Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Argentina

Juan Mazar Barnett & Mark Pearman

The most complete and updated checklist of the Birds recorded in Argentina.

This comprehensive and meticulously researched work brings together a wealth of information, combining extensive recent data with a re-evaluation of the historical literature and a re-examination of critical museum specimens, thus providing a complete update on the status of the Argentine avifauna. The list also covers the Argentine Atlantic Territory and the South Atlantic islands.

All information is summarised with brief, cross-referenced species texts, and thus the Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Argentina doubles as a field aid and a definitive reference work, useful for both the travelling birder and likewise the dedicated ornithologist, in a single handy volume.

A complete species checklist in grid format.

Life-zone codes for every species.

The latest taxonomic and systematic developments.

An in-depth analysis of 54 hypothetical species.

Detailed notes on 34 species recorded for the first time since 1987.

Notes on the last record for 42 rarities.

An evaluation of 34 species now considered erroneous.

Listings of threatened, endemic and introduced species. 164 pages.

Softback £8.00