WoodpeckersA&C Black, 30 sep 2010 - 406 pagina's This comprehensive volume covers all of the 198 species of woodpeckers in the world. Each is beautifully illustrated in colour in its various plumages and described vividly and accurately, with complete information on its identifying characteristics, similar species, distribution, migration, habitat, geographical variations, voice, habits, food, and breeding behaviour. References for further research are also included. Woodpeckers is an essential addition to any birder's library. |
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Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION | |
MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICS | |
ECOLOGICAL SEXUAL DIMORPHISM | |
Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla | |
Goldenspangled Piculet Picumnus exilis | |
Whitebarred Piculet Picumnus cirratus | |
Plainbreasted Piculet Picumnus castelnau | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Woodpeckers: A Guide to the Woodpeckers of the World Hans Winkler,David A. Christie,David Nurney Fragmentweergave - 1995 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Acorn Woodpecker Adult male Forehead Adult male nominate Banded Woodpecker barred black barred white belly Bill black birds Black Woodpecker blackish Bolivia Brazil breeding season broad across nostrils browner brownish buff buffish Chin and throat chisel-tipped bill Colombia coverts crest culmen curved on culmen dark brown darker ear-coverts feather tips flanks flight feathers foraging Forms a superspecies GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION Green Woodpecker grey Grey-faced Woodpecker HABITAT hindcrown hindneck holes IDENTIFICATION Length inner webs Juvenile Duller lacks red larvae Legs and feet less lores lower mandible mandible mantle MEASUREMENTS Wing moustache moustachial stripe neck sides nest Northern Flicker olive outer pairs pale paler patch Piculet Plate plumage races range rear red crown red moustache red on head Red-cockaded Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpeckers rufous sexes Similar species slightly streaked supercilium superspecies tail tarsus tertials tinged trees underparts Undertail Underwing upperparts Upperwing-coverts variable Venezuela white spots whitish woodland Woodpecker Picoides yellow yellowish