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A Field Guide to the Birds of China
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A Field Guide to the Birds of China Paperback - 2000

by MacKinnon, John; Phillipps, Karen

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Oxford University Press, 2000-08-10. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No D/J as Published. 7x5x1.
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  • Title A Field Guide to the Birds of China
  • Author MacKinnon, John; Phillipps, Karen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 600
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Date 2000-08-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 600937
  • ISBN 9780198549406 / 0198549407
  • Weight 2.54 lbs (1.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.83 x 5.52 x 1.61 in (19.89 x 14.02 x 4.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects Birds - China
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99050044
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.095

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This is a worldwide family of ground-living birds with short round wings but often long tails.

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About the author

John MacKinnon is Professor of Biodiversity Information at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He is currently posted in the Philippines as head of a European Union project to set up an ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation. He is Chairman of a Special Biodiversity Working Group that advises the Chinese Government on biodiversity matters, and formerly spent eight years living in China and Hong Kong working on a number of conservation projects in China. Apart from many technical reports on China he has published two other books on the country - Wild China and A Photoguide to the Birds of China. Among several other books on natural history of Asia, he is also the senior author of A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali which remains the standard bird guide to the Greater Sunda Islands.

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