A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies

by Herbert A. Raffaele, Orlando H. Garrido, Janis Raffaele, et al.

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of the West Indies to appear in more than fifty years. It covers all 564 bird species known to occur in the region (including migrants and infrequently occurring forms). Each species is represented by a full description that includes identification field marks, local names, status, habitat, voice, nesting, range, and comments about the bird. A map showing the bird's distribution accompanies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691087369
• ISBN13: 9780691087368
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The One and Only Field Guide for the West Indies.

Why is the One and Only? The color Plates The Cover and size The Distribution Maps The Basic and accurate Information Do I mention the color plates?

Much better than Bond!

I just came back from St. Vincent where I used a copy of James Bond's "Birds of the Caribbean". It was acceptable, but it didn't have many colour plates or pictures of birds in flight. This book is all colour illustrations and has pictures of birds in flight. The information is also up to date. Many more useful tools for bird identification than in Bond! For example, this has habitat and maps of range.

Excellent Field Guide

This is an excellent field guide with great pictures of birds, making identification easier. The descriptions about the different bird species inhabiting the West Indies are also very good. The guide seems to give fuller coverage to birds in the northern Caribbean islands, such as Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, and somewhat less coverage to birds in the central and southern regions of the West Indian island chain, but it was still very helpful to me with bird identification on a recent trip to the island of Montserrat (about 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico). Recommended for birders vacationing in the West Indies.

Preciise, informative and good value for money

Provides color plates for all species found in the West Indies, and helpful maps alongside the text, whenever necessary. All that you need for a field guide, at a reasonable price. It more than lives up to Princeton's reputation for fine guides,

Much needed update

Birds of the West Indies is a much needed and well researched update of the classic book "Birds of the West Indies" by James Bond. This update provides layman and serious birders and researchers with critically important updates on species distribution and habitat areas. A must read for the serious birders and curious readers interested in understanding the birds of the West Inidan Archipelago.