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Description: |
608 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm |
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General Note: |
"Reprinted with corrections"--Title page verso |
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Originally published: London : C. Helm, 2003. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 586-605) and index. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Review: "This guide offers the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia. Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson treat a total of forty-three species - each depicted in considerable detail, with a full description of every plumage and racial variation. The text is complemented not only by color paintings by Larsson, but also by more than 800 color photographs." "As well as identification criteria, this book includes an up-to-date assessment of the range and status of every species, together with information on patterns of vagrancy." "This important guide is published at a critical time in the development of gull taxonomy. The large white-headed gulls found in North America, Europe, and Asia comprise a super-species complex, with the precise relationships between various components still under considerable debate. A thorough illustrative and textual treatment of the group is needed, and this book provides the most recent and complete overview."--Jacket |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Species Accounts -- 1. Black-tailed Gull -- Larus crassirostris -- 2. Heermann's Gull -- Larus heermanni -- 3. White-eyed Gull -- Larus leucophthalmus -- 4. Sooty Gull -- Larus hemprichii -- 5.Common Gull -- Larus canus -- 6. Mew Gull -- Larus brachyrhynchus -- 7. Audouin's Gull -- Larus audouinii -- 8. Ring-billed Gull -- Larus delawarensis -- 9. Californian Gull -- Larus californicus -- 10. Great Black-backed Gull -- Larus marinus -- 11. Kelp Gull -- Larus dominicanus -- 12. Glaucous-winged Gull -- Larus glaucescens -- 13. Western Gull -- Larus occidentalis -- 14. Yellow-footed Gull -- Larus livens -- 15. Glaucous Gull -- Larus hyperboreus -- 16. Iceland Gull -- Larus glaucoides -- 17. Thayer's Gull -- Larus thayeri -- 18. American Herring Gull -- Larus smithsonianus -- 19. Herring Gull -- Larus argentatus -- 20. Yellow-legged Gull -- larus michahellis -- 21. Armenian Gull -- Larus armenicus -- 22. Caspian Gull -- Larus cachinnans -- 23. Vega Gull -- Larus vegae -- 24. Slaty-backed Gull -- Larus schistisagus -- 25. Lesser Black-backed Gull -- Larus fuscus -- 26. Heuglin's Gull -- Larus heuglini -- 27. Pallas's Gull -- Larus ichthyaetus -- 28. Brown-headed Gull -- Larus brunnicephalus -- 29. Grey-headed Gull -- Larus cirrocephalus -- 30. Black-headed Gull -- Larus ridibundus -- 31. Slender-billed Gull -- Larus genei -- 32. Bonaparte's Gull -- Larus philadelphia -- 33. Saunders' Gull -- Larus saundersi -- 34. Mediterranean Gull -- Larus malenocephalus -- 35. Relict Gull -- Larus relictus -- 36. Laughing Gull -- Larus atricilla -- 37. Franklin's Gull -- Larus pipixcan -- 38. Little Gull -- Larus minutus -- 39. Sabine's Gull -- Larus sabini -- 40. Ivory Gull -- Pagophila eburnea -- 41. Ross's Gull -- Rhodostethia rosea -- 42. Black-legged Kittiwake -- Rissa tridactyla -- 43. Red-legged Kittiwake -- Rissa brevirostris. |