" Few birds can match the dazzling beauty of kingfishers, bee-eaters, and rollers. Until now no comprehensive treatment of these families has appeared in a single volume. This authoritative guide provides an up-to-the-minute review of all that is known about the world's 123 species. The forty magnificient plates by Alan Harris show every species, all main subspecies, and most sex and age variations--350 portraits in all. For easy refer ..."
" Few birds can match the dazzling beauty of kingfishers, bee-eaters, and rollers. Until now no comprehensive treatment of these families has appeared in a single volume. This authoritative guide provides an up-to-the-minute review of all that is known about the world's 123 species. The forty magnificient plates by Alan Harris show every species, all main subspecies, and most sex and age variations--350 portraits in all. For easy refer ..."
"A review of the world's 123 species of kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers. The colour plates show every species, all main subspecies, and most sex and age variations. The text and plates emphasize behaviour, field characters and identification. The author also wrote "The Bee-eaters" and "The Birds of Africa". Alan Harris was voted British Birds "Bird Illustrator of the Year"."
"Dazzling in their beauty, many of the 123 species of kingfisher, bee-eater and roller are very poorly known. This reference provides a review of the group showing every species, all the main races and most sex and age variations. Text and plates are closely co-ordinated with emphasis on behaviour, field characters and identifcation. Colour maps showing breeding and wintering ranges are also included."
"Dazzling in their beauty, many of the 123 species of kingfisher, bee-eater and roller are very poorly known. This reference provides a review of the group showing every species, all the main races and most sex and age variations. Text and plates are closely co-ordinated with emphasis on behaviour, field characters and identifcation. Colour maps showing breeding and wintering ranges are also included."
"The Kingfisher, A/cedo atthis, not just a European species but one that is found
as far away as the Solomon Islands, has a ... Although they really belong to the
Old World tropics, a few - the green and some of the giant kingfishers — fill the
New ... shade of emerald, commonly with scarlet bill and legs, they have in fact
been evolutionarily rather conservative in the ... will encourage birders not only to
seek out these exquisite ..."
"Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de zoologie en 1960, Hilary Fry a enseigné au Nigeria où il s est beaucoup intéressé aux oiseaux tropicaux en général et aux sociétés de guêpiers en particulier. A l époque où il faisait des conférences sur la biologie humaine et l ornithologie à l université d Aberdeen, il publia des articles sur la biologie et la spéciation du rollier et écrivit Les Guêpiers (1984). Il s est beaucoup investi avec Les ois ..."