Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America The Passerines

Description

Author: Robert Ridgely
Illustrator: Guy Tudor
ISBN: 978-0-292-71979-8
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Year of Publication: 2009
760 pp., 256 color plates
Paperback

Recognizing the need for a more compact guide that birders can take into the field, Ridgely and Tudor extracted and updated the essential identification information from both volumes of The Birds of South America to create Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America The Passerines.

With the publication of the landmark volumes The Birds of South America: The Oscine Passerines (1989) and The Birds of South America II: The Suboscine Passerines (1994), Robert S. Ridgely and Guy Tudor established themselves as the leading authorities on the songbirds of South America.

Reviewers hailed the volumes as the essential reference works for professional ornithologists and avocational birders alike, and they remain the only volumes that provide full scientific coverage of the continent’s passerines.

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