Birds of the World: Recommended English Names [With CD]

by Frank Gill and Minturn Wright

Book Overview

This book provides the first standardized English-language nomenclature for all living birds of the world. While previous checklists, including those by Sibley and Monroe, Clements, and Howard and Moore, were primarily taxonomic works, Birds of the World provides English-language names based on the rules and principles developed by leading ornithologists worldwide and endorsed by members of the preeminent International Ornithological Congress. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691128278
• ISBN13: 9780691128276
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.8"