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The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World | 
 enlarge | Author: James F. Clements
Creators: Jared Diamond, Anthony W. White, John W. Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $59.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 151470
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 843
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.8 x 2.1
ISBN: 0801445019
Dewey Decimal Number: 598
EAN: 9780801445019
ASIN: 0801445019
Publication Date: June 7, 2007
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Condition: Excellent hardcover in excellent dj. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. INV#JW125
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Book Description
Birds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as the focus of birders' passionate quests. Despite centuries of observation, each year brings the discovery and description of several entirely new avian species and hundreds of other taxonomic "splits" or "lumps" based on DNA data. In this arena of continual and increasing taxonomic change, The Clements Checklist presents the most up-to-date and most widely endorsed compendium of the more than 9800 species of birds recognized by the scientific and birding communities. This completely revised sixth edition is current as of 2005 and incorporates hundreds of updates since the last edition. In taxonomic sequence, it provides the scientific and English name of each species and a description of the worldwide range of each species and subspecies. The most established resource on the taxonomy and biogeography of birds for the world birding community, The Clements Checklist is the official world checklist of the American Birding Association (ABA) and is used as the authoritative reference in the birding competitions and listing activities of this preeminent North American organization for serious birders. Features of The Clements Checklist include * comprehensive indexes with all taxa listed by English and scientific names, the latter to subspecies level; * tables and maps showing the world distribution of total bird species and endemics by geographic area, which will be of special interest to conservationists; and * space to record the location and date of individual sightings, providing the user with a personalized ornithological journal.
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 a book for the laboratory, from a broad perspective December 27, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
As it was very hard to find a comprehensive book on birds for any price, I got this one for 38 bucks, no big money, but the book is clearly not a success. ...ror the ornithology students or the library in zoological university. That is as plain as it is.
 Fantastic reference book November 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book gave me all the info I needed on the various bird species I was researching. Current species and subspecies nomenclature, range of each subspecies, etc. Couldn't ask for a more precise and complete book.
fabulous book with small faults September 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I will divide in what I find good and not so good of this book .
Good:
the size ,with 28,5 & 22 cm it's a lot bigger than the Howard + Moore and Sibley + Monroe books , which leaves a lot of space to make your notes inside the book ,like I do ,
very good binding and of course the complete listing of all the bird species and subspecies .
Not so good :
the splitting into species goes in my opinion a little to far ,especially by the Australian species .
Bad :
some species of the checklist are also listed as subspecies by species from which they were split ,with a little proofreading this could have been avoided .
For the price amazon is asking ,this book is a must if you want a checklist of the birds of the world .
A big list, not much more July 4, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Clements is the bible of bird taxonomy, but this book is basically just a list of every species with sublists of each subspecies, and very basic information as to where that subspecies is located. I was disappointed that there is no summary of changes from this 6th edition from the prior edition, although I assume this information will eventually be available on-line somewhere. This is a book that lots of very serious birders know they want, and they should get it. But if you don't know exactly what this book is already and know that you want it, you probably don't.
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