Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Central America

This is the one compact, portable, and user-friendly field guide the novice or experienced birder needs to identify birds in the field in the diverse habitats found in Costa Rica. It features descriptions and illustrations of all 903 species definitely known from Costa Rica, including pelagics and species regular to Cocos Island. Fifty-six of these species are placed in a "Rarities" section that includes accidentals, rarer pelagics, and species that have not been reported in more than twenty years.

The detailed full-color illustrations show identifying features including plumage...

The unique geography and climate of Costa Rica provide the small country with extraordinary biodiversity North American and South American species of flora and fauna can be found side by side there, taking advantage of the serendipitous conditions. The government of Costa Rica has shown a strong commitment to preserving their natural bounty. It has expressed this wildlife conservation ethic by establishing a robust network of national parks designed to protect pieces of every type of ecosystem and preserve watersheds. The country's twenty-six national parks and other protected areas...

Amphibians of Costa Rica is the first in-depth field guide to all 206 species of amphibians known to occur in Costa Rica or within walking distance of its borders. A diminutive nation with abundant natural wealth, the country is host to 146 species of frogs and toads. Frogs of gemlike beauty and dizzying variety abound: some species can fit on the end of a human finger; others would take two hands to hold. In the rainforests, you can find frogs capable of gliding from high in the treetops to the forest floor, some that carry their eggs or their tadpoles around on their back, and...

Two White Feathers and a Handful of Rocks tells the gripping story of Jenny Chapman's journey with a Peruvian shaman, Apu, to activate and unlock the code of the mysterious Earth chakra system. Together they travel through South and Central America to unravel the ancient secrets of the Earth. Starting in Aconcagua, Argentina, the highest mountain outside of the Himalayas, and the seat of kundalini energy and new root chakra for the world, they finish with a sacred ceremony at Teotihuacan in Mexico. An epic tale of healing and learning for the new feminine era.