Pittas of the World - Hardcover

Erritzoe, Johannes; Erritzoe, Helga Boullet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718829611 ISBN 13: 9780718829612

Publisher: Lutterworth Press, 2001

Synopsis

Found in the tropics, pittas are brightly colored and unforgettable for those who have seen them flash past... a living jewel in the rainforest. This monograph, beautifully painted with gouache dry-brush technique, is laid out to show the characteristics of each species together with details of sex, age, date, locality and museum where each bird-skin is kept, with its registration number. It also has a complete list of all scientific synonyms; a bibliography of more than 1,300 references; a list of all islands where pittas have been found (and their status if known); and a list of museum holdings worldwide of pitta skins, eggs and fluid specimens. The book also contains a study of the little known dusky stripes, a phenomenon unique to the pitta and never described before; and demonstrates a unique moulting pattern where immatures, moulting into adult plumage, are often found with naked head and neck. This beautiful scientifically based book is an invaluable guide for ornithologists, pitta researchers, conservationists, and museums.

About this title

About the Author:

Johannes Erritzoe has been working with birds as both a writer and a naturalist for nearly forty years, and is a member of a number of ornithological and conservation societies around the world. He has been married for seventeen years to wildlife artist Helga Boullet, who illustrated this book, and who has exhibited her work in Denmark and the Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0718829611
• ISBN 13: 9780718829612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208