This book is the first definitive ornithological field guide to New Guinea, the world's second largest island and one of the richest tropical environments in the Old World. Because of its isolation, New Guinea’s biota includes spectacular radiations of unusual plants and animals (of which the birds of paradise are perhaps best known). The region has long attracted naturalists, ecologists, and anthropologists. This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region, illustrating more than 600 of them in forty-seven fine color plates and eight black-and-white halftone plates. The text contains species accounts treating identification, distribution, ecology, vocalizations, and behavior. This is preceded by a detailed introduction to the region, with sections on climate, biogeography, rainforest ecology, and conservation. 
 A chief contribution of the book is the wealth of information on the habits of many of the region’s little-known species. Included is an ornithological gazetteer, along with four maps showing natural features and important ornithological localities.

Birds of New Guinea

History

Beehler, Bruce M.

Zimmerman, Dale A.

Pratt, Thane K.

Australia & Oceania

Princeton University Press

Birds of New Guinea (Handbook (Wau Ecology Institute), No. 9.)

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Nature & Ecology

Birds of New Guinea: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides)

This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as an exceptionally diverse assemblage of songbirds such as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Birds of New Guinea is the only guide to cover all 780 bird species reported in the area, including 366 endemics. Expanding its coverage with 111 vibrant color plates―twice as many as the first edition―and the addition of 635 range maps, the book also contains updated species accounts with new information about identification, voice, habits, and range. A must-have for everyone from ecotourists to field researchers, Birds of New Guinea remains an indispensable guide to the diverse birds of this remarkable region. 
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<li>780 bird species, including 366 found nowhere else</li>
<li>111 stunning color plates, twice the number of the first edition</li>
<li>Expanded and updated species accounts provide details on identification, voice, habits, and range</li>
<li>635 range maps</li>
<li>Revised classification of birds reflects the latest research</li>
</ul>

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The definitive field guide to the marvelous birds of New Guinea
This is the completely revised edition of the essential field guide to the birds of New Guinea. The world's largest tropical island, New Guinea boasts a spectacular avifauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, cuckoos, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as an exceptionally diverse assemblage of songbirds such as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Birds of New Guinea is the only guide to cover all 780 bird species reported in the area, including 366 endemics. Expanding its coverage with 111 vibrant color plates―twice as many as the first edition―and the addition of 635 range maps, the book also contains updated species accounts with new information about identification, voice, habits, and range. A must-have for everyone from ecotourists to field researchers, Birds of New Guinea remains an indispensable guide to the diverse birds of this remarkable region. 
<ul>
<li>780 bird species, including 366 found nowhere else</li>
<li>111 stunning color plates, twice the number of the first edition</li>
<li>Expanded and updated species accounts provide details on identification, voice, habits, and range</li>
<li>635 range maps</li>
<li>Revised classification of birds reflects the latest research</li>
</ul>

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. This comprehensive annotated checklist of distribution, taxonomy, and systematics of the birds of New Guinea is the first formal review of this avifauna since Ernst Mayr's Checklist, published in 1941. This new book brings together all the systematic, taxonomic, and distributional research conducted on the region's bird families over the last 70 years.
Bruce Beehler and Thane Pratt provide the scientific foundation for the names, geographic distributions, and systematic arrangement of New Guinea's bird fauna. All technical information is annotated and a geographic gazetteer and bibliography are included. This book is an ideal complement to the Birds of New Guinea field guide also published by Princeton, and is an essential technical reference for all scientific libraries, ornithologists, and those interested in bird classification. 
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<li>The first complete revision of the New Guinea bird fauna since 1941</li>
<li>Accounts for 75 bird species new to the region</li>
<li>Includes a geographic gazetteer, bibliography, and explanations of taxonomic and systematic classifications</li>
</ul>

Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics

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Birds of New Guinea

Birds of New Guinea (Handbook (Wau Ecology Institute), No. 9.)

Birds of New Guinea: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides)

Birds of New Guinea: Second Edition (Princeton Field Guides)

Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics