Fully updated second edition with new additions to the Vietnam country list and the latest global conservation status for each species following the IUCN Red List.
Vietnam, home to rare secretive pheasants, jewel-like pittas, spectacular laughingthrushes and enigmatic babblers, is Asia’s most exciting new birding destination. A global biodiversity hotspot, Vietnam boasts 16 endemic species and subspecies groups, and a further 42 near-endemic species and subspecies, the largest number of any country in mainland South-East Asia. This book, the first comprehensive modern field guide dedicated to Vietnam’s rich and diverse avifauna, describes all 928 species in text, illustrations and distribution maps.
Fully updated second edition with new additions to the Vietnam country list and the latest global conservation status for each species following the IUCN Red List.
Taxonomy follows the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World.
Fully updated second edition with new additions to the Vietnam country list and the latest global conservation status for each species following the IUCN Red List.
Taxonomy follows the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World.
Detailed texts covering status, habitat and behaviour, age, sex and geographical variation, voice, and confusion species.
Over 1900 illustrations covering all species and distinctive subspecies, birds in flight, males and females, juveniles and non-breeding plumages, where appropriate.
QR code for every species, linked to complementary audiovisual material.
More than 870 full-colour range maps for all regularly occurring species.
Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.
Local species names included.