num_pages: 584
description: The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central AmericaBirds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region including Belize Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua Costa Rica and Panama. Handy and compact the book presents text and illustrations for nearly 1200 resident and migrant species and information on all rare vagrants. Two hundred sixty detailed plates on convenient facing-page spreads depict differing ages and sexes for each species with a special focus on geographic variation. The guide also contains up-to-date range maps and concise notes on distribution habitat behavior and voice. An introduction provides a brief overview of the regions landscape climate and biogeography.The culmination of more than a decade of research and field experience Birds of Central America is an indispensable resource for all those interested in the bird life of this part of the world.
language: English
title: Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
publisher: Princeton University Press