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This book is the most up to date work on honeycreepers, covering the life history, relationships, and biology of the birds. The honeycreepers, with their bright colouration and canary-like songs, are famed for their unique evolutionary history as a geographically isolated group that has undergone a spectacular burst of adaptions to the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.

Grebes are unusual and fascinating birds, with spectacular courtship behaviour and floating nests which enable them to spend their entire lives in water. This book provides a comprehensive account of their origin and evolution, biology, and how they have adapted to exploit their environment, illustrated with maps and line figures.

Contains a description of the natural history and biology of the Ratites and Tinamous - the group of flightless birds that includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis. Each species is treated in turn, with seven introductory chapters and full colour illustrations of 55 species, as well as over 50 line drawings.

This superbly illustrated book covers in unmatched deatil the life history, relationships, biology and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets and honeyguides. The colour plates, painted by well- known American artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced.

Provides a review of the biology and evolution of Caprimulgiformes. 118 species accounts provide details of coloration, measurements, geographical variation, range, movements, habitats, food and feeding, behaviour, voice, breeding, field identification, conservation, and more, with a bibliography.

Focusing on the cuckoos, this title presents an evolutionary history of the family based on molecular genetics, and uses the family tree to explore the origins and diversity of their behaviour. It is illustrated with colour plates and numerous maps, halftones, and line drawings.

Provides an overview of the behaviour, biology, ecology, biogeography, and history of an ornate group of birds. This book is illustrated by 12 colour plates, including 42 species of birds of paradise, line drawings of many behaviours, maps, graphs, sonograms, and photographs. It is useful for ornithologists and naturalists.

The pelecaniformes are seabirds, found all over the world in marine and freshwater environments, encompassing six families and sixty species. They illuminate a variety of important areas of seabird biology. This book is complemented by pictures that were specially commissioned from renowned ornithology illustrators.

The Heron family, characterized by their long legs necks and bills are found worldwide, except in polar regions, and are particularly abundant and popular in the South West USA, especially Florida. Both authors are renowned experts in their field and have produced a definitive synthesis of this diverse and striking group of birds.

Includes scientific discoveries on every aspect of the bowerbird family. Illustrated with colour plates and line drawings, this work is of interest to ornithologists, particularly those with an interest in the birds of Australasia.

Wildfowl and screamers belong to a highly diverse family of birds, confined to watery habitats. This book gives an overview of the family, their taxonomy and evolution, feeding ecology, breeding strategies, social behaviour, movements and migrations, population dynamics, and conservation and management, followed by accounts of 165 species.