Few birds can match the dazzling beauty of kingfishers, bee-eaters, and rollers. Until now no comprehensive treatment of these families has appeared in a single volume. This authoritative guide provides an up-to-the-minute review of all that is known about the world's 123 species. The forty magnificient plates by Alan Harris show every species, all main subspecies, and most sex and age variations--350 portraits in all. For easy reference, color maps showing breeding and wintering ranges appear opposite the plates. Text and plates are carefully coordinated, with emphasis on behavior, field characters, and identification; and the species accounts, which form the bulk of the book, are liberally illustrated with line drawings.
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"For persons not familiar with the kingfisher, bee-eater, and roller families, and who want to learn more about these birds, this book is an eye-opener, and I can hardly imagine a more attractive introduction to them." -- The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Fry, Fry, and Harris have produced a highly useful, beautifully illustrated summary of knowledge of three groups of birds. This is one of the many new 'family' books that many ornithologists will want for their own libraries, and any institutional library used by ornithologists should obtain a copy." -- The Auk
"This book is a must for every serious birdwatcher.... It is an essential reference for anyone who is planning a trip to a hot-spot for these birds, or people who want to rekindle the memories of a Kenyan safari." -- Birdwatching --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Fry, Fry, and Harris have produced a highly useful, beautifully illustrated summary of knowledge of three groups of birds. This is one of the many new 'family' books that many ornithologists will want for their own libraries, and any institutional library used by ornithologists should obtain a copy." -- The Auk
"This book is a must for every serious birdwatcher.... It is an essential reference for anyone who is planning a trip to a hot-spot for these birds, or people who want to rekindle the memories of a Kenyan safari." -- Birdwatching --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
C. Hilary Fry is author of The Bee-Eaters (1984) and was heavily involved with the seven-volume The Birds of Africa. C. Hilary Fry and Kathie Fry made field observations specifically for this book in Kenya, Arabia, Thailand, and Western Australia. They have traveled in search of birds and to ornithological conferences on five continents. Alan Harris, a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, has been a freelance illustrator since 1980. His work has been published in over 50 books and magazines.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Awesome reference for Kingfishers species,
By Four by Four (Oxford, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters, & Rollers: A Handbook (Paperback)
I bought this book because I was doing research on Kingfishers. I was pleasantly surprised with the additional sections on Bee-eaters and Rollers. The text, color plates and maps are most helpful.
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Perching the bird,
By Ashtar Command "Seeker" (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters, & Rollers: A Handbook (Paperback)
The book "Kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers" is very aptly titled. It actually is a book about kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers, LOL. If you're interested in this rather obscure subject, this book is a must-have. If not, you may want to spend $97.98 on something else. Say, a book about waxwings, orioles and rooks.
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Field identification Length 31 cm (12 in). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
excluding streamers, white supraloral spot, rufous superciliary stripe, coraciiform birds, mandible pale horn, white frontal spot, neck blaze, azure rump, identification length, dark blue upperparts, cerylid kingfishers, arboreal termitaria, feet dark grey, confusion species, white superciliary stripe, paradise kingfisher, rufous eyebrow, other kingfishers, kingfishers occur, other halcyons, dusky fringes, pale blue rump, remaining upperparts, upper mandible black, remaining underparts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, References Forshaw, New Britain, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Mangrove Kingfisher, Description Sexes, Irian Jaya, Reference Forshaw, Sierra Leone, Description Adult, East Africa, Food Insects, Pied Kingfishers, West Africa, Cape York Peninsula, Andaman Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New South Wales, European Rollers, New Ireland, Sacred Kingfishers, Food Mainly, Congo Basin, European Bee-eaters New!
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Field identification Length 31 cm (12 in). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
excluding streamers, white supraloral spot, rufous superciliary stripe, coraciiform birds, mandible pale horn, white frontal spot, neck blaze, azure rump, identification length, dark blue upperparts, cerylid kingfishers, arboreal termitaria, feet dark grey, confusion species, white superciliary stripe, paradise kingfisher, rufous eyebrow, other kingfishers, kingfishers occur, other halcyons, dusky fringes, pale blue rump, remaining upperparts, upper mandible black, remaining underparts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, References Forshaw, New Britain, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Mangrove Kingfisher, Description Sexes, Irian Jaya, Reference Forshaw, Sierra Leone, Description Adult, East Africa, Food Insects, Pied Kingfishers, West Africa, Cape York Peninsula, Andaman Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New South Wales, European Rollers, New Ireland, Sacred Kingfishers, Food Mainly, Congo Basin, European Bee-eaters New!
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- The Birds of Africa, Volume VII by C. Hilary Fry in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sri Lanka: A Bitter Harvest (Minority Rights Group Report) by E. Nissan on page 219, and page 306
- New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay on page 124, and Back Matter
- Handbk Birds India Pakistan V6 Cuckoo-Babaxes by Salim Ali in Back Matter
- Rio Grande (Rivers of the World) by Raymond Johnson on page 233
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