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Encyclopedia—birdBibliographyAmong the periodicals devoted to the study of bird life are the Auk, the Condor, and the Wilson Bulletin. Books on birds include the many guides by R. T. Peterson; the life histories of North American birds in F. Gill and A. Poole, ed., The Birds of North America (1992–2003); R. M. De Schauensee, A Guide to the Birds of South America (1970); A. Rutgers and K. A. Norris, ed., Encyclopaedia of Aviculture (Vol. I, 1971, and Vol. II, 1972); U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife, Birds in Our Lives (1970); J. Van Tyne and A. J. Berger, Fundamentals of Ornithology (1971); S. Cramp, ed., Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa (5 vol., 1977–88); M. Walters, Birds of the World (1980); B. King et al., The Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia (1988); J. Farrand, Jr., Eastern Birds (1988) and Western Birds (1988); S. Chatterjee, The Rise of Birds (1997); P. Shipman, Taking Wing (1998); D. Attenborough, The Life of Birds (1998); D. A. Sibley, The Sibley Guide to Birds (2000). Sections in this article: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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