Bibliography

Among the periodicals devoted to the study of bird life are the Auk, the Condor, and the Wilson Bulletin. Books on birds include the many guides by R. T. Peterson; the life histories of North American birds in F. Gill and A. Poole, ed., The Birds of North America (1992–2003); R. M. De Schauensee, A Guide to the Birds of South America (1970); A. Rutgers and K. A. Norris, ed., Encyclopaedia of Aviculture (Vol. I, 1971, and Vol. II, 1972); U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife, Birds in Our Lives (1970); J. Van Tyne and A. J. Berger, Fundamentals of Ornithology (1971); S. Cramp, ed., Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa (5 vol., 1977–88); M. Walters, Birds of the World (1980); B. King et al., The Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia (1988); J. Farrand, Jr., Eastern Birds (1988) and Western Birds (1988); S. Chatterjee, The Rise of Birds (1997); P. Shipman, Taking Wing (1998); D. Attenborough, The Life of Birds (1998); D. A. Sibley, The Sibley Guide to Birds (2000).

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