Toucans, Barbets, and Honeyguides: Ramphastidae, Capitonidae and IndicatoridaeThis book covers in unmatched detail the life history, relationships, biology, and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. These number 133 species, found in tropical regions around the world. The toucans are especially well-known because of their dramatic bills and their association with the Amazon rainforest. The authors have been working with these birds for over 20 years, and their knowledge and expertise in these groups is unrivalled. Much of the information in this book has never previously been published. The colour plates, painted by well-known US artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced. |
Contents
Movements drinking roosting display sociality and interspecific | 56 |
preliminaries to nesting | 69 |
Breeding and aspects of life cycle | 87 |
Honeyguides | 112 |
Genus Buccanodon | 171 |
Trachyphonus purpuratus | 174 |
Genus Lybius | 189 |
Genus Calorhamphus | 221 |
Lemonthroated Barbet Eubucco richardsoni | 307 |
Scarlethooded Barbet Eubucco tucinkae | 313 |
Ramphastidae toucans aracaris toucanets | 324 |
Genus Selenidera | 341 |
Indicatoridae honeyguides | 433 |
Genus Melignomon | 440 |
References | 484 |
Glossary | 513 |
Common terms and phrases
ADULT F Africa Aracari base belly bill birds Black-collared Barbets blue breast breeding behaviour brown brown-black calls Channel-billed Toucan chin Colombia colour crown culmen dark Description ADULT Displays and breeding duet dull duller ear coverts edges eggs excavated feeding Field characters flanks fledging flight feathers foraging forest fruiting trees gonadal gonadal data Greater Honeyguide green Green Tinkerbird grey Habitat immatures incubation insects juveniles Kenya lacking Legs and feet Lesser Honeyguides mainly malar mandible maxilla moult Myanmar nape nestlings notes occurs Orbital skin outer pair pale paler patch Piciformes Pied Barbet PLATE plumage Pogoniulus Ramphastos Range and status rear roosting rump Scaly-throated Honeyguide shafts Short and Horne singing song species Spot-flanked Barbet spots streaks subadults subspecies tail Tanzania tarsus territory throat Tinkerbird tips tomia Toucanet toucans Tropic undertail coverts uppertail White-headed Barbet wing woodpeckers yellow yellow-green Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird yellow-white young Zaire