The first guide to illustrate in color every species (1140) of bird found in southern South America and Antarctica. The text details habitat, key identification features including songs and calls. Includes range map for each species.

Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica (Collins Illustrated Checklist)

Science & Math

de la Peña, Martin R.

Rumboli, Maurice

Biological Sciences

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

South America, though home to about one-third of the world's bird species and twice as many endemic families of birds as any other continent, has the world's sparsest population of birdwatchers. Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica illustrates and describes all the known species--more than 1,000 of them--in a vast swath of this underexplored birder's paradise, from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay to parts of Antarctica. Just some of the birds it covers are teals, tinamous, chachalacas, conebills, cuckoos, macaws, parakeets, parrots, penguins, nightjars, hummingbirds, ovenbirds, tyrants, and tanagers. The habitats range from torrid rainforests and cloudforests to grasslands, the world's driest desert, second highest mountain range, and ice caps.
 The 97 color plates depict each species' male in breeding plumage, with the female and young often shown as well. On the facing page are concise textual descriptions of each species, highlighting not only salient physical features and behavioral patterns but the calls or songs of each. Casual birders and ornithologists contemplating a journey to the region, or simply interested in a one-volume overview of its bird life, will not want to miss this book.

Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica.

Rumboll, Maurice

Princeton University Press

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