This title features authoritative text and detailed maps for every species and is produced under the auspices of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East. There are also introductory chapters on geography, climate, habitats, history of ornithology, and conservation.

The definitive guide to the cotingas and manakins, the most colourful and spectacular of all South American bird families. This book looks in detail at two families of South American birds, the cotingas and manakins, perhaps the most colourful of all neotropical bird groups, and widely regarded as the South American equivalent of New Guinea's Birds of Paradise. The book is a synthesis of the very latest research into the identification, taxonomy and behaviour of each of the 160 species, along with detailed colour maps, several hundred previously unpublished colour photographs, and Eustace...