Seabirds the New Identification Guide

Description

Author: Peter Harrison, Martin Perrow & Hans Larsson
ISBN: 978-84-16728-41-1
Publisher: Lynx Editions
Year of Publication: 2021
600 pages
Hardcover

Seabirds the New Identification Guide is a definite upgrade from the 1983 publication! Excellent book.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the world’s 434 species of seabirds, to be published since the 1983 publication of Harrison’s Seabirds: An Identification Guide. It covers all known seabirds, beginning with seaducks and grebes and ending with cormorants and pelicans. Lavishly illustrated and detailed throughout the 600 pages, this guide gives full treatment to all known seabird species including recently rediscovered and rarely seen species.

• The essential new identification guide to the seabirds of the world.
• Based on 2021 taxonomy
• 239 superb, full-color plates with extensive captions and detailed facing-plate identification texts and maps, to enable identification at a glance.
• More than 3,800 full-colour figures with illustrations of distinct subspecies, sexes, ages and morphs, are further supported by in-text identification keys and figures.
• Comprehensive and definitive, the text covers status and conservation, geographic range, movements and migration, breeding biology and feeding habits, plus identification and latest taxonomic treatments.
• The only seabird guide to cover all known seabird groups and species. Seabirders worldwide will find this to be an authoritative, one-of-a-kind publication for use around the globe.