New World Blackbirds: The Icterids (Helm Identification Guides)

Alvaro Jaramillo and Peter Burke

ISBN 10: 0713643331 / ISBN 13: 9780713643336

Published by Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, London, UK, 1999

About this Item

First printing. Very tightly bound in clean red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Very lightly bumped at spine ends. Text pages and illustrations all fine with no markings or inscriptions, small mark to top edge of text block. D/J is unclipped with just very light edge rubbing. Postage will be at cost but an increase may be necessary for international destinations. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New World Blackbirds: The Icterids (Helm Identification Guides)
• Publisher: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd, London, UK
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713643331
• ISBN 13: 9780713643336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1109 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A guide to the family Icteridae, known as blackbirds, troupials or New World Blackbirds. A diverse family, the Icterids range throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Cape Horn, and including the Caribbean. Despite the name blackbird", many of the 103 species covered in this book are very brightly coloured , and the group includes some of the most studied species in the world, Red-winged Blackbird and Brown-headed Cowbird for instance. This book depicts every species, showing races where relevant, and covering every aspect of the natural history and identification of the species treated. There are distribution maps and line drawings which illustrate aspects of bird behaviour."

About the Author

Alvaro Jaramillo was born in Santiago, Chile, but raised in Toronto, where he became a birder at the age of 11. He holds a Zoology degree and a Masters degree in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Toronto. He currently works for the Coyote Creek Riparian Station, a bird observatory and research facility in San Jose, California. He also leads birding trips in North and South America. He is currently working on a field guide to the birds of Chile with Peter Burke and David Beadle. Peter Burke, a Biology graduate, has been drawing and painting birds for twenty years, but has been a professional artist only since the mid-1990s. He has traveled to Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico to prepare sketches for this guide. He has also illustrated a guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of eastern Canada.