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The World Atlas of Birds
This comprehensive reference guide to the birds of the world includes beautiful full-color illustrations of 500 species of birds, as well as more than 200 line drawings. With color maps and diagrams, tour the globe's eight geographic regions and see the birds that inhabit them, including
• North American Hawk Owl
• Toucan of tropical South America
• Australian Lyrebird
• Magnificent Frigatebird of the Caribbean Islands
• Himalayan Monal of southern Asia
• Emperor Penguin of Antarctica
Scientific and detailed, yet clear and concise, this is the ultimate illustrated reference to birds.
• North American Hawk Owl
• Toucan of tropical South America
• Australian Lyrebird
• Magnificent Frigatebird of the Caribbean Islands
• Himalayan Monal of southern Asia
• Emperor Penguin of Antarctica
Scientific and detailed, yet clear and concise, this is the ultimate illustrated reference to birds.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published January 3, 2006
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About the author
Peter Markham Scott
44 books2 followersGenerally known as Sir Peter Scott.
He represented Great Britain at sailing in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in the O-Jolle class single-handed dinghy at Kiel.
During World War II, Scott served in the Royal Navy. He served first in destroyers in the North Atlantic but moved to commanding the First (and only) Squadron of Steam Gun Boats against German E-boats in the English Channel. He is also jointly credited with designing 'shadow camouflage', which disguised the look of ship superstructure. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery.
He was the skipper in the 1964 challenge for the America's Cup and from 1955-69 was the president of the International Sailing Federation. In 1963 he won the National Open Gliding Championship.
One of the founders of the World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly: World Wildlife Fund), and designer of the famous panda logo. He devised the Red Data Books for documenting endangered species of flora and fauna. Founder of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (formerly: Severn Wildfowl Trust) at Slimbridge.
He represented Great Britain at sailing in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in the O-Jolle class single-handed dinghy at Kiel.
During World War II, Scott served in the Royal Navy. He served first in destroyers in the North Atlantic but moved to commanding the First (and only) Squadron of Steam Gun Boats against German E-boats in the English Channel. He is also jointly credited with designing 'shadow camouflage', which disguised the look of ship superstructure. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery.
He was the skipper in the 1964 challenge for the America's Cup and from 1955-69 was the president of the International Sailing Federation. In 1963 he won the National Open Gliding Championship.
One of the founders of the World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly: World Wildlife Fund), and designer of the famous panda logo. He devised the Red Data Books for documenting endangered species of flora and fauna. Founder of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (formerly: Severn Wildfowl Trust) at Slimbridge.
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January 14, 2025
A fine survey of the planet of birds organized by main continental bioregions and further subdivided by major habitat types, with several, nicely detailed examples of the denizens of each. The appendix provides a order+family-level taxonomy, per the thinking current in the early '70's, i.e., pre-Sibley & Alquist DNA, which is interesting in its own right. About as nice a presentation of ecology, species-level detail and artwork as I could imagine in a manageable 280 pp. This is the Americanized edition of a British work - all non-metric units plus a misleadingly all-American set of species gracing the dust jacket.
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