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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.875
Fabric Type: 9780713651164
Legal Disclaimer: 0713651164
Maximum Color Depth: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
Metal Type: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
Region Code: 404
Total External Bays Free: April 30, 1999
Total Firewire Ports: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
The tanagers of the Western Hemisphere, write ornithologists Morton and Phyllis Isler, belong to a rather fluid category of birds known as the "nine-primaried oscines," songbirds whose tiny outermost wing primary is concealed. That category includes many kinds of birds--cardinals, buntings, and warblers among them--and, the Islers suggest, the old taxonomies simply will not do. Even so, for the time being tanagers enjoy separate status as a monophyletic group, and one interesting enough to warrant not only birdwatchers' attention, but also the authors' compilation of this thoroughgoing reference book. It takes in some 240 fructivorous and insectivorous species distributed widely in space, from Alaska to southern Chile, offering detailed notes on their habitat, behavior, range, breeding habits, and vocalizations. Some tanager species, the authors explain, are intensely localized; Orchesticus abeillei, for example, inhabits only a few montane forests in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Others are far more wide-ranging, among them the northern hepatic tanager, Piranga flava, which is found from Central America to as far north as Illinois. Admirers of these beautiful birds will find much of value in the Islers' pages, and they'll want to have this well-illustrated guidebook in their backpacks or bookshelves. --Gregory McNamee
Product Description:
Tanagers are found in virtually all wooded tropical habitats, on the shaded streets of major South American cities, in the streaming rainforests and at the cold treeline of the high Andes. This is a guide to the 242 highly colourful species of tanager found in the Americas. The 32 colour plates show 551 tanager plumages, illustrating every species, as well as 263 distribution maps.
Average Rating: 
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It is an excellent book overall with a great wealth of information but one thing really upset me: The fact that they do not describe or even nominate most of the subspecies. For example: It describes E. chlorotica and says that it has five subspecies but do not describe any and do not give any of the subspecies names! Only because of these omissions, this book does not earn a 5 star rating. Recommended!
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