Tits, Nuthatches and TreecreepersA&C Black, 30 ביוני 2010 - 352 עמודים This guide covers all 110 of the world's species of tits, nuthatches and creepers. The Parulidae ("true" tits), Remizidae (penduline tits) and Aegithalidae (long-tailed tits) form the bulk of the book (78 species), with a further 24 species of nuthatch and eight creepers. The text covers each species under a number of headings: identification, sex and age, voice, distribution and movements, habitat, population, habits, breeding biology, description, movements, geographical variation, relationships, and references. |
תוכן
Introduction | 8 |
Acknowledgements | 9 |
Classification | 11 |
Family Introductions | 16 |
Plumages and Topography | 23 |
Notes on the Species Accounts | 25 |
Notes on the Colour Plates Captions and Maps | 33 |
Colour Plates and Distribution Maps | 35 |
Subgenus Periparus | 294 |
Subgenus Pardaliparus | 309 |
Subgenus Lophophanes | 317 |
Subgenus Melaniparus | 321 |
Subgenus Parus | 353 |
Subgenus Machlolophus | 383 |
Subgenus Cyanistes | 385 |
Subgenus Sittiparus | 397 |
Species Accounts | 109 |
Wallcreeper | 173 |
Subfamily Certhinae Tribe Certhiini Typical Treecreepers | 177 |
Spotted Creeper | 202 |
Subfamily Remizinae Penduline Tits | 205 |
True Tits | 237 |
Subgenus Baeolophus | 403 |
LONGTAILED TITS | 420 |
445 | |
Scientific Names of Birds Mentioned in the Text | 459 |
461 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
1st Adult alula Azure Tit belly bill birds blackish blue blue-grey browner Burma Carolina Chickadee central centre cheek patches Chickadee China cinnamon Coal Tit crown dark brown dark grey dull ear-coverts east eastern Eurasian Nuthatch European Penduline Tit eyestripe flanks flight feathers flocks foraging forehead forest fresh plumage GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION glossy greater coverts greyer habitat Himalayas hybrids Juvenile less Marsh Tit median coverts mid grey moult mountains nape narrowly fringed Nepal nest northern nuchal nuchal spot Nuthatch off-white outer pale grey Penduline Tit plumage populations Post-juvenile primary coverts range recorded remainder of underparts rufous rump scapulars Shan Sichuan sides of neck slightly duller slightly paler song southern Southern Black Tit species spot supercilium tail feathers tail of male tertials tinged tipped white Treecreeper Turkestan Tit undertail-coverts upper mantle upperparts upperparts slightly variable western whitish Willow Tit Wing of male winter worn plumage yellow