Handbook of avian hybrids of the world

McCarthy, Eugene M. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0195183231 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195183238
Physical Description: print
xiv, 583 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-514) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Using this book -- Identifying hybrids -- Hybrid zones -- Hybrid populations and taxa -- Causes of hybridization -- Underreporting -- Future research -- Cross accounts -- Ostriches, rheas, and kiwis -- Tinamous -- Brush-turkeys and scrubfowl -- Upland game birds -- New world quail -- Screamers -- Swans, geese, and ducks -- Honeyguides -- Woodpeckers -- Barbets and tinkerbirds -- Toucans and aracaris -- Jacamars -- Puffbirds -- Hornbills -- Hoopoes -- Woodhoopoes -- Scimitar-bills -- Trogons -- Rollers -- Courol -- Motmots -- Todies -- Kingfishers -- Kookaburras -- Bee-eaters -- Mousebirds -- Cuckoos and coucals -- Parrots and their allies -- Cockatoos -- Swifts -- Crested-swifts -- Hummingbirds -- Turacos -- Barn owls -- Typical owls -- Nightjars, frogmouths and nighthawks -- Pigeons and doves -- Bustards -- Cranes -- Rails -- Sandgrouse -- Plovers, sandpipers and their allies -- Jacanas -- Oystercatchers -- Stilts and avocets -- Pratincoles -- Jaegers and skuas -- Gulls, terns and noddies -- Alcids -- Eagles, hawks and old world vultures -- Falcons -- Grebes -- Boobies and gannets -- Cormorants -- Herons and egrets -- Flamingos -- Ibises and spoonbills -- Pelicans -- New world vultures -- Storks -- Penguins -- Loons -- Shearwaters, petrels and prions -- Albatrosses -- Pittas -- Asities -- Tyrant flycatchers -- Manakins -- Ovenbirds and their allies -- Australo-Papuan treecreepers -- Lyrebirds -- Bowerbirds -- Fairywrens -- Honeyeaters -- Pardalotids -- Australo-Papuan robins -- Australo-Papuan babblers -- Shrikes -- Vireos and greenlets -- Quail-thrushes -- Sitellas -- Whistlers and shrike-thrushes -- Jays and magpie-jays -- Crows, ravens, magpies and nutcrackers -- Birds of paradise -- Artamids -- Figbirds and orioles -- Cuckoo-shrikes -- Fantails and drongos -- Ioras -- Bushshrikes and helmetshrikes -- Waxwings -- Thrushes -- Old world flycatchers -- Starlings and mynas -- Mimids -- Nuthatches -- Wrens, tree-creepers and gnatcatchers -- Chickadees and their allies -- Swallows -- Regulids -- Bulbuls and greenbuls --Cisticolids -- White-eyes -- Old world warblers -- Larks -- Sunbirds and their allies -- Old world sparrows -- Pipits and wagtails -- Weavers and their allies -- Estrildine finches -- Fringillid finches -- Emberizine sparrows and their allies -- Wood warblers -- Tanagers and honeycreepers -- Cardinals and their allies -- New world blackbirds -- Appendices -- 1. Canary crosses -- 2. Dubious reports -- 3. Internet citations Works cited -- Index.