumages are shown complete, not mostly hidden behind the drawing of the male. In a few instances the female gets a full illustration and there is only a head shown for the male (all those gray male antbirds which look more or less alike). Generally the poses are more varied and lively than in van Perlo's other books. The plates are less crowded, the vast majority showing only ten species, so there is no flipping around to look for texts or maps on adjacent pages.There is another, much bulkier book on the passerines, or song birds of South America by Ridgley and Tudor, which recycles and updates the illustrations from their earlier two volume "Birds of South America". It's called "Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America: The Passerines." It is also an excellent book, and Guy Tudor's illustrations are simply marvelous. If you were to only have one field guide type book on the passerines of South America, you might want that one instead, because of the more extensive and detailed text. But it doesn't quite illustrate all the species, and as mentioned, it's much larger and heavier than this new book by van Perlo, which can't be beat if you intend to bird in widely separated regions and wish to travel light.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. second volume of a pair that might be indispensable in some instances By G. Hunter Probably a second or even third reference (along with its companion volume devote to non-passerines) for any one country or even region, in which instance the illustrations (often depicting a range of geographic variation), the distribution maps and the concise species accounts might prove quite helpful. Both volumes would be in my estimation essential for any birder traversing more than one South American region or any country not adequately covered by its own guide. An added benefit is the insight into current taxonomic thinking.
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