Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Parrots of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Parrots of the World

From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organized by geographical distribution--Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb color plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. Color distribution maps show ranges of all subspecies, and field identification is further ai...

Parrots of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Parrots of the World

From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organized by geographical distribution--Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb color plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. Color distribution maps show ranges of all subspecies, and field identification is further ai...

Australian Parrots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Australian Parrots

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1980
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Encyclopedia of Birds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Encyclopedia of Birds

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1998
  • -
  • Publisher: UNSW Press

This beautifully illustrated book with colour photographs and original paintings, maps and diagrams, presents an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the natural history of birds. It will provide readers with a better understanding and appreciation of the world of birds and the preservation of their habitats.

Vanished and Vanishing Parrots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Vanished and Vanishing Parrots

Joseph M. Forshaw, one of the world’s leading authorities on parrots, calls attention to the threats they face: they are one of the most endangered groups of birds, with a growing number of species nearing extinction. The main threats arise from habitat loss through deforestation and agricultural development and from the taking of birds for the international live-bird trade. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots brings together information on species that have become extinct in historical times with information on species that are in danger of becoming extinct to increase public awareness of the plight of these magnificent birds. Vivid colour plates by the wildlife artist Frank Knight draw attention to the spectacular species that we have lost or that could be lost. Forshaw’s work gives us fascinating insight into these endangered and extinct parrots. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots will be a valuable reference for scientific, ornithological and avicultural organisations, as well as individual lovers of birds and of illustrated natural history books.

Kingfishers and Related Birds: Alcedinidae : Halcyon to Tanysiptera. 1985
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Kingfishers and Related Birds: Alcedinidae : Halcyon to Tanysiptera. 1985

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1983
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Trogons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Trogons

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2009
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

This is the definitive natural history of the spectacularly beautiful tropical birds known as the trogons, a family that includes the legendary Resplendent Quetzal, the sacred bird of the ancient Mayans and Aztecs. A collaboration between renowned ornithologist Joseph Forshaw and eminent bird artist Albert Gilbert, Trogons combines science and art to create an unprecedented picture of a threatened bird family. Forshaw's text provides the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the trogons ever written, and Gilbert's stunning paintings are the first to accurately depict all species of trogons in their natural habitats and true colors. The book's detailed synthesis of current knowledge...

Pigeons and Doves in Australia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 851

Pigeons and Doves in Australia

Possibly the most successful urban birds, pigeons and doves in the Order Columbiformes are one of the most easily recognised groups. They are an ancient and very successful group with an almost worldwide distribution and are most strongly represented in tropical and subtropical regions, including Australia. In most species simple plumage patterns feature mainly grey and brown with black, white or dull reddish markings, but the highly colourful fruit-doves include some of the most beautiful of all birds. From dense rainforests of north Queensland, where brilliantly plumaged Superb Fruit-Doves Ptilinopus superbus are heard more easily than seen, to cold, windswept heathlands of Tasmania, where...

Parrots of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

Parrots of the World

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1989
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

A Natural History of Australian Parrots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

A Natural History of Australian Parrots

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2016-10-15
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is the final collaboration of Joseph M. Forshaw and William T. Cooper and combines the finest Cooper artwork with an updated, authoritative Forshaw text. Presented as a deluxe edition, this book is truly a combination of art and science presenting many previously unpublished Cooper drawings, sketches and paintings. Containing more than 300 artworks, it is fully cased in grey Ballantine cloth, with black blocking and marbled endpapers. The book is landscape format printed on fine quality satin art paper and the size is 350 mm x 305 mm.