Birds of Venezuela
By: by Steven L. Hilty ; principal illustrators, John A. Gwynne and Guy Tudor ; additional color plates by Alejandro Grajal, Larry B. McQueen, and Sophie Webb ; line drawings by Michel Kleinbaum and John A. Gwynne.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 878
Description: Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together under one cover much of what is known about these species. Its users can identify all the birds in this vast country, from the Caribbean coast in the north to the Amazonian jungles in the south, from the Andes in the west to the Gran Sabana plateau in the east. With a completely new text by Steven Hilty, Birds of Venezuela is a greatly expanded and thoroughly reformatted successor to the pioneering Guide to the Bird of Venezuela (Princeton, 1978).