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| Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation | 
| Authors: Douglas F. Stotz, John W. Fitzpatrick, Theodore A. Parker, Debra K. Moskovits
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 981110
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 502
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0226776301
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.298
EAN: 9780226776309
ASIN: 0226776301
Publication Date: June 1, 1996
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| Customer Reviews:
Amazing! May 25, 2008
Just an amazing book! A reliable work that every ornithologist should have. The status for each species it`s a tool for research and conservation works! Very nice! I strongly recommend it!
Next book on tropical birds you buy after the field guides February 26, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Certainly tropical bird lovers, who have had the thrill of one or more bird trips to Central or South America, will want to begin to make more sense of their experiences. This book is for the birder about to turn tropical ecologist. It makes sense of the habitats, with terrific photos, many by John Fitzpatrick, of representative areas of the key habitats. The database tables in the back of the book, termed "essentially a download of Ted Parker's mind" are the essence of this information. For each of the 4000 species from the Rio Grande to Tierra Del Fuego, there are lists of habitats used by every species, and even a table of the indicator bird species for each region.
The books makes the really important point: you cannot prioritize saving the birds of the tropics only by species, one bird at a time. You have to look at what habitats are being irreversibly destroyed the most rapidly, and use those birds which depend most on these habitats - as info connections by which the habitats are to be recognized in the field, and then saved by appropriate political and economic action. Terrific book! Easy to read.
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