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.
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