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Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters of the world / Derek Onley and Paul Scofield.

By:

Onley, Derek J [author.]

Contributor(s):

Scofield, R. Paul (Richard Paul), 1966- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton field guidesPublisher: Princeton : London : Princeton University Press ; Christopher Helm, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 240 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780691131320
9780713643329 (pbk.)
0691131325
0713643323 (pbk.) :

Other title:

Albatrosses, petrels & shearwaters of the world [Cover title]

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

598.42 23

Contents:

List of species and subspecies -- Taxonomy and the species debate -- The four families : characteristics and taxonomic relationships -- Identification -- Conservation -- How to use this book -- Seabird topography -- Colour plates -- Species accounts.

Summary: "This is the first comprehensive field guide to the world's 136 species of albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels. This field guide includes information on breeding, feeding, distribution, migration, and conservation. And it illustrates for the first time several extremely rare species, such as Beck's and MacGillivray's Petrels, and the New Zealand Storm-Petrel, which was rediscovered only in 2004."--BOOK JACKET.

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Originally published: London : Christopher Helm, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237) and index.

"This is the first comprehensive field guide to the world's 136 species of albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels. This field guide includes information on breeding, feeding, distribution, migration, and conservation. And it illustrates for the first time several extremely rare species, such as Beck's and MacGillivray's Petrels, and the New Zealand Storm-Petrel, which was rediscovered only in 2004."--BOOK JACKET.

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