A Guide to the Birds of the PhilippinesA Guide to the Birds of the Philippines is the first and only guide that covers all 572 species of birds known to occur within the 7,100 islands that make up the Philippines. The Philippine avifauna includes some 170 endemics - species that are not found anywhere else in the world - and is thus of interest to avid birders around the world. Many of these species are also endangered, due to the high levels of habitat destruction in the Philippine forest, and this book is also urgently needed by conservation workers in the region. The Guide is illustrated by 72 specially painted colour plates that show all but the three vagrant species recently recorded there. Its text gives detailed information about the plumage, voice, range, distribution, status, habitat, life history and behaviour of the birds and is accompanied by distribution maps for all the species described. The expert team of authors and artists includes two prominent Philippine ornithologists, and has combined field experience summing to over 100 years. This book clearly will be the standard for Philippine Ornithology for many years to come. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Buzzards SerpentEagles Eagles HawkEagles HCM | 12 |
Cranes Rails Crakes ARS | 12 |
Plovers MJB | 12 |
Knots Stints Sandpipers Ruff MJB | 12 |
Terns Noddies MJB | 12 |
FruitDoves RCA | 12 |
CuckooDoves CollaredDoves TurtleDoves Doves EmeraldDoves RCA | 12 |
Flyeaters Warblers LeafWarblers AEG | 12 |
ReedWarblers Grassbirds GrasshopperWarblers AEG | 12 |
Tailorbirds AEG 59 Cisticolas BushWarblers AEG | 12 |
JungleFlycatchers Flycatchers AEG | 12 |
Flycatchers AEG 62 Flycatchers Fantails VDE | 12 |
ParadiseFlycatchers Monarchs Whistlers VDE | 12 |
Wagtails Pipits AEG | 12 |
Woodswallows Shrikes Glossy Starlings AEG | 12 |
Bleedinghearts Pigeons RCA | 12 |
Lorikeets Cockatoos Parrots HCM | 12 |
Racquettails HangingParrots HCM | 12 |
Cuckoos MJB 32 Cuckoos Koel Malkohas MJB | 12 |
Coucals MJB 34 Grass Owls BayOwls ScopsOwls ARS | 12 |
Scops Owls EagleOwls HawkOwls Owls ARS | 12 |
Frogmouths Nightjars ARS | 12 |
Swiftlets AEG 38 Needletails Swifts Treeswifts AEG | 12 |
Trogons Dollarbirds Kingfishers RCA | 12 |
Kingfishers RCA 41 Beeeaters Hoopoe Hornbills RCA | 12 |
Barbets Woodpeckers RCA | 12 |
Broadbills Pittas JAR | 12 |
Martins Swallows WZ | 12 |
Larks Cuckooshrikes MJB | 12 |
Trillers Minivets Leafbirds Ioras MJB 47 Bulbuls JEL 48 Bulbuls Drongos JEL | 12 |
Orioles FairyBluebirds Crows JEL | 12 |
Tits Nuthatches Rhabdornis JEL | 12 |
Babblers GroundBabblers WrenBabblers JEL | 12 |
Babblers StripedBabblers JEL | 12 |
TitBabblers Shortwing Robins JEL | 12 |
MagpieRobin Shamas Redstarts Bushchat Wheatear RockThrush JEL | 12 |
GroundThrushes Thrushes JEL | 12 |
Starlings Mynas LHB | 12 |
Sunbirds MJB 68 Sunbirds Spiderhunters Flowerpeckers MJB | 12 |
Flowerpeckers MJB 70 Whiteeyes Old World Sparrows Avadavat JEL | 12 |
Parrotfinches Sparrows Munias RCA | 12 |
Finches Crossbills Bullfinches Buntings RCA | 12 |
Bird topography and measurements | 13 |
Storks Ciconiidae | 37 |
Buzzards Eagles Harriers Hawks Kites Accipitridae | 50 |
Falcons Falconets Falconidae | 65 |
Cranes Gruidae | 75 |
Lapwings Plovers Charadriidae | 88 |
Phalaropes Phalaropodidae | 117 |
Doves Pigeons Columbidae | 133 |
Lorikeets Cockatoos Parrots Racquettails Psittacidae | 154 |
Barn and Grass Owls Tytonidae | 173 |
Swifts Apodidae | 187 |
Beeeaters Meropidae | 206 |
Martins Swallows Hirundinidae | 220 |
Drongos Dicruridae | 237 |
Robins Shamas Thrushes Turdidae | 258 |
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Common terms and phrases
Asia Basilan Batan Biliran Bill black Birds with enlarged blackish brown blue Bohol Borneo breast and belly breast band brownish grey buff Cagayan Sulu Call Camiguin Catanduanes Cebu chestnut Common Description coverts white crown dark grey Dinagat endemic enlarged gonads recorded eye brown eye dark brown eyebrow flanks flight feathers foraging forest edge green greyish brown Habits head Java Jolo Kennedy recording Lesser Sundas Leyte lores loud lowlands Luzon Mindanao Luzon mandible Marinduque Masbate Medium Mindanao Luzon Mindanao Mindoro mixed flocks Moluccas mottled nape neck Negros non-breeding notes olive orange outer Palawan pale Panay patch perched Philippines Plate races Range ricefields rufous rump Samar Sanga Sanga second growth sexes alike sexes similar Sibuyan Similar species singly Siquijor spots stripe Sulawesi Sumatra tail feathers Taiwan Tawi-Tawi throat Tubbataha Reefs underparts undertail coverts upper breast upperparts uppertail Voice whitish wing bar wing coverts Wingspan yellow yellowish
References to this book
Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migration Russell Greenberg,Peter P. Marra Limited preview - 2005 |