num_pages: 464
description: This is the ultimate identification guide to the nightjars potoos frogmouths Oilbird and owlet-nightjars of the world. Covering all 135 known species of these elusive and cryptically plumaged birds this illustrated guide features more than 580 superb color photographs depicting every species and many subspecies including numerous images never before published. Photos of museum specimens are provided for birds for which no images in the wild exist including species not seen since their original discovery. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features confusion species vocalizations distribution habitat and altitudinal range breeding season and sites egg type and clutch size downy chick status and Red List category. This easy-to-use photographic guide also includes a color distribution map for every species as well as sections on plumage taxonomy and more.
language: English
title: Nightjars, Potoos, Frogmouths, Oilbird, and Owlet-nightjars of the World
publisher: Princeton University Press