Mark Brazil

Field Guide to the Birds of Japan (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of Japan, covering all 738 species and subspecies.

Japan is home to a spectacular and diverse range of birds, and this text covers the identification, voice, habitat, behaviour and range of all the species and subspecies found across the beautiful and fascinating Japanese archipelago.

The authoritative text is accompanied by 187 superb full-colour plates painted by an expert artist and covers all major plumage variations. Included are detailed illustrations of distinct subspecies, sexes, ages and morphs.

Birds of Japan will ensure that this top birding destination is made accessible to all.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472964687
• Artikelnr.: 54361573

Autorenporträt

Mark Brazil is a widely travelled field ornithologist and an experienced writer. He was educated at Keele and Stirling universities in the UK and received a doctorate for his studies of the behavioural ecology of the Whooper Swan in Scotland and Iceland. His interest in swans has continued and he spends part of each winter studying them in Hokkaido where he is currently Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido. His main research interests have centred around East Asian birds, particularly the Japanese avifauna.

He is the author of A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan (Kodansha International 1987), The Birds of Japan (Helm 1991), and Wild Asia: Spirit of a Continent (Bateman 2000). He has written research and review papers on a wide range of species and has contributed a regular column on natural history to The Japan Times newspaper continuously since 1982. He has been involved in the making of many natural history television documentaries, writes on travel, cultural and natural history topics for a wide range of publications, and calls Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand, home.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Using this Field Guild
Avian Topography and Terminology
Japanese Geography, Climate, and Biogeography
Organisations
References
Plates and Species Accounts
Appendix I: Identification of Non-Adult Large Gulls
Appendix II: Additional Undocumented or Doubtfully Recorded Species
Appendix II: Species Thought Likely to Occur in the Future
Index