Birds & Natural History 2010 Read newsworthy and lively commentary on our new blog at press.princeton.edu/blog press.princeton.edu Contents 9 Princeton Field Guides 25 Princeton Pocket Guides 16 Field Guides 26 Insects & Spiders 17 Identification Guides 27 Of Related Interest 18 Princeton Illustrated Checklists 29 Index/Order Form 20 Photographic Guides 22 Reference A Message from the Editor Welcome to a new Birds and Natural History catalog. It’s a pleasure to introduce a rich and diverse crop of new titles. On publication, Birds of Peru became an instant classic and is widely recognized as a landmark book. Now it has been brought up to the minute in a new revised and updated paperback edition that includes recently recorded species. Paul Sterry and Brian Small’s photographic guides to the birds of Eastern and Western North America have received enthusiastic reviews from all quar- ters and look set to become the established guides of choice for discern- ing birders. The quality of photographs and engaging layout mark them out from competing books, and they are keenly priced to boot. Changing gears, Valérie Chansigaud’s All about Birds is a colorful and lively short history of ornithology; packed with illustrations and potted biographies, it is a treasure trove of useful information. Moving from the general to the particular, we have Nigel Cleere’s superb family identification guide, Nightjars, an exhaustive photographic guide to the world’s 135 species. The book contains as yet unpublished photographs of many elusive and rare species, and is a truly invaluable reference to this cryptic family. Forshaw and Knight’s Parrots of the World is a dazzling field guide based on their authoritative work published in 2006. For the new book, they have organized species treatment by region to facilitate field use. One of the most exciting books in this new catalog is Greg Paul’s playfully titled The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. Paul has done much to establish the modern “look” of dinosaurs, but in this book, using the conventions of a traditional field guide, he has surpassed himself. The species-by-spe- cies treatment, covering more than 735 true dinosaurs, marries informa- tive text with stunning color and black-and-white reconstructions. The result is, quite simply, breathtaking. Whatever your level of interest, this wonderful book is guaranteed to intrigue and entertain. Lastly, do please check out Tui De Roy’s gorgeous Galapagos, a beautiful photographic study of the wildlife and scenery of the archipelago. Happy browsing! Robert Kirk Executive Editor, Field Guides & Natural History Cover image: T. rex by Gregory S. Paul, The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, page 7. New—Revised and Updated Edition With a foreword by Dr. Antonio Brack Egg Winner of the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and Environment category Birds of Peru Thomas S. Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O’Neill & Theodore A. Parker III “A major accomplishment.” —Birder’s World “[T]he guide against which all others for the New World tropics will be judged.” —Don Stap, Audubon “Rarely in the history of tropical ornithology have so many waited so long and so eagerly for a field guide to appear. The end result of this long process is a spectacular addition to the literature on South American birds. The plates are superb, the guide is easy to use in the field, the range maps features include are informative and accurate, and the text is concise while still including essential information.” • A comprehensive guide to all —Scott K. Robinson, Auk 1,817 species found in Peru—one fifth of the world’s birds—with Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field subspecies, sexes, age classes, guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features and morphs fully illustrated every one of Peru’s 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. • Designed especially for field use, Concise descriptions and color distribution maps are with vivid descriptive informa- located opposite the plates, making this book much easier tion and helpful identification to use in the field than standard neotropical field guides. tips opposite color plates This fully revised paperback edition includes twenty-five additional species. • Detailed species accounts, includ- ing a full-color distribution map Thomas S. Schulenberg is a research associate at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Douglas F. Stotz is an ornitholo- • Includes 25 additional species gist and conservation ecologist at the Field Museum in not covered in the first edition Chicago. Daniel F. Lane and John P. O’Neill are illustrators and field ornithologists, and both are research associates at the • Features 3 entirely new plates Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. Lane and more than 25 additional also leads Field Guides birding tours. Theodore A. Parker III, illustrations who worked throughout Peru before his death in 1993, was the premier neotropical field ornithologist of his time. Princeton Field Guides 2010. 