Astonishingly comprehensive, covering the identification, status, and distribution of all 1,070 birds species known from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Northern Nicaragua, this definitive guide is beautifully illustrated with 71 color plates and 39 black-and-white drawings, showing 750 species, and including many plumages never before depicted.

Steve N. G. Howell and Sophie Webb are Research Associates at Point Reyes Bird Observatory, California.

• Introduction: Area covered


• 1: Geography and bird distribution


• 2: Climate and habitat


• 3: Migration


• 4: History of ornithology in Mexico


• 5: Conservation


• 6: Birding in Mexico and northern Central America


• 7: Using this book


• 8: Taxonomy


• 9: Molt and plumage


• 10: Outline of the species accounts


• 11: Family and Species Accounts


• Appendices on extinct species, hypothetical occurrence, birds of Pacific Islands and Caribbean Islands, and additional species of eastern Honduras


• Bibliography


• Index