The Tanagers: Natural History, Distribution and Identification

Very Good used paperback. Crease to corner of back cover and a few back pages. For ornithologists, birders, aviculturists, the scientific community, this is the definitive book on tanagers (Thraupinae), a subfamily that includes 242 species of New World birds. Here for the first time the behavioral diversity of these birds is examined in a single manual, facilitating comparison of natural histories and presenting detailed aids to field identification. Illustration (32 color plates); Maps (263 range maps) Identification, Sources, and Genus and Species Accounts. This reissue incorporates an updated survey of recent literature on tanager systematics and natural history.