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By Alexander F. Skutch,Dana Gardner

ISBN-10: 0292776993

ISBN-13: 9780292776999

ISBN-10: 0292777051

ISBN-13: 9780292777057

Antbirds and ovenbirds, of the 5 greatest households of birds discovered basically within the Western Hemisphere, were between Alexander Skutch's favorites for greater than six a long time. during this ebook, he attracts on years of observations to explain the lifestyles cycle of those interesting birds, which inhabit Latin the US from tropical Mexico to Tierra del Fuego.

Skutch covers all elements of the birds' lives, together with some of the species in each one relations, meals and foraging, way of life, voice, screens and courtship, nests and incubation, and parental care. He additionally recounts anecdotes from his personal reviews, developing vibrant images of antbirds foraging for the bugs Skutch stirs up on walks during the rainforest and of ovenbirds repairing the statement holes that he opens of their complicated nests.

As a few of tropical America's least studied birds, antbirds and ovenbirds definitely benefit the vast remedy given them right here by way of one among our such a lot extraordinary senior ornithologists. Over fifty line drawings by means of famous chicken artist Dana Gardner make this ebook a pride for either armchair and box naturalists.

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