Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname: Revised and Updated Second Edition - Couverture souple

Spaans, Arie L; Ottema, Otte; Ribot, Jan Hein J M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9004352317 ISBN 13 : 9789004352315

Editeur : Brill, 2018

Synopsis

Most of Surinames land area is covered with tropical rainforest and a must-visit for birdwatchers. In this revised edition of the Field Guide to the Birds of Suriname, all 751 species known to occur in the country are described and depicted in color.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

During the 1970s, dr. Arie L. Spaans (1937) lived for five years in Suriname where, on behalf of the Suriname Forest Service, he studied the distribution and ecology of coastal birds. Since then, he has regularly been returning to Suriname for short field trips. He is the author of Coastal Birds of Suriname (2003) and (with Otte Ottema and Jan Hein Ribot as co-authors) has also published an Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Suriname (2009). Since 2002, he is chairman of the Foundation Friends of Nature Conservation in Suriname.

During the 1990s, Otte H. Ottema (1952) lived for nine years in French Guiana, running a school for children of Surinamese refugees and working for a French nature conservation organization. In 1999, he moved to Suriname where he worked for the Foundation for Nature Conservation in Suriname (STINASU). Since his retirement in 2010, he has been working as a freelance bird guide. He is the author of Wild Birds of Paramaribo (2007) and was a co-author of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Suriname.

Dr. Jan Hein J.M. Ribot (1949) lived in Suriname from 1978 until 1985, working as a lecturer in physics at the University of Suriname. From 1985 until his retirement in 2014, he worked at the University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. He regularly returns to Suriname. He is a co-author of the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Suriname and maintains a website on Suriname birds (http://www.surinamebirds.nl) that he started 20 years ago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004352317
• ISBN 13: 9789004352315
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 658
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible