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Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse
Madge, Steve; McGowan, Phil; Kirwan, Guy M.
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Description for Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse
Hardback. Brings together a comprehensive review of the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer - over 250 species in all. This book concentrates on detailed identification and distribution, but also highlights conservation issues where relevant. Series: Princeton Field Guides. Num Pages: 480 pages, 72 color plates. 250 color maps. BIC Classification: GBC; PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1199.
This guide brings together, for the first time within a single volume, a comprehensive review of all the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer--over 250 species in all. The group includes some of the world's most familiar and beautiful birds, such as the Indian peafowl and the stunning tragopans, as well as some of the rarest and most threatened. This book concentrates on detailed identification and distribution, but also highlights conservation issues where relevant. The seventy-two color plates, by leading bird illustrators, show male, female, juvenile, and subspecies plumages, and form the finest ... Read more
This guide brings together, for the first time within a single volume, a comprehensive review of all the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer--over 250 species in all. The group includes some of the world's most familiar and beautiful birds, such as the Indian peafowl and the stunning tragopans, as well as some of the rarest and most threatened. This book concentrates on detailed identification and distribution, but also highlights conservation issues where relevant. The seventy-two color plates, by leading bird illustrators, show male, female, juvenile, and subspecies plumages, and form the finest ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press Group Ltd United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Field Guides
Number of Pages
516
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691089089
SKU
V9780691089089
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Madge, Steve; McGowan, Phil; Kirwan, Guy M.
Steve Madge has traveled extensively as a bird-tour guide over the past twenty years. A former member of the British Birds Rarities Committee, he is also coauthor of Wildfowl and Crows and Jays (Princeton) and the coauthor of The Handbook of Bird Identification for Europe and the Western Palearctic (Princeton). Phil McGowan earned a Ph.D. for his study of Malaysian ... Read more
Reviews for Pheasants, Partridges, and Grouse
Winner of the 2002 Best Bird Families Book, Worldtwitch "This entire book must have been a labor of love for its authors... [It] lets one appreciate the great beauty of these birds... This new book satisfies my need to have close at hand a convenient world reference on one of my favorite groups of birds."
Paul A. Johnsgard, Birding
Paul A. Johnsgard, Birding