Birds of Tropical America

<p><b>The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off.</b></p> <p>Why are tropical birds like parrots and quetzals so much more colorful than those in more temperate climates? How can a vulture soaring thousands of feet above the canopy spot a dead rodent no bigger than a mouse on the rainforest floor? What permits sparrow-sized antbirds to not only survive but to thrive among relentless hordes of army ants that devour every other living thing in their path?</p> <p>Steven Hilty has led birding tours to the American Tropics for decades. By providing answers to the hundreds of questions asked by participants of these expeditions Hilty has produced a natural history of the bird life of the New World Tropics that is at once practical accurate and as endlessly fascinating as the species whose lives it reveals.</p> <p><i>Birds of Tropical America</i> was published by Chapters Publishing in 1994 and went out of print in 1997. UT Press is pleased to reissue it with a new epilogue and updated references.</p>