This field guide to the birds of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras is abundantly illustrated and has comprehensive coverage of both resident (including endemics) and migratory birds. The Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America is small and light, extremely portable. the new essential Central American birding companion, Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2019. The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. winter resident = winter. Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama are all represented. Birds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of the entire region, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. And, they  are simply beautiful. Text, image, video. And, it’s good to have this beautiful book showing so many beautiful birds, which I hope most of you have seen or will see in the near future. Look at the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher below. Looking forward to seeing/reading about your travels. These introductory texts become more specific when there are multiple spreads for large bird families, like ‘Gulls Laridae.’ So, we learn that the gulls in one grouping are all rare, and the gulls in another grouping are part of a “large, cosmopolitan group,” that must be identified through studying structure, upper-wing pattern, and head pattern. The range maps are top-class and include, where relevant, well-known but isolated sites separate from species' core ranges. Birds of Central America is, of course, more current than Peterson, but both incorporate the major taxonomic splits of 2016. Obviously people not living in this area need read no further. Similar comments might be made about the images below. Each receives its corresponding illustration which reflect the differences between them. Experienced birders may remember a time when there were only three books on the birds of Central America, none of them field guides, none covering the whole isthmus. I am not sure whether it is by design, or whether the printer forgot to crank up his ink, but looking at many of the pages is like peering through gauze. The Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America is an up-to-date, comprehensive, much needed field guide; it is reasonably priced (especially when you consider it covers four countries), efficiently organized, well illustrated, and packed with as much high quality information as is possible to load into a compact guide and still maintain its readability. All stars. It is the first bird field guide to every country of Central America (plus the islands governed by those countries). Is it possible that the publisher also changed the color? Also, as mentioned, illustrations of many of the subspecies and geographic variants are frequently shown. Andrew C. Vallely & Dale Dyer Princeton University Press | 2018 584 pp. In summary, this is instantly one of my favorite field guides, and to me is the new standard of quality in the northern Neotropics. The Species Accounts section takes up the body of the book, and is arranged taxonomically according to the AOU Check-list of North American Birds, Checklist & Supplements through 2017 (with a small number of exceptions, the Introduction notes).

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