Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers
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The volume covers 8 families, mostly from the Old World (Africa, Eurasia and Australasia, with the exception of the New World gnatcatchers and two species of kinglets from the Nearctic). Half of the volume is taken up by the Old World flycatchers and Old World warblers, which with 116 and 145 species respectively, are the most numerous families.
Product code: HBW0011
ISBN: 978-84-96553-06-4
SKU: HBW0011 Categories: Birds, Encyclopedias, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Last ChanceWeight
4.23 kg
Size
24 × 31 cm
Language
English
Format
Hardback
Pages
798
Publishing date
September 2006
Published by
Lynx Edicions
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Description
The volume covers 8 families, mostly from