668 pages. 307 color plates. 1,808 maps. 6 x 8. Pa: 978-0-691-13023-1 $39.50 Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and the European Union press.princeton.edu 1 New One of the “Year’s Best Gardening Books” for 2009, Washington Post Birds of North America The Photographic Guides Paul Sterry & Brian E. Small Combining informative and accessible text, up-to-date maps, and—above all—stunning color photographs, these are the best and most lavishly illustrated photographic guides to the birds of eastern and western North America. All of the images have been carefully selected to convey both the sheer beauty and the key identification features of each bird, and many of the photos are larger than those found in other guides. Wherev- er possible, a variety of plumages are pictured, providing visual coverage and usefulness matching any artwork-illustrated field guide. And many of the images are state-of-the-art digital photographs by Brian Small, one of North America’s finest bird photographers. These pictures, many seen here for the first time, reproduce a previously unimaginable level of detail. Finally, the ranges of nearly all species are shown on maps from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the authority on North American birding. New and experienced birders alike will find these guides indispensable: the clear layout will help novices easily identify the birds they see, while the superb photographs will help seasoned birders confirm identifications. • Birds of Eastern North America covers the entire eastern half of mainland North America and the arctic and subarctic ter- ritorial islands of the U.S. and Canada • Birds of Western North America covers the entire western half of mainland North America (excluding Mexico) and the arctic and subarctic territorial islands of the U.S. and Canada (exclud- ing Hawaii) “Informative and accessible text, Paul Sterry is a highly regarded and best-selling wildlife author up-to-date maps, and stunning and photographer. He is the author or coauthor of more than color photographs. Images have 50 books. Brian E. Small is a leading nature photographer and been carefully selected to con- author, and the photo editor of Birding magazine. He has been vey both the sheer beauty and the principal photographer for many photographic field guides. the key identification features of each bird, and many of the Birds of Eastern North America photos are larger than those 2009. 336 pages. 1,118 color photos. 405 maps. 5 ½ x 8. Pa: 978-0-691-13426-0 $18.95 | £12.95 found in most other guides.” Cl: 978-0-691-13425-3 $45.00 | £30.95 —Ornithological Newsletter Birds of Western North America 2009. 416 pages. 1,341 color photos. 449 maps. 5 ½ x 8. Pa: 978-0-691-13428-4 $18.95 | £12.95 Cl: 978-0-691-13427-7 $45.00 | £30.95 2 features include “Photos are tack-sharp, and tightly cropped, giving close-up • The best, most lavishly illustrated views of each bird.” photographic guides to North —Matt Mendenhall, Birder’s World American birds “Whether you are a birding fanatic or someone who enjoys • Larger color photos than most looking in their backyard to see what shows up, there is a new other field guides bird guide that will fill your need. With great photos of more than 500 species, this is a wonderful photographic guide mak- • Fresh contemporary design— ing identification of birds that much easier. Both the Eastern clear, easy-to-use, and attractives and Western versions are great gift ideas.” • Informative, accessible, and —Ken Moran, New York Post authoritative text “Stunning. This was the first word that came to mind upon • Explores special topics in depth cracking open these new guides. The photography alone is worth owning both Eastern and Western editions. Even so, the • Range maps from the Cornell accompanying text is fantastic too.” Laboratory of Ornithology —Eddie Callaway, Birdfreak.com The best, most lavishly illustrated photographic guides to North American birds press.princeton.edu 3 New All about Birds A Short Illustrated History of Ornithology Valérie Chansigaud “This is the deepest and most thorough history of ornithol- ogy that I have seen. The mixture of history, biographical sketches, period illustrations, and science give it a broad appeal, and the writing is quite engaging. An important feature of the book is its coverage of European ornithol- ogy, which nicely complements books on the history of American ornithology and birding. The book’s timeline is especially valuable.” —Frank Gill, former president, American Ornithologist’s Union Colorful, musical, graceful, easily observed—birds have features include always fascinated amateur and professional naturalists alike. This richly illustrated book tells the fascinating story of orni- • A clear and concise chronologi- thology from ancient times to the present.