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Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics

 Co-authored by Bruce Beehler ’74. Princeton University Press, March 2016. New Guinea supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Of the nearly 800 species of birds recorded from New Guinea, more than 350 are found nowhere else on Earth. Bruce Beehler and Thane Pratt provide the scientific foundation for the names, geographic distributions, and systematic arrangement of New Guinea’s bird fauna. All technical information is annotated and a geographic gazetteer and bibliography are included.