Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica

Richard Garrigues

ISBN 10: 1501700251 / ISBN 13: 9781501700255

Published by Cornell University Press, 2015

About this Item

Series: Zona Tropical Publications. Num Pages: 264 pages, halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371. . 2015. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781501700255

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501700251
• ISBN 13: 9781501700255
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Few ecosystem destinations are as abundant in their biodiversity as Costa Rica.

Having the right field guides in hand can make all the difference when you're enjoying the country’s birdlife. Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica, which features 549 excellent photographs, is designed to be equally useful for two distinct sets of readers. First are birders new to birding—or new to birding in Costa Rica—who want a guide to the birds that one is most likely to see, as well as to a few of the rarer species that one would hope to encounter. It treats more than 40 percent (365) of the species known from Costa Rica but is a guide to at least 75 percent of the birds commonly seen in a week or so of birding. 

The photographs in the species accounts in Photo Guide to Birds of Costa Rica are accompanied by names, measurements, field marks, habitat and behavior, voice, status and distribution, and range maps. 

The book will also be welcomed by experienced birders in search of a companion volume to The Birds of Costa Rica, second edition, an illustrated guide to all the birds of Costa Rica.

About the Author

Richard Garrigues is one of the preeminent birding guides in Costa Rica, with more than twenty-five years’ experience leading birding and natural history tours. He is the author of The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, second edition, illustrated by Robert Dean.