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| Crows and Jays: A Guide to the Crows, Jays and Magpies of the World (Helm Identification Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Steve Madge, Hilary Burn
Publisher: Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 398026
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0713652071
Dewey Decimal Number: 598
EAN: 9780713652079
ASIN: 0713652071
Publication Date: September 30, 1999
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All and Everything about corvids September 28, 2008
"Crows and Jays" by Steve Madge and Hilary Burn is a serious and succinct scientific reference work covering the entire crow family. All 122 species of crows, magpies and jays are included. There are 30 colour plates, showing all species and many subspecies. The colour plates also include range maps. The plate section is followed by text pages with species presentations. For obvious reasons, the presentations are rather short, but they nevertheless give a good overview of the habits, habitat and geographic variation of the various species. Provided, of course, that such information is at all available. Many tropical corvids are still little known, the most extreme being the Banggai Crow from the tiny island of Banggai in Indonesia, which is known only from two stuffed specimens in New York!
Another scientific reference work about corvids is Derek Goodwin's "Crows of the World". Goodwin's book has very few illustrations, but it contains more information about the habits of the European corvids. Thus, Goodwin's book nicely complements "Crows and Jays". Both books are worth buying, if you have a serious, scientific interest in these birds.
Hopefully, both books will be superseded next year, when Lynx Editions will finally publish a volume of their "Handbook of the Birds of the World" scheduled to include the crow family. I'm sure both Madge, Burn and Goodwin are already involved in that project...
;-)
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