Albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters of the world /
Albatrosses, petrels & shearwaters of the world
Derek Onley and Paul Scofield.
- 240 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 24 cm.
- Princeton field guides .
- Princeton field guides. .
Originally published: London : Christopher Helm, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237) and index.
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.
"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.