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Hummingbirds of Costa Rica

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I purchased this book (among other Costa Rica field guides) to prepare for a birding summer trip to Costa Rica. I was thrilled to find out how helpful this book was. I realize this is not meant to be a field guide, so the size did not bother me at all. This book certainly provided very helpful and detailed photographic views of the hummingbirds we would see in CR. I found this book to be absolutely essential to recognizing each hummingbird species. Currently, this seems to be the only book with real pictures (not drawn), that allows for easy hummingbird identification. And if you just want an interesting and gorgeous coffee-table book or gift for a fellow Hummingbird lover, this would be an excellent choice.

This new book on the hummingbirds of Costa Rica deals with the 44 hummingbirds native to and breeding in this Central American country. It describes physical features of hummingbirds, flight, feeding, nesting, molting, migration and more. The superb photos illustrating this book not only show all aspects of the hummingbirds' daily life, but also more than 90 species of beautiful flowers on which they feed. The scientific information presented is correct and interesting. This book is a real must for all those ornithologists and bird watchers who love these little jewels of nature !

Both authors have produced a great 'coffee table book'. Lots of facts that help people understand these tiny birds.
I agree with another reviewer that Plain Capped star throats are not only in Costa Rica, although they some of our most diligent visitors to our garden flowers in Costa Rica.

This book was purchased as a gift for relative traveling to southern Costa Rica. The birds are so beautifuuly photographed. The gift was greatly appreciated.

Exelente livro, com fotos maravilhosas, em grande quantidade e perfeitas.As informações são muito adequadas.Um detalhe, o livro é também uma enciclopédia das flores da Costa Rica.A diversidade mostrada, tanto de beija-flores como das plantas é única.As imagens primam pela qualidade e senso artístico.

A fantastically beautiful book! Plain-capped Starthroat is readily attracted to flowers and sugarwater farther north in its range; I don't think of it as an elusive canopy species at all.