TY - BOOK AU - Sick,Helmut ED - International Council for Bird Preservation. ED - Companhia Vale do Rio Doce TI - Birds in Brazil: a natural history SN - 0691085692 U1 - 598.0981 PY - 1993/// CY - Princeton, N.J. (EE.UU.) : PB - Princeton University Press KW - Aves KW - Taxonomía KW - Brasil KW - Ornitología KW - Conservación N1 - Traducción de: Ornitologia brasileira; Incluye referencias bibliográficas: páginas 643-649 e índices; Foreword (to the Brazilian edition); Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leao --; A Discrete Wise Man; Carlos Drummond de Andrade --; Expressions of Appreciation --; Ch. 1; The Country and Its Birds; 1.1; Morphoclimatic Domains; 1.2; Terrain Types and Their Avifauna; 1.3; Principal Habitats of Brazilian Birds --; Ch. 2; A Short History of Ornithology in Brazil, from The Sixteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century --; Ch. 3; Conservation in Brazil; 3.1; History of Conservation in Brazil; 3.2; Conservation Units; 3.3; The Minimal Critical Size of Ecosystems Projects; 3.4; Conservation Problems, Especially in Amazonia; 3.5; Atlantic Forest and Calcareous Forest; 3.6; Reforestation, Faunal Dependence and Environmental Preservation; 3.7; Pollution: Birds as Bioindicators; 3.8; Illegal Trade in Birds: New Perspectives; 3.9; New Orientation --; Ch. 4; Biogeography and Speciation; Jurgen Haffer --; Ch. 5; The Birds; 5.1; Birds of the Neotropics; 5.2; Fossil Birds; Herculano Alvarenga; 5.3; Categories of Brazilian Birds; 5.4; Population Analyses and Biodiversity; 5.5; Sources; Illustrated Guide to the Orders and Families of Brazilian Birds --; Ch. 6; Family and Species Accounts ER -