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BIRDS OF PERU by Schulenberg, Stotz, Lane, O' ...

Here you'll find two reviews, the first in English by Lars Smith, the second in Spanish by Betzabé Nössing, both filmed in Pozuzo, Peru:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX9kkmwSGVE&feature=channel_video_title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9K-BsOUxBw&feature=channel_video_title




Nearly eighteen hundred different bird species--one fifth of the world's birds--have been recorded in Peru. Birds of Peru is the most complete and well-researched field guide to this rich and fascinating diversity. It illustrates every one of the 1,792 species and shows the distinct plumages of each. It includes 304 superb, high-quality color plates directly opposite concise descriptions and color distribution maps, making it much easier to use in the field than standard neotropical field guides. The detailed text discusses key identification features, status, distribution, and vocalizations for all species, and many subspecies.

This field guide enables users to identify all species found in Peru, and is also useful throughout much of western South America, particularly southeastern Colombia, southern Ecuador, western Brazil, Bolivia, and northern Chile.

Birds of Peru is an indispensable resource for birdwatchers, biologists, naturalists, and conservationists working or traveling in Peru and South America.

The most complete and well-researched field guide to the 1,792 species of birds found in Peru
304 superb, high-quality color plates directly opposite concise descriptions and full-color distribution maps for quick reference and easy identification
Distinct plumages, subspecies, sexes, age classes, and morphs fully illustrated
Detailed text discusses key identification features, status, distribution, and vocalizations
Designed especially for field use-compact, portable, and user-friendly

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Douglas F. Stotz are ornithologists and conservation ecologists at the Field Museum in Chicago. Daniel F. Lane and John P. O'Neill are illustrators and field ornithologists, and both are research associates at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. Lane also leads Field Guides birding tours. Theodore A. Parker III, who worked throughout Peru before his death in 1993, was the premier neotropical field ornithologist of his time.

 

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now also in Spanish


In late 2007 ECCo launched Birds of Peru, the long-awaited field guide to Peru’s 1,807 species of birds. We then partnered with the Peruvian organization CORBIDI (Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad) to produce the guide’s Spanish translation. Aves de Perú came out in March 2010, a record time for a Spanish translation. When the field guide effort began decades ago, only a handful of Peruvians were studying birds. In March, more than 500 people attended the two-day event with lectures, bird walks, and citizen-science programs. Antonio Brack Egg, Minister of the Environment and the highest-ranking environmental official in the Peruvian government, attended the formal ceremony. Similar to the powerful impact of the Roger Tory Peterson field guides in the US, we expect Aves de Perú to transform the conservation landscape in Peru.

http://gallitos.info/birdsofperu.html

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Tom Schulenberg, Doug Stotz, Corine Vriesendorp, John O'Neill, and Dan Lane with a copy of Aves de Peru, hot off the presses.

 

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Interview with Thomas Schulenberg - en espanol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIAaB6H6IRY

 

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Google review of the book:

http://books.google.de/books?id=yFuWUc7l0uQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=birds+of+peru&hl=de&ei=SFR2Tu3XO8OOswaxuPXOCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false