I am looking for document or book who describe the identification of birds bones (especially by humerus). Do you know some guide?
Brown R, Ferguson J, Lawrence M, Leeds D 1987 -Tracks and Signs of the Birds of Britain and Europe- Ed. C. Helm, London: 1-232 pp.
Chaline J, Baudvin H, Jammot D, Saint Girons M C 1974. Les proies des rapaces. Ed. Doin, Paris: 1-142.
Moreno E 1985. Clave osteologica para la identificacion de los passeriformes ibericos.I. Ardeola 32(1-2): 295-377.
Moreno E 1986. Clave osteologica para la identificacion de los passeriformes ibericos.II. Ardeola 33(1-2): 69-129.
but perhaps you already know these titles? good job
Andrea Minganti
Thank you for tips, I know some from these books. However I try to obtain some of this books.
Best wishes,
Vlado
Dear Vladimír,
some other papers for bird identification by bones:
Jenő (Eugen) Kessler, 2016. Picidae in the European fossil, subfossil and recent bird faunas and their osteological characteristics. Ornis Hungarica. 24(1) 96–114,, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2016-0006
Jenő (Eugen) Kessler 2015. Osteological guide of songbirds from Central Europe. – Ornis Hungarica 23(2): 62–155. DOI: 10.1515/orhu-2015-0016
Dear Sandor, many thanks for next references! Great to have a help from other experts.
Hi.
I can confirm that the series of papers published by Eulalia Moreno on identification of Iberian passerines by bones is very good. Apart from the two titles cited by Andrea Minganti there is a third and last paper on the Muscicapidae, published like the others in the journal ARDEOLA. There also some other papers on the subject, centred on the identification of shorebirds and ducks by the skull, which I attach in this message. They are really good and useful.
Best regards, and good work!
Many thanks for information. I am happy that identification guides were published in many countries.
Ujhelyi P. 1992. Identyfication of the Fringillidae of Europe on the basis of craniometric characteristics. Aquila 99: 99-110
I see that there is relative many papers about this topic. I am happy for your help.
Dear Vladimir,
Maybe you can find interesting this publication about osteological identification of raptors.
Best,
Jose
Hi again.
I can recommend also this excellent website, centred in seabirds:
http://www.shearwater.nl/?file=kop1.php
There are very good photos of skulls of many species around the world, and also morphometric data about them, organized by taxonomic group.
Best regards.
There are some pubblications about passerine skulls and very few things about postcranial of Passerines. For other groups there are something, but never a single good book for many groups. If you are interested in more info, write me at [email protected]
Thank you very much, also I obtained info about prepared guide to identification of bird bones (passeriformes) from slovak expert on the owl diet. I downloaded some books in pdf from the links published here. Thank you for interest.
I have published certain papers on the sternum of birds from india. Available on research gate
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