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60 colour plates of birds, 389 colour photographs, 577 distribution maps and more than 8000 bibliographical references.Language: English. Format: Hardback - 31 x 24 cm.Pages:821.Publication date: 1996 ... Read more

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Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl
Handbook of the Birds of the World is a superb work that illustrates most of the species of Birds in the World (I infer there are some species not yet described that have not been treated by this series).

This volume includes beautiful photographs and a taxonomic revision of all the species of the taxa included.

At the time this work was produced, it was not known that the Galliformes are in fact more basal than many of the groups treated in the first volume, so the overall phylogenetic order is outdated. However, the species and family accounts are still useful and there is no other recent revision of these groups that is so complete.

It cannot be used as a field guide due to its size, but it would be an excellent bookshelf resource for any keen birdwatcher interested in the world's avifauna.

If any one fancies raptors this is the book for him/her.

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Chapters: Index of Navassa Island-Related Articles, Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge, Flag of Navassa Island, Lulu Town, Lulu Bay. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Navassa Island (French: , Haitian Kreyòl: Lanavaz or Lavash) is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The island is also claimed by Haiti, which claims to have had sovereignty over Navassa since 1801. Navassa Island is about 2 square miles (5.2 km). It is found at a strategic location 90 nautical miles (100 mi; 170 km) south of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, about one-quarter of the way from Haiti to Jamaica in the Jamaica Channel. It reaches an elevation of 250 feet (76 m) at Dunning Hill 110 yards (100 m) south of the lighthouse, Navassa Island Light. This location is 440 yards (400 m) from the southwestern coast or 655 yards (600 m) east of Lulu Bay. The island's latitude and longitude is . Navassa Island is south of Cuba, east of Jamaica, and west of Haiti. This map originates with the US government and shows the US claim on the island Navassa Island - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (visible color) satellite imageThe terrain of Navassa Island consists mostly of exposed coral and limestone, the island being ringed by vertical white cliffs 30 to 50 feet (9.1 to 15.2 m) high, but with enough grassland to support goat herds. The island is covered in a forest of just four tree species: short-leaf fig (Ficus populnea var. brevifolia), pigeon plum (Coccoloba diversifolia), mastic (Sideroxylon foetidissimum) and poisonwood (Metopium brownei). Its topography and ecology is similar to that of Mona Island, a small limestone island located i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21312 ... Read more