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Description
Birds of Seychelles - the definitive field guide to these jewels of the Indian Ocean - just got even better.
This enhanced fixed-format version of the book - featuring songs and calls - is set to change birding forever.
Optimised for iPad, it presents the book in crisp, clear high-resolution. Superb, fully zoomable colour plates of the highest detail lie opposite comprehensive identification text and accurate range maps, In addition, the e-book features songs, calls, and other sounds from 250 species, representing coverage of more than 95% of species that occur on these islands, placed conveniently next to the accompanying species text.
This epic collection of images and sounds represents a step change in the way birders operate. No more carrying hey books into the field; no more trying to remember sounds days or weeks after the event, while all other methods for taking sounds into the field are consigned to the dustbin. This e-book provides a complete field-based ID solution - no birder will want to be without it.
This compact field guide, based on Birds of Seychelles by Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock and Tony Disley (Helm 2000), is the only field guide to cover all of the more than 250 species recorded in Seychelles, including all residents, migrants and vagrants.
Concise text on facing pages highlights key identification features, including habitat, distribution, status and voice. The 65 colour plates, featuring over 800 images, are based on the authors' previous work, but with the addition of many new images.
The text has been completely re-written and revised for this edition, and the plates have been re-worked to accommodate a number of new additions to the country's list. There are now 12 more plates than in the first edition.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
How to Use This Book
Glossary
Topography
Geography
Climate
Organisations and Websites
Important Bird Areas
Species Accounts (Plates 1-65)
Checklist of the Birds of Seychelles
Bird Names in the Official Languages of Seychelles
Distribution of Endemic Taxa in the Inner Islands
Distribution of the Endemic Taxa in the Outer Islands
References and Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 28 Feb 2013 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 176 |
| ISBN | 9781408181249 |
| Imprint | Helm |
| Illustrations | More than 800 illustrations on 65 colour plates |
| Series | Helm Field Guides |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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As a single resource to take with you to the Seychelles, this compact and comprehensive guide certainly does the job
Bulletin of the African Bird Club
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This is an indispensable bird guide for visitors to the Seychelles, whether they are visiting birders or nature-loving tourists... It is certainly a book I wish I'd had when I visited the Seychelles some years ago - it is superb.
The Biologist
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This is a handy book that will take up very little room in one's bag.
Keith Betton, BTO News
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This is a fine book that belongs on the shelves of field-guide collectors, birders or ornithologists planning to visit the Seychelles, and ornithologists interested in island biology.
The Auk

























