Birds of Belize

Corrie Herring Hooks Series

by H. Lee Jones

Central America is a wonderful birding area, supporting a rich and diverse avifauna. Belize is one of its more accessible and tourist-friendly countries, beginning to rival Costa Rica as the most popular Central American birding destination of all. The colour distribution maps indicate the range of breeding and visiting species. This is the first guide ever published to the birds of Belize, and will be a vital aid to all those birdwatching in this spectacular country.

Genres: Birds, Nature, Field Guides, Biology, Reference

Paperback

First published December 15, 2003

Reviews

[James Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great reference guide! Definitely not a field guide ... but a great book.

[Steve H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful for the trip to Belize, but the copies our friends had were more useful. They physically took the book apart and rebound it in two sections, one with the plates and one with the lengthy verbiage. So, they had a nice field guide of about 50 pages that weighed a few ounces. We had the full thing that weighed a pound or more and had a lot of information that wasn't useful in the field. I'd suggest the author/publisher consider creating a smaller, more portable field guide.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Described online as THE book to take birding in Belize, we did. And it was useful, showing virtually every bird that we saw (over 120 species) while we were there. The book is large and heavy. It is basically broken into three parts, the visual plates (56 of them), the family & species accounts, and the range maps (which can be quite useful).

[Jules · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are going to Belize and going to Bird, this is seriously the only book to have. Easy to use, good pics.