Parrots of the World
By (Author) Joseph M. Forshaw
Illustrated by Frank Knight
CSIRO Publishing
CSIRO Publishing
1st October 2010
Australia
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
598.00
Paperback
336
From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organised by geographical distribution Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb colour plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat and status.