Zusatztext The ideal travelling companion for any birding trip to peninsular India. Informationen zum Autor Richard Grimmett & Tim Inskipp Klappentext A comprehensive field guide to all of the birds of central and southern India. This guide is a successor to the much acclaimed Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by the same authors covering Maharashtra, Andhra, Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives.Accurate illustrations are accompanied by a succinct text highlighting identification, voice, habitat, altitudinal range, distribution and status. The text is on facing pages to the plates, for quick and easy reference. Like previous guides covering Bhutan, Northern India and Nepal, this guide is a perfect size for use in the field and will be an essential companion when visiting this region. Vorwort A comprehensive field guide to all of the birds of central and southern India (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives). Covers over 600 species. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive field guide to all of the birds of central and southern Indian (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives). Covers over 600 species. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction How to Use this Book Descriptive Parts of a Bird Geographical Setting Main Habitats Important Bird Species Migration Birdwatching Areas National Organisations International Organisations References Acknowledgements Glossary Selected Bibliography Family Summaries Colour Plates and Species Accounts Appendix Tables Index

The ideal travelling companion for any birding trip to peninsular India.

Vorwort
A comprehensive field guide to all of the birds of central and southern India (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives). Covers over 600 species.

Autorentext
Richard Grimmett is a keen birder who has visited southern Asia many times. He has co-authored numerous identification guides to the Indian Subcontinent and its constituent regions, mainly in collaboration with Carol and Tim Inskipp. Richard has worked for BirdLife International for more than 40 years and was in charge of the Asia Programme, based in Indonesia and then Japan, between 1997 and 2007. Until recently he was BirdLife's Director of Conservation and is currently a Senior Conservation Advisor. He lives in Cambridgeshire, UK, and his birding these days is mainly on his local patch, RSPB Ouse Fen. Tim Inskipp is a leading expert on the birds of southern Asia. He was co-author (with his wife Carol, and Richard Grimmett) of the major work Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Helm, 1998), from which numerous highly acclaimed field guides to the region went on to spring.

Klappentext
A comprehensive field guide to the birds of central and southern India.

Southern India is one of the great world-birding destinations, and what riches await - from the endemic-rich Western Ghats across the central plains down to the wetlands and woods of Kerala, every part of southern India heaves with birds - often the sheer biodiversity must be seen to be believed.

This guide covers the birds of the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives. Accurate illustrations are accompanied by a concise text highlighting identification, voice, habitat, altitudinal range, distribution and status. A code indicates the states in which the birds occur.

Portable and pocket-friendly for field use yet authoritative, this guide provides the confidence to help you identify any bird you encounter in this magical, bird-rich part of Southern Asia.

Zusammenfassung
A comprehensive field guide to all of the birds of central and southern Indian (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives). Covers over 600 species.

Inhalt

Foreword
Introduction

How to Use this Book
Descriptive Parts of a Bird
Geographical Setting
Main Habitats
Important Bird Species
Migration
Birdwatching Areas

National Organisations
International Organisations
References
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Family Summaries
Colour Plates and Species Accounts
Appendix
Tables
Index