Birds of Colombia

Name: Birds of Colombia - Lynx Nature Books
SKU: GUI0054V
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Authors

Steven L. Hilty

The most complete and updated field guide to the birds of Colombia.

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Product code: GUI0054V

ISBN: 978-84-16728-24-4 Flexi-cover / 978-84-16728-23-7 Hardcover

SKU: GUI0054V Categories: Birds, Field Guides & Travel, Lynx and BirdLife International Field Guides Collection, Neotropical Tag: Bestselling

“The book provides information on names (local and national), range, size, identifying features, voice, altitudinal preferences, and status. Every species is accompanied by beautiful paintings showing species and sometimes subspecies if applicable. Having been to Colombia three times now, myself, would I buy this book? Absolutely yes. It is better and more thorough and current than anything else on the market.”

Geoff Carpentier, North Durham Nature Newsletter, Volume 8 Number 4, p 9, October 2021

“Colombia is, without question, one of the world’s best, most diverse and most exciting birding countries. Similarly, the Handbook of birds of the world series, published by Lynx Edicions from 1992–2013, is one of the most incredible ornithological publications ever. Combine the two, and throw in the enormous experience and knowledge of the author, Steven Hilty, and there’s a certain amount of inevitability that we’re on to a winner… This really is a superb guide, and it would be churlish to try to find fault with it. Instead, I’m just going to say that I can’t recommend it highly enough and wish that I’d had it with me on all of my visits to this great country. Without question this is now the definitive field guide to Colombia’s birds, and any birder planning to venture there without it needs to seriously reconsider their packing list!”

Pete Morris, Neotropical Birding 29, pp 76–77, August 2021

“This is a work of immense quality and devotion that will surely become the go-to resource for birders and ornithologists visiting and working in Colombia. Hilty’s work is likely to again set new standards for many more Neotropical field guides to come.”

Sam Jones, BirdGuides, 31 July 2021

“Hilty’s book is not the only recent Colombian field guide available. Since 2010, there has been an excellent pocket-sized guide published by ProAves, the Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia by Miles McMullan and Thomas Donegan (a much updated second edition was published in 2014 and then a third edition in 2018). This guide from Lynx is significantly more detailed and up-to-date, with better illustrations; although, of course, it is also much heavier. It is also worth noting that there have been many changes to the taxonomic status of birds in the neotropical region since 2018, so Hilty’s guide is now preferable as a field companion.”

Frank Lambert, The Birder’s Library, 9 June 2021

Weight

1.2 kg

Size

16 × 23 cm

Language

English

Format

Flexi-cover, Hardback

Pages

608

Publishing date

March 2021

Published by

Lynx Edicions

Authors

Steven L. Hilty

Description

The most complete and updated field guide to the birds of Colombia.

For birders, Colombia really is number one! Not only have more species been recorded there than in any other country, but almost one-fifth of the world’s birds occur in Colombia, packed into an area slightly greater than 1,100,000 km².

Stretching east to west from the Orinoco River to the Pacific Ocean, and north to south from the Caribbean to Amazonian headwaters, the country’s topography is remarkably diverse. Here, the Andes are separated into three ranges by two important valleys, the Cauca and the Magdalena, and there are two very important massifs, Santa Marta and Perijá, in the north of the country—in particular, the Santa Marta range is one of the great endemic hotspots in the world.

In recent years, a series of standard birding routes has evolved, many of them focused on the country’s privately and publicly owned protected areas, permitting keen birders to see nearly all of Colombia’s many special birds, from extravagantly plumaged parrots and hummingbirds to skulking antpittas.

Nevertheless, in South America the capacity to escape the beaten track and make novel findings is perhaps nowhere better than Colombia, as exemplified by the recent discovery of an apparently new species of antpitta close to the city of Cali.

Taxonomy mainly follows the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World with updates largely to follow the most recent molecular data adopted by eBird/Clements.
Detailed texts covering status, habitat and behaviour, age, sex and geographical variation, voice, and confusion species.
More than 3600 illustrations covering all species and distinctive subspecies, birds in flight, males and females, juveniles and non-breeding plumages, where appropriate.
QR code for each species, linked to complementary audiovisual material.
More than 2000 full-colour range maps for all regularly occurring species.
Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.
Local species names included.