By C. Hilary Fry
ISBN-10: 0931130115
ISBN-13: 9780931130113
A significant a part of the ebook includes the species money owed, with complementary color plates of forty two species and sub-species and exact maps depicting the geography in their evolution. additionally there are chapters at the bee-eaters' evolutionary improvement, their nutrition and foraging behaviour, and relationships with apiculture; of specific curiosity are chapters on social and reproductive lifestyles, the position of 'helpers' on the nest, and the that means of plumage and social differences among the species.
The author's color plates pride the attention and adequately painting plumage and 'jizz'. they're absolutely supplemented through greater than a hundred drawings by way of John Busby, taking pictures the essence of those birds with an extraordinary deftness and vitality.
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