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The perfect guide to the birds of Melanesia - New Caledonia, the Solomons, the Bismarcks and Vanuatu.

Guy Dutson is an ornithologist and tour-leader, and is the world's leading authority on the birds of the south-west Pacific, a region in which he has described or rediscovered several species. He has led expeditions to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, in the course of which he rediscovered the Superb Pitta on Manus. Expeditions to Indonesia and the Philippines led to the rediscovery of the Tanahjampea Monarch and the find for which he is perhaps best known, the Cebu Flowerpecker. In 2008 Dutson described a new species, the Vanikoro White-eye.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Melanesian Ornithology
Birdwatching in Melanesia
Conservation
Using the Plates and Species Texts
Island Groups of Melanesia

Checklist of the Birds of Melanesia
Colour Plates (1-86)
Species Accounts
Gazetteer
Index

About the Author

Guy Dutson is an ornithologist and conservationist, and is a world leading authority on the birds of the south-west Pacific, a region in which he has described or rediscovered several species. He has led fieldwork to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea since 1990, established the BirdLife Pacific programme in Fiji, and currently lives in subtropical Australia.