Birds of the World: Their Life and Habits,

Revised Edition. Combining scientific exactitude with clarity of explanation, this lavishly illustrated fully revised edition will delight biologists, wildlife photographers, and armchair naturalists, and will surely inspire a new generation of bird lovers. This volume contains a spectacular array of more than three hundred illustrations, nearly one third of them in color; photographs by internationally known artists, such as Eric Hosking; and vivid drawings by the author himself. In pictures and text, it examines the many facets of bird behavior on a world-wide scale -- from Florida to Greenland, from the Dead Sea to the Himalayas.