Cracidae (Chachalacas, Guans And Curassows). Groups covered in this volume are as follows: Bock on the organization of information in HBW. Volume 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl Threskiornithidae (Ibises And Spoonbills). Procellariidae (Petrels And Shearwaters). Unlike subsequent volumes, it does not have an introductory essay instead, it has a 38 page overview by Eduardo de Juana of the biology of birds and a foreword welcoming the HBW project, by Christoph Imboden. 1.17 Special Volume: New Species and Global IndexĪ list of volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World produced to date is as follows:. 
1.16 Volume 16: Cardinals to New World Blackbirds.1.15 Volume 15: Weavers to New World Warblers.
1.14 Volume 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. 1.13 Volume 13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. 1.12 Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. 1.11 Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. 1.10 Volume 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. 1.9 Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails. 
1.5 Volume 5: Barn-Owls to Hummingbirds. 1.2 Volume 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl. It is a non-profit endeavour fuelled by material from more than one hundred contributors from around the world. subspecies, plumages, feeding, breeding, etc.) for every species. It is a free-access, on-line audiovisual library of the world's birds with the aim of posting videos, photos and sound recordings showing a variety of biological aspects (e.g. Individual volumes are large, 32 cm by 25 cm, and weighing between 4-4.6 kg it has been commented in a review that " fork-lift truck book" would be a better title.Īs a complement to the Handbook of the Birds of the World and with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna, in 2002 Lynx Edicions started the Internet Bird Collection (IBC). The seventh volume, as well as being named Bird Book of the Year by Birdwatch and British Birds, also received the distinction of Best Bird Reference Book in the 2002 WorldTwitch Book Awards This same distinction was also awarded to Volume 8 a year later in 2003. The first volume was selected as Bird Book of the Year by the magazines Birdwatch and British Birds, and the fifth volume was recognised as Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine, the American Library Association magazine. #Handbook of the birds of the world volume 11 series
Since the first volume appeared in 1992, the series has received various international awards. Douglas Pratt) from more than 40 countries have contributed to the project up to now, as well as 834 photographers from all over the world. More than 200 renowned specialists and 35 illustrators (including Toni Llobet, Hilary Burn and H. In addition, all volumes except the first and second contain an essay on a particular ornithological theme. Material in each volume is grouped first by family, with an introductory article on each family this is followed by individual species accounts (taxonomy, subspecies and distribution, descriptive notes, habitat, food and feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation, bibliography). This has not been done before for any other group in the animal kingdom. For the first time an animal class will have all the species illustrated and treated in detail in a single work. The series is edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal and David A Christie.Īll 16 volumes have been published. It is the first handbook to cover every known living species of bird. The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions.
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