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Overview
With more than 50 gull species in the world, this family of seabirds poses some of the greatest field identification challenges of any bird group: age-related plumage changes, extensive variations within species, frequent hybridization, and complex distribution.
Gulls of the World takes on these challenges and is the first book to provide a comprehensive look at these birds. Concise text emphasizes field identification, with in-depth discussion of variations as well as coverage of habitat, status, and distribution. Abundant photographs highlight identification criteria and, crucially, factor in age and subspecific field separation. Informative species accounts are accompanied by detailed color range maps.
Gulls of the World is the most authoritative photographic guide to this remarkable bird family.
- The first book to provide in-depth coverage of all the world's gull species
- More than 600 stunning color photographs
- Concise text looks at variations, habitat, status, and distribution
- Informative species accounts and color range maps
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691180595 |
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| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Publication date: | 03/27/2018 |
| Pages: | 368 |
| Sales rank: | 1,133,642 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Geographical area 10
Sequence of species 10
Subspecies 10
General information on ageing of gulls 10
Ages and moult 12
Moult differences in different geographical areas 17
Some problems in worn, moulting and diseased birds 18
Colour abnormalities and oil staining 20
Oiling 21
Some notes on colour differences, light effects and bare part coloration 21
Judging size and jizz-the first steps to field identification 24
Judging photographs 26
Hybrid gulls 26
Introduction to the Species Accounts 30
Topography 31
The Species Accounts 34
1 Dolphin Cull: Leucophaeus scoresbii 34
2 Grey Gull: Leucophaeus modestus 37
3 Franklin's Gull: Leucophaeus pipixcan 41
4 Pallas's Gull: Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus 46
5 Audouin's Gull: Ichthyaetus audouinii 51
6 White-Eyed Gull: Ichthyaetus leucopthalmus 56
7 Sooty Gull: Ichthyaetus hemprichii 60
8 Laughing Gull: Ichthyaetus atricilla 64
9 Mediterranean Gull: Ichthyaetus melanocephalus 68
10 Relict: Gull: Ichthyaetus relictus 74
11 Common Gull: Larus canus 78
12 Kamchatke Gull: Larus (canus) kamtschatschensis 85
13 Mew Gull (Short-Billed Gull): Larus brachyrhynchus 90
14 Ring-Billed Gull: Larus delawarensis 96
15 California Gull: Larus californicus 102
16 Pacific Gull: Larus pacificus 108
17 Belcher's Gull (Band-Tailed Gull): Larus belcheri 112
18 Olrog's Gull: Larus atlanticus 116
19 Black-Tailed Gull: Larus crassirostris 120
20 Heermann's Gull: Larus heermanni 125
21 Great Black-Backed Gull: Larus marinus 129
22 Kelp Gull: Larus dominicanus 136
23 Glaucous-Winged Gull: Larus glaucescens 143
24 Western Gull: Larus occidentalis 153
25 Yellow-Footed Gull: Larus livens 159
26 Glaucous Gull: Larus hyperboreus 162
27 Iceland Gull: Larus glaucoides 172
28 Thayer's Gull: Larus thayeri 182
29 American Herring Gull: Larus smithsonianus 188
30 Herring Gull: Larus argentatus 200
31 Yellow-Legged Gull: Larus michahellis 213
32 Azores Gull: Larus (michahellis) atlantis 222
33 Armenian Gull: Larus armenicus 228
34 Caspian Gull: Larus cachinnans 233
35 Steppe Gull: Larus (cachinnans) barabensis 243
36 Monogolian Gull: Larus (vegae) mongolicus 247
37 Vega Gull: Larus vegae 252
38 Slaty-Backed Gull: Larus schistisagus 259
39 Lesser Black-Backed Gull: Larus (fuscus) intermedius/graellsii 266
40 Baltic Gull: Larus (fuscus) fuscus 274
41 Heuglin's Gull: Larus heuglini 280
42 Lava Gull: Larus fuliginosus 288
43 Brown-Headed Gull: Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus 290
44 Grey-Headed Gull: Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus 294
45 Hartlaub's Gull: Chroicocephalus hartlaubii 299
46 Silver Gull: Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae 302
47 Red-Billed Gull: Chroicocephalus (novaehollandiae) scopolinus 305
48 Black-Billed Gull: Chroicocepholus bulleri 307
49 Brown-Hooded Gull: Chroicocephalus macultipennis 310
50 Black-Headed Gull: Chroicocephalus ridibundus 314
51 Slender-Billed Gull: Chroicocephalus genei 319
52 Bonaparte's Gull: Chroicocephalus Philadelphia 324
53 Saunders's Gull: Saundersilarus saundersi 329
54 Andean Gull: Chroicocephalus serranus 332
55 Little Gull: Hydrocoloeus minutes 335
56 Ross's Gull: Hydrocoloeus rosea 341
57 Sabine's Gull: Xema sabini 345
58 Swallow-Tailed Gull: Creagus furcatus 349
59 Ivory Gull: Pagophila eburnean 351
60 Black-Legged Kittiwake: Rissa tridactyla 354
61 Red-Legged Kittiwake: Rissa brevirostris 359
Index 365