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These treasures are the spectacular birds-of-paradise, native only to the remote New Guinea region but known the world around for their brilliant colors, otherworldly plumes, and elaborate courtship dances. “We turned our passion for science, photography, and media documentation into a comprehensive vision to share an unparalleled treasure of Earth’s biodiversity with the world,” write biologists and explorers Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes. Thirty-nine unique species of birds-of-paradise, all photographed in the wild for the first time in history.

Jared Diamond, ornithologist and author of Guns, Germs, and SteelĮight years.

The birds’ behavior, richly described in the text, is as remarkable as their appearance. These are the most beautiful photographs of the world’s most beautiful birds. "You’ll ​initially find it hard to believe that these pictures are real-but they are. Tim Laman - Edwin Scholes - Birds ​of Paradise This book is dedicated to the memory of Henk van Mastrigt (1946-2015) who passed away in August 2015 as he was beginning the work of translating the book. Many species included have never been depicted in colour before. The guide contains nearly 250 colour drawings and over 300 line drawings by Albert Orr and 36 colour photographs taken in the field mostly by Stephen Richards.

As well as introducing students and researchers to the beauty of dragonflies on their island, the guide provides a basis to study them and use them in biodiversity studies supporting the conservation of freshwater habitats.

Over 400 copies will be donated to universities throughout New Guinea. It will doubtless stimulate people to explore the streams and standing waters of New Guinea and to appreciate the wonderful diversity of dragonflies and damselflies to be found there. With it the reader can identify the approximately 175 species presently known from New Guinea, its satellite islands and the Bismark Archipelago. This ​book is a companion to the ‘Field Guide to the damselflies of New Guinea’ published in 2013 by the same authors and covers the ‘true’ dragonflies, or Anisoptera. Albert Orr - Vincent Kalkman - Field ​Guide to the dragonflies of New Guinea