The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Author: Fiona A. Reid Twan Leenders Jim Zook Robert Dean | Language: English | ISBN:
0801476100 | Format: EPUB
The Wildlife of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Description
This full-color field guide is an indispensable companion to the most popular neotropical ecotourism destination: Costa Rica. Featuring all the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods that one is likely to see on a trip to the rainforest (as well as those secretive creatures such as the jaguar that are difficult to glimpse), The Wildlife of Costa Rica is the guide to have when encountering trogons, tapirs, and tarantulas.
In addition to providing details for identifying animals along with interesting facts about their natural history, this guide offers tips for seeing them in the wild. Costa Rica, a peaceful nation with many and diverse animal species, is one of the best places in the world for wildlife watching and nature study. It has an excellent system of national parks and reserves, a wide choice of ecolodges, and many professionally trained tourist guides. It is possible to leave the capital city of San José and, just a few hours later, visit a high-elevation cloud forest, dense rainforest, savanna-like plain, or coastal habitat, each with a unique collection of animal species.
This new lightweight field guide provides nature enthusiasts visiting Costa Rica with the best introduction to the country's amazing diversity of wildlife. It is the first general field guide to Costa Rica to combine the most sought-after features:
•treatment of all major phyla in the country;
•coverage of the animals most likely and most desirable to be seen;
•more than 600 detailed illustrations integrated with the text (the preferred method of animal identification in the wild);
•full species accounts including ID points, range and habitat, size, and behaviors;
•a wealth of natural history information, including more than 20 photographic natural history features; and
•tips for seeing animals.
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates; 1 edition (April 22, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801476100
- ISBN-13: 978-0801476105
- Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
We chose this book as a single volume to take with us on a month long trip to Costa Rica. The drawings were accurate and helped us identify a lot of wildlife, however we often saw birds and mammals that were not listed in the book. It covered the most common wildlife from mammals to insects and would be a great guide for a short trip to Costa Rica. However, if you are planning an extended stay or planning on spending a lot of time looking for wildlife, I would suggest investing in individual books for different wildlife types: mammals, birds and reptiles, insects and butterflies, and even one for plants. We wished we had the extra information at our fingertips despite the extra weight and bulk. The overall format was great, we just wished for a more comprehensive guide.
By Debbie Swartzel
Had most of the birds and animals that we encountered on our trip and lots of useful information. True, many other animals were not included in this guide, but this was not supposed to be a comprehensive guide anyway. They also make different versions including one specifically for birds, mammals and plants. We also encountered a tour guide who said he knew the author and the author apparently lives in Costa Rica and gives amazing talks. That just made this book all the more respectable in my eyes!
By R. Choi
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