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Birds of Mexico: A Natural History of Fifty Extraordinary Species
Paperback
Series: World Bird Regions, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 12 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Discover the birds of the one country on Earth where two entire faunal worlds collide.
Mexico holds more bird species than the United States and Canada combined, a fact made possible by an accident of geography: it is the single country where the temperate Nearctic realm and the tropical Neotropics don't just border each other, they overlap, converge, and trade species across shared ground found nowhere else in the hemisphere.
Birds of Mexico, Book Three in the World Bird Regions series, follows that convergence through seven regions: the volcano-ringed valley holding the capital, the limestone Yucatán isolated behind water on three sides, the canyon country of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the borderland deserts of the north, a desert peninsula pressed against one of the most productive seas on the planet, the tangled endemism of Oaxaca, and the cloud forests of Chiapas, where the country hands off entirely into the tropics.
Fifty birds are profiled here, each given the room a field guide never allows: how it finds a mate, defends a territory, raises its young, and fits into the landscape it calls home.
Inside, you'll meet:
- The Horned Guan, a turkey-sized bird crowned with a bony red horn found on no other species on Earth
- The Resplendent Quetzal, whose feathers once traveled north as tribute to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan
- The Thick-billed Parrot, shot out of the Arizona skies a century ago and now surviving only in Mexico's last old-growth pine forests
- The Blue-footed Booby, whose famously vivid feet are a real, science-backed signal of health and diet
- Dozens of species found nowhere else on the planet, from a hummingbird confined to a single Oaxaca mountain range to a sparrow down to a few thousand birds in the wild
Perfect for:
- Travelers planning a trip who want real context before they go
- Birdwatchers and life listers preparing for a Mexico trip
- Armchair naturalists who enjoy narrative wildlife writing
- Ecotourism and conservation-minded readers
- Gift buyers shopping for a birder, traveler, or nature lover
- Teachers, students, and homeschool families studying ecology and biodiversity
Birds of Mexico is Book Three in the World Bird Regions series, following Birds of Canada and Birds of Costa Rica.
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