South America has thousands of species, including scarlet ibis, Andean condor, harpy eagle, sunbittern, macaw, toucan, jacamar, antbird, and cotinga. These books describe locations, habitats, environmental concerns, plus information to help plan a birding tour of South America.
by Nigel Wheatley - Customize your travels to visit some of the prime birdwatching areas such as Galapagos and Falkland Islands, the Netherland Antilles, and Antarctica, and plus birdlists, maps and drawings.
by Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, Miguel Lentino - An Annotated Checklist of the Species & Subspecies of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname & French Guiana
Among birds alone, over 3,100 species are either resident or migrant. Birds are some of South America's treasures and also one of its most endangered resources. Hence the need for a descriptive record of South American birds that will serve both professional and amateur bird students and encourage conservation of these magnificent species.
by Martin R. de la Pena, Maurice Rumboll, Gustavo Carrizo (Illustrator), Aldo A. Chiappe (Illustrator), Jorge R. Mata (Illustrator) - Illustrates and describes all the known species--more than 1,000 of them--in a vast swath of this underexplored birder's paradise, from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Uruguay to parts of Antarctica.
by Jon Fjeldsa - A Manual to the Birds of the Temperate Zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America.
by Brian Harrington, Charles Flowers - A Natural History Account of a Small Bird's Annual Migration from the Arctic Circle to the Tip of South America and Back.
by David Alderton, Peter Barrett - The Ultimate Guide to the Birds of the U.S.A., Canada, Central and South America
by Robert S. Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield - 816 pages makes this a bit large to take into the field, but it's an excellent primer.
