Birds of SeychellesA&C Black, 2013 M02 28 - 176 pages Birds of Seychelles - the definitive field guide to these jewels of the Indian Ocean - just got even better. This enhanced fixed-format version of the book - featuring songs and calls - is set to change birding forever. Optimised for iPad, it presents the book in crisp, clear high-resolution. Superb, fully zoomable colour plates of the highest detail lie opposite comprehensive identification text and accurate range maps, In addition, the e-book features songs, calls, and other sounds from 250 species, representing coverage of more than 95% of species that occur on these islands, placed conveniently next to the accompanying species text. This epic collection of images and sounds represents a step change in the way birders operate. No more carrying hey books into the field; no more trying to remember sounds days or weeks after the event, while all other methods for taking sounds into the field are consigned to the dustbin. This e-book provides a complete field-based ID solution - no birder will want to be without it. This compact field guide, based on Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock and Tony Disley (Helm 2000), is the only field guide to cover all of the more than 250 species recorded in Seychelles, including all residents, migrants and vagrants. Concise text on facing pages highlights key identification features, including habitat, distribution, status and voice. The 65 colour plates, featuring over 800 images, are based on the authors' previous work, but with the addition of many new images. The text has been completely re-written and revised for this edition, and the plates have been re-worked to accommodate a number of new additions to the country's list. There are now 12 more plates than in the first edition. |
Contents
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TOPOGRAPHY | 11 |
CLIMATE | 18 |
Stormpetrels HYDROBATIDAE | 26 |
Tropicbirds PHAETHONTIDAE | 32 |
Storks CICONIIDAE | 46 |
Osprey PANDIONIDAE | 52 |
Quails and francolins PHASIANIDAE | 62 |
Swifts APODIDAE | 116 |
Larks ALAUDIDAE | 122 |
Bulbuls PYCNONOTIDAE | 128 |
Cisticolas CISTICOLIDAE | 134 |
Whiteeyes ZOSTEROPIDAE | 140 |
Waxbills ESTRILDIDAE | 146 |
CHECKLIST OF THE BIRDS OF SEYCHELLES | 152 |
BIRD NAMES IN THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF SEYCHELLES | 160 |
Prartincoles GLAREOLIDAE | 68 |
Barn Owls TYTONIDAE | 74 |
Skuas STERCORARIIDAE | 82 |
DISTRIBUTION OF ENDEMIC TAXA | 168 |
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1st-winter Adult breeding Adult non-breeding Aldabra Aurora Solé barred belly birds black bill Black Kite blackish breast-band Breeds Eurasia browner Caspian Plover chestnut Claude Chappuis Common Redshank contrasting Cosmoledo coverts crown dark brown darker Dimorphic Egret dull duller Egret Eurasia Eurasian Curlew eye-ring eye-stripe Falcon feathers female flanks flight call flight shows flight-feathers Frigatebird Gérard Rocamora Gilles Abbé grey-brown Gull head Heron HH Favours immature adult inner islands islands and Amirantes Juvenile legs Lesser Frigatebird Little Egret Madagascar Madagascar Sacred Ibis Mahé mantle mottled nape neck numbers paler Petrel Plover plumage Pratincole primaries Red-footed Falcon Red-tailed Tropicbird rufous Sandpiper scapulars SD Vagrant Solé and Gilles SPECIES LIST spots Storm-petrel streaked Striated Heron stripe sub-Saharan Africa subspecies supercilium tail Tern throat tips Tropicbird undertail undertail-coverts underwing underwing-coverts upper breast upperparts Vagrant to granitics Vagrant to inner Warbler white wing-bar whitish wing-coverts wingbeats wings wintering sub-Saharan Africa yellow