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Birds of the Serengeti : And Ngorongoro Conservation Area /
Located in northern Tanzania, the Serengeti is one of the world's most famous wildlife regions. Birds of the Serengeti is a groundbreaking and essential photographic guide, featuring more than 270 bird species most likely to be encountered in the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservat...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; About this book; The habitats; Plains; Marsh and water; Woodland, scrub & garden; Acacia scrub; Village; Forest; Up in the air; Nightbirds; Lake Victoria specials; Map of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- NCA; BIRDS OF THE PLAINS; The Big Ones: 1
- Ostrich; The Big Ones: 2
- Secretarybird and Grey Crowned Crane; Bustards
- Kori, Black-bellied and White-bellied Bustards . .; Small plover & coursers
- Double-banded and Temminck's Coursers and Kittlitz's Plover; Vanellus plovers
- Crowned, Senegal and Black-winged Plovers.
- Sandgrouse
- Black-faced, Yellow-throated and Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse .Storks and ground hornbill
- White and Abdim's Storks and Southern Ground Hornbill; At the carcass
- Marabou Stork and Rüppell's and White-backed Vultures; Vultures
- White-headed, Hooded and Lappet-faced Vultures .; Vultures in flight
- all species for comparison; Black-and-white eagles and Egyptian Vulture
- Martial and Black-chested Snake Eagles and Egyptian Vulture; Black-and-white eagles
- Verreaux's Eagle, Augur Buzzard and Bateleur; Brown raptors
- Black Kite and Tawny and Steppe Eagles.
- Raptors in flight
- all species for comparisonGrey raptors
- Pallid and Montagu's Harriers and African Harrier Hawk; Large falcon and grey kite
- Lanner Falcon and Black-shouldered Kite; Small falcons
- Grey, Common and Lesser Kestrels; Rollers
- Lilac-breasted and Eurasian Rollers; Oxpeckers and starling
- Red-billed and Yellow-billed Oxpeckers and Wattled Starling; Little brown jobs or 'LBJs'
- Pectoral-patch and Zitting Cisticolas and Red-capped and Rufous-naped Larks . .; Sparrow lark and chats
- Fischer's Sparrow Lark and Sooty and Anteater Chats.
- Wheatears
- Capped, Northern and Pied WheatearsUpright birds of the plains
- Yellow-throated and Rosy-breasted Longclaws and Buffy and Grassland Pipits; Bishop and widowbirds
- Yellow Bishop and Yellow-mantled and Jackson's Widowbirds; BIRDS OF MARSH AND WATER; Flamingos
- Greater and Lesser Flamingos; Wetland storks
- Woolly-necked, Yellow-billed and African Open-billed Storks; Stork and ibises
- Saddle-billed Stork and Sacred and Hadada Ibises; Small herons
- Hamerkop and Striated and Squacco Herons; Large, dark herons
- Goliath, Grey and Black-headed Herons.
- Egrets
- Cattle, Little and Great White EgretsFish eagle
- African Fish Eagle; Smaller ducks
- Red-billed Teal and White-faced Whistling and Fulvous Whistling Ducks; Larger wildfowl
- Spur-winged and Egyptian Geese and Knob-billed Duck; Birds of the water's edge
- Black-winged Stilt, African Jacana and Black Crake .; Wetland plovers
- African Wattled, Blacksmith and Spur-winged Plovers; Waders: 1
- Water Thick-knee and Ruff; Waders: 2
- Common Greenshank, Marsh Sandpiper and Three-banded Plover; Waders: 3
- Wood, Common and Green Sandpipers; Kingfishers
- Giant, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers.
- Wagtails and waxbill
- Yellow and African Pied Wagtails and Common Waxbill.