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"The Field Guide volume, 'intended primarily for field use,' contains plates, distribution maps, and text geared toward the identification of all the birds of Ecuador (excluding the Galapagos Islands). Its companion, Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy, suggested 'for your library (or hotel room or even car),' covers the occurrence and systematics of these same species. Undoubtedly, the field guide will be the volume most often consulted; an excellent aid for field identification of Ecuadorian birds, it will also be useful in much of Colombia, northern Peru, and western Brazil. Illustrations make or break a field guide. The 96 color plates, all by Greenfield, are vibrant, clear, and very effective. They depict nearly the entire avifauna, including migrants and species known in Ecuador only from a single record. They also show many rarely illustrated plumages (such as in the highly polymorphic hawks and eagles). . . . The Field Guide will be indispensable to all field biologists and birdwatchers visiting Ecuador and northwestern South America."―Thomas S. Schulenberg, Science, September 14, 2001"What Ridgely and Greenfield have produced is arguably the most important publication on birds in the region since the appearance of Wetmore's. . . treatise on the birds of Panama a half-century ago. . . The accounts are compacted but chock-full of information, covering status, habitat, field marks, similar species, habits, and voice. Despited the fact that this is a supurb field guide, . . . it is the companion volume that elevates these books to a rarified standing. This book consists of accounts for all the species in the field guide. . . The second volume makes this set more than just a field guide and handbook. It makes it perhaps the single most important reference for students, professionals, and bird watchers interested in the birds of South America, one that will be a first source for decades."―Eirik A.T. Blom, Bird Watcher's Digest, November/December 2001"This long awaited, monumental two volume set reveals the ornithological secrets and diversity of this small Latin American nation. . . The two amassed so much information, they could not fit it inone book. . . The Birds of Ecuador is an incredible achievement and is most highly recommended."―Dan R. Kunkle, Wildlife Activist, No. 43, Autumn 2001"The long awaited Birds of Ecuador is finally out and the results are well worth the wait. The 2-volume set is a massive piece of work and the authors intended the 2-volume set to be used by both traveling birders and ornithologists. . . .Both volumes complement each other perfectly and are well worth the price. These volumes add tremendously to the available informaton of South American avifauna."―Oscar Carmona. Surfbirds Book Reviews, October 2001"The Birds of Ecuador is a monumental guide to the birds of this country and does a remarkable job of describing them all. . . . Volume 1 of Birds of Ecuador could stand alone as a resource; however, it is completed (and made much more useful) by the accompanying volume 2 with its illustrations, descriptions, and range maps. The two volumes of this title will remain the stand for this country and for other South American bird guides for a long time. It is highly recommended for any research library."―Alex Boss, University of Illinois at Chicago Library. E-Streams, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 2003"Many of us can only long to travel to exotic birding places in South America,. . . but Ridgely and Greenfield live the dream and generously share it with us through their exquisite writings and paintings. . . In summary, this is a thorough and thoughtful production that not only provides useful and complete information, but does so in a user-friendly manner. . . The decades-long wait for these volumes has been worth it!"―Geoff Carpentier, Birders Journal, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 2001/January 2002"Eagerly awaited though it was, this work surpasses all expectations. On my own past trips into the phenomenal birdland of Ecuador I have longed for good information, and here it is in a double shot: a superb field guide and a thorough reference volume, both indispensable. Robert S. Ridgely and Paul J. Greenfield have done a brilliant job of making this complicated avifauna accessible and understandable for the rest of us. Ornithology, birding, and conservation all stand to benefit tremendously from this landmark work."―Kenn Kaufman, author of Focus Guide to the Birds of North America"A monumental work that sets a new standard for South American bird guides, Birds of Ecuador fills a huge information vacuum. These volumes are a fitting tribute to the authors' passion and commitment to pass on their unparalleled knowledge of one of the world's richest avifaunas. Those who have not survived such a project cannot imagine the magnitude of this undertaking ―Ecuador's nearly 1600 bird species are here made accessible in a user-friendly format. Birders, ornithologists, and conservationists alike will all benefit from this landmark publication."―Steve N. G. Howell, author of A Bird-Finding Guide to Mexico"Birds of Ecuador is a tremendous and unique resource, not just for people interested in Ecuador, but for anybody interested in the birds of the Andean and Amazonian countries of South America. With its detailed distributional records and some of the first critical appraisals of the birds' subspecies and ecology, Volume One: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy is for when you have time to really think about the birds. You won't have to lug this volume to the field with you, but you'll still have a convenient resource with which to find out more about the birds."―Douglas Stotz, The Chicago Field Museum of Natural History
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About the Author
Robert S. Ridgely is a world-renowned ornithologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences and the author of Birds of Panama and Birds of South America. Paul J. Greenfield has been studying and painting the birds while residing in Ecuador for 28 years. Frank B. Gill is Senior Vice President of Science for the National Audubon Society, former President of the American Ornithologists' Union, and the author of Ornithology.
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Product details
Paperback: 880 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press; 1 edition (June 26, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080148720X
ISBN-13: 978-0801487200
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1.9 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
90 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#2,009,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
While this 'field guide' to Ecuador has excellent plates it suffers in three very important ways. 1) It is huge! Yes, Ecuador has about twice as many birds as are typically seen in US guides, but because of the added text this book isn't going to be a practical travel book. 2) the plates and distribution are on different pages. When you use a guide like this in the field you find yourself having to spend more time flipping through the book. and (most importantly) 3) It EXCLUDES the Galapagos Islands! yes, there are plenty of guides for the Galapagos Islands. But if you bring them AND this book you are looking at some serious SERIOUS weight.So if they named this "Birds of Mainland Ecuador", dropped the 'Field Guide' designation and clarified the location, I think I would be up there in the 5 star range.But then I wouldn't have bought it in the first place.I would think they could do the same book more like Garrigues' "Birds of Costa Rica". It would be a much more useful guide.I suppose what one COULD do is slice up the plates and bring them, but then you wouldn't have the distribution maps. That goes against the grain through.
This field guide is OK because there are not other options. It is so big and heavy that it will be a desk reference rather than a functional book to use in the field. It has plates in the middles with numbers rather than names and one has to constantly look back and forth to match them. There are currently no real good options for Ecuador birds. Someone needs to be working on a field guide like The Birds of Costa Rica A Field Guide which is user friendly and can be used in the field. This book needs to cover the birds with half the size and weight and plates changed to the format that modern guides are following.
Whether or not you like this book really depends on how you intend to use it. It is not something that you would want to carry with you into the field, because it is way to cumbersome. It really is much more of a reference book. Two other aspects of how this book is organized and presented also make it impractical for a field guide. The first (and a real pet peeve of mine with many birding books is that plates of birds are in a different section of the book, so your always flipping back and forth between the written descriptions and the plates. The second problem that I have with this book is that there are no real pictures, just plate drawings. I tend to be pretty visual (that's probably why I like birding in the first place), when I received the book I was expecting pictures, not plates, so I was a bit disappointed. Real pictures would have has some redeeming effect on the organization of the book. That being said, as a reference book, it really has just about everything you need or would want to know about all of the species you will likely encounter.
Actually, this is volume 2 of a set of two books. But it is this volume that is meant to be taken to the field. For the first time, there is a full set of very useful color plates for one of the core South American countries. It is certainly a great accomplishment to have all the species pictured in color and on a more or less consistent standard. However, I do not agree with other reviewers who rave about the plates. Too many of the bird pictures have an overall flat appearance, with the color rendition being too simplistic or too bold. And while a good number of the birds are depicted in good or even in unnecessarily large size, others would have benefitted from a larger sized rendition. Just because a species is small does not mean it has to be depicted in a diminutive size, unless there are larger species of the same group on the plate. Thus, while the plates are most useful, it is nevertheless disappointing to see that the overall standard (except for the plates being all in color) is rather lower than what was already published decades ago e.g. in "Birds of Colombia".The book has excellent range maps and very helpful comprehensive texts. However, a somewhat more compact layout would have allowed for a smaller overall size of the book. The way to do it is being demonstrated in the book itself. The texts facing the plates use the suggested compact layout most convincingly. Spanish bird names are given in the main text, but, unfortunately, there is no index for them.(This is an adapted review I originally published in 2002 for the so-called slipcased two-volume edition. As it concerned the fieldguide, but disappeared, here it is again.)
I hate to hack appart this wonderful book, but it is a must. In reality this should be a three volume book. The field guide should look more like a peterson guide. Keep the plates and give me some small range maps in the back.That being said even after hacking it into two parts, it is worth the money. The illustrations and descriptions are accurate and aside from modifying the format there is nothing I would change about it except the much needed addition of an index for the plates would have been helpful. I added my own. Otherwise you have to flip through the bird families; this is time consuming.It is very helpful that there is a map in the very beginning with notable locations and the opposite page has them numbered in the key.Again do not worry about modifying this book in anyway. Hell, I hope to come across someone in my travels who took the time to organize the range maps and put them all right after the plates. I will be impressed. So, just keep half with you in the field and half at your lodgings. You won't be the only one walking around around Ecuador with a glued, stapled, or taped up version of this guide sticking out of your vest pocket. Just give your fellow travelers a nod.
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