Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14404 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 656 pages

Review
"...the guide against which all others for the New World tropics will be judged." -- Don Stap, Audubon Magazine

Review
[I]f any places needed a field guide, it was Peru, second only to Columbia as the most bird-rich country in the world . . . . Now, 40 years after he first envisioned a field guide, [John] O'Neill and his principal co-authors, Tom Schulenberg and Doug Stotz, have finally completed the guide against which all others for the New World tropics will be judged . . . . The Birds of Peru's nearly 4,000 color illustrations alone--more than double that of any other single-country neotropics guide--set it apart . . . . [It] is the culmination of an incredible amount of fieldwork, but that doesn't mean the exploration is finished . . . . This book isn't the end; it's really the beginning
(Don Stap Audubon Magazine )

Any North American birder will be green with envy paging through this volume. The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Peru, it describes nearly 1,800 species--compared to the 600 or so in the continental U.S.
(T.C. Williams Choice )

Review
Birds of Peru is in that select pantheon of bird books destined to make a lasting contribution to ornithology. The authors and artists of this long-awaited book have given us a comprehensive guide that is both beautiful and accurate. Outstanding artwork, precise maps, and succinct text will help scientist and neophyte alike as they navigate the tsunami of birdlife within this fascinating country.
(Steven L. Hilty, author of "Birds of Venezuela" )

Customer Reviews

Un des meilleures guide en Amérique du Sud
Ce nouveau guide des oiseaux du Pérou écrase largement l'ancien qui sur le terrain ne permettait pas de reconnaître grand chose !
La qualité des dessins d'identification en particulier sur des genres difficiles comme les Grimpars ou les Tyrannidés associée au fait que mâles et femelle sont systématiquement dessinés, avec même parfois des dessins d'oiseaux en vol, en font le meilleur guide en Amérique du sud.
Seul bémol, les textes sont trop pauvres, on est loin de la richesse des textes écris par Hilty dans "Birds of Venezuela".

Cordialement

Excelente libro!!!
Muy buen libro, 100% recomendable.
Esta guia contiene imagenes de muy buena calidad, a color
y con mapas bien detallados de la distribucion de todas
las especies que habitan Peru.
Cada especie incluye una detallada descripcion para su identificacion, sus voces, dimensiones, nombres, abudancias, distribucion en paises vecinos, etc. Mas de 650 paginas de un trabajo excelente!!!
Un libro basico para los observadores de aves de sudamerica.

Nice, but missing some known species
I would not suggest this book to someone birding in Peru for the first time - it is missing several known species appearing in other volumes (ones that I have seen myself). Most notable, off the top of my head, is the Andean Duck. A more experienced birder who is more familiar with Peru will appreciate this guide, though.