A Field Guide to the Birds of Galapagos

Very Good used hardcover. Previous owner's pencil notes on some pages. Dust jacket has chips and tears along top and bottom edges. Dust jacket slightly faded at spine and price clipped.

This hardcover book of 160 pages from 1974, contains 90 painted species- 29 in color- and 67 line drawings of the birds of the Galapagos Islands. Here on the Equator are found penguins, albatrosses and red-ballooned frigate birds. Of particular importance are the endemic flightless Cormorant and the Galapagos Penguin. The landbirds include the tool-using woodpecker and Mangrove Finches, the Galapagos Hawk and the classic examples of beak adaptation among the finches and mockingbirds which impressed Darwin on his epic voyage of 1835.