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Publisher	Lynx Edicions
ISBN 10	8416728178
Language	English
About the Author	Guy Kirwan is a freelance editor and ornithologist currently based in the UK but working for Lynx Edicions, following a lengthy sojourn in Brazil. A regular visitor to the West Indies since the mid 1990s, he is currently finalizing a detailed checklist to the birds of Cuba. Author of more than 150 communications in the technical literature, and several previous books, Guy is a Research Associate of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro; his main avian interests are in taxonomy and the breeding biology of passerines in the New World tropics. Anthony Levesque arrived in Guadeloupe from France in 1998 after studying Wildlife Management and Nature Protection. Following work at a nature reserve and as a wildlife consultant for the National Hunting and Wildlife Agency, he now owns his own environmental consultancy. An active birdwatcher, he has found more than 50 species new to Guadeloupe, among them many not previously recorded in the Lesser Antilles and, in some cases, the Caribbean as a whole. He is also an eBird reviewer for the Lesser Antilles, and the founder of AMAZONA―the bird conservation NGO in Guadeloupe. Mark Oberle is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. He trained in biology and medicine at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. Mark has worked in biology and ornithology in the American tropics for four decades, and is a founding member of the Washington Ornithological Society. He has published several books, audio CDs, and a smartphone app for birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Chris is a biologist who has worked on the conservation of Neotropical birds for more than 30 years, having been based for most of that time in Venezuela, where he is a Research Associate of the Phelps Ornithological Collection (COP) and the NGO Provita, and a Founder Member of the Venezuelan Ornithologists’ Union. Chris is an editor of HBW Alive and of the Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International Field Guides series.
Number of Pages	400 pages

ISBN 13	9788416728176
Author	Guy M. Kirwan
Book Description	Para la mayoría de gente el Caribe evoca playas paradisíacas de arena fina con palmeras, pero para los ornitólogos, Cuba, Haití, Jamaica se asocian más bien a aves exóticas como los barrancolíes (Todidae) y los cocobinos (Cinclocerthia) y a una gran riqueza de aves endémicas (c.190 especies). Como muestra, seis familias de aves son exclusivas de la región y otra más, las ciguas (Spindalidae), prácticamente también lo es. Asimismo, en estas islas, se pueden observar muchas especies accidentales procedentes de Norteamérica, Sudamérica y del Viejo Mundo. Para mayor aliciente, también pueden observarse algunas de las aves más raras y amenazadas del mundo, como la reinita de Semper (Leucopeza semperi) endémica de la isla de Santa Lucía en las Antillas Menores y el carismático Picomaderos picomarfil (Campephilus principalis), cuyas últimas poblaciones conocidas se albergaban hasta hace poco en los más remotos bosques cubanos. Incluye: 712 especies; c. 190 endémicas.
Publication Date	2019-06-10

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Birds of the West Indies

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