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- catalog abstract ""Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds looks at the lifetime dedication of an expert naturalist who for seventy years has studied birds in tropical America, from Mexico to Peru and Venezuela. A pair of Violaceous Trogons, the only New World birds known to nest in an arboreal ants' nest; a pair of Laughing Falcons, the only raptors that might be called friends of small birds; hummingbirds which learn the songs they repeat in courtship assemblies that attract females; soaring kites that catch insects with their feet instead of their bills, as flycatchers do; and other notable birds are covered in "vintage" Skutch style."--Jacket. "Skutch also tells of the only wild birds he has ever raised from eggs, two Gray-headed Chachalacas that became strongly attached to their foster parents."--BOOK JACKET. "These and other unpublished observations on Neotropical birds, plus accounts published long ago in journals not now widely available, updated by new observations and interpretations, will add to the famous Skutch literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11218074.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Skutch also tells of the only wild birds he has ever raised from eggs, two Gray-headed Chachalacas that became strongly attached to their foster parents."--BOOK JACKET. "These and other unpublished observations on Neotropical birds, plus accounts published long ago in journals not now widely available, updated by new observations and interpretations, will add to the famous Skutch literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Trogons, Laughing Falcons, and Other Neotropical Birds looks at the lifetime dedication of an expert naturalist who for seventy years has studied birds in tropical America, from Mexico to Peru and Venezuela. A pair of Violaceous Trogons, the only New World birds known to nest in an arboreal ants' nest; a pair of Laughing Falcons, the only raptors that might be called friends of small birds; hummingbirds which learn the songs they repeat in courtship assemblies that attract females; soaring kites that catch insects with their feet instead of their bills, as flycatchers do; and other notable birds are covered in "vintage" Skutch style."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-214) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 222 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0890968500".
- catalog isPartOf "The Louise Lindsey Merrick natural environment series ; no. 29".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Latin America.".
- catalog subject "598/.098 21".
- catalog subject "Birds Latin America.".
- catalog subject "QL685.7 .S58 1999".
- catalog title "Trogons, laughing falcons, and other neotropical birds / Alexander F. Skutch ; illustrations by Dana Gardner.".
- catalog type "text".