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Rails: A Guide to Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Rails: A Guide to Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World
Contributors:
By (Author) Barry Taylor
Illustrated by Ber van Perlo
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Pica Press
Publication Date:
5th August 2001
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Zoology: birds (ornithology)
Dewey:
598.32
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
600
Dimensions:
Width 170mm, Height 240mm
Weight:
1620g
Description
This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogenous family of birds spread throughout the world. Most species are solitary and somewhat secretive, and therefore high on the wanted lists of many birders, but the moorhens and coots are generally common and familiar birds of wetlands. A number of species are flightless and confined to small islands, and several are extinct as a result of man and introduced predators.
