{"id":24554,"date":"2020-09-25T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lynxeds.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=24554"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T12:27:47","slug":"birds-and-mammals-of-the-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/product\/birds-and-mammals-of-the-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds and Mammals of the Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The most complete and updated field guide to the birds and mammals of the Galapagos.<\/h4>\n<p>The Galapagos archipelago is one of the most famous destinations on Earth for lovers of natural history.\u00a0Straddling the equator in the Pacific Ocean c. 1000 km west of Ecuador lies \u2018the world\u2019s natural laboratory\u2019 with its large radiations of mockingbirds and Darwin\u2019s finches. These remote islands, colonized by diverse and fearless wildlife, have become a magnet for birders and general naturalists alike. With 33 endemic bird species plus 12 endemic subspecies, and six endemic mammals, the Galapagos captivates all who visit.<\/p>\n<p>This comprehensive field guide covers all of the birds and mammals known to occur, providing the latest insights on field identification and taxonomy for challenging groups such as pelagic birds, Darwin\u2019s finches, and cetaceans. The Galapagos is also known for its vagrants, which too are covered in detail, including several new records not published previously.\u00a0A separate section is dedicated to hypothetical and potential species to further promote exploration of these unique islands.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taxonomy follows the HBW and BirdLife International<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/product\/hbw-and-birdlife-international-illustrated-checklist-of-the-birds-of-the-world-set-of-two-volumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World<\/em><\/a> and the<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/product\/illustrated-checklist-of-the-mammals-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Detailed texts covering status, habitat and behaviour, age, sex and geographical variation, and confusion species, as well as voice for birds.<\/li>\n<li>More than 660 illustrations covering all species and distinctive subspecies, males and females, birds in flight, juveniles and non-breeding plumages, where appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>More than 110 full-colour range maps for all species except cetaceans and vagrant birds and mammals.<\/li>\n<li>For birds, well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.<\/li>\n<li>QR code for every bird species, linked to complementary audiovisual material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Galapagos archipelago is one of the most famous destinations on Earth for lovers of natural history. Straddling the equator in the Pacific Ocean c. 1000 km west of Ecuador lies \u2018the world\u2019s natural laboratory\u2019 with its large radiations of mockingbirds and Darwin\u2019s finches. These remote islands of volcanic origin have been colonized by a remarkable and diverse wildlife, many of the animals being quite fearless of man. With 33 endemic bird species plus 12 endemic subspecies, and six endemic mammals, the islands are unsurprisingly popular with birders and general naturalists alike.<\/p>\n<p>This comprehensive field guide covers all of the birds and mammals known to occur, providing the latest insights on field identification and taxonomy for challenging groups such as pelagic birds, Darwin\u2019s finches, and cetaceans. The Galapagos is also known for its vagrants, which too are covered in detail, including several new records not published previously. Many hypothetical and potential species have been included in a separate section, to further promote exploration of these unique islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":65523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[16,208,63,19,57],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24554","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-birds","7":"product_cat-field-guides","8":"product_cat-lynx-and-birdlife-international-field-guides-collection","9":"product_cat-mammals","10":"product_cat-neotropical","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"product-type-variable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/24554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=24554"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lynxnaturebooks.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=24554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}