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Costa Rican Wildlife: An Introduction to Familiar Species (A Pocket Naturalist Guide)

Costa Rican Wildlife: An Introduction to Familiar Species (A Pocket Naturalist Guide)
By James Kavanagh

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Costa Rican Wildlife is a portable reference guide featuring birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects found in this country.  This compact guide is folded for easy access and printed on durable laminate paper.  This is a great resource for the traveler or the nature enthusiast. 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #57007 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-01-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Pamphlet
  • 12 pages

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From the Back Cover
Costa Rican Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species, is a must-have reference guide for beginners and experts alike. This guide provides a simplified introduction to species that are familiar, widespread and/or unusual in Costa Rica. The Pocket Traveller Eco-Travel Guides provide simplified reference to the prominent wildlife species of the world's most popular eco-tourism destinations. Each pocket-sized, folding guide identifies up to 150 species of common and unique animals in each area and most feature a map highlighting natural vegetation zones. Each is laminated for durability. (31/2 X 81/4 folded, opens to 22 X 81/4, color illustrations)

About the Author

Waterford Press produces simplified guides to nature, science, travel and languages. The company's 300+ titles have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide.

Customer Reviews

Glad I had it!5
I wasn't holding out much hope for value on this little "brochure" of wildlife but it turned out to be very nice to have. We just returned from a trip to Panama and Costa Rica and the guides - experienced naturalists with National Geographic and also from the parks and the Smithsonian - used it along with others. They are available for different regions and types of wildlife and I purchased two more when I was down there. Easy to carry on a hike, easy to refer to and great for the kids. They are certainly very basic but we were in isolated areas and some of us only got glimpses of an anteater or agouti so as the naturalists were talking about it, we could look at the guide and try to spot it again. Then if I only saw the tail, I knew what it looked like! Hiking up 300-500 ft. on muddy uneven trails with a camera in one hand, binoculars around my neck and a small backpack with water and such, it was hard to pull out a book for reference so if your trip is going to be at all like that, I recommend them.

GOOD ENOUGH FOR A FIRST TIME VISIT TO COSTA RICA3
Although this pocket field guide is extremely limited - only listed three species of butterflies - it did enable us to identify the difference between Howler, Spider and Capuchin monkeys. It sufficed as a guide for my week long (and first visit) to Costa Rica. However, if you are spending more time in the rainforest, I would recommend a more detailed guide for your area(s) of interest. Enjoy.

Too skimpy to be useful2
This is effectively a foldout brochure (laminated) with only a few animals/birds, and very little information. You can get almost as much information from your general guide book for Costa Rica. I could only recommend this as something to give children to look at to keep them busy during the trip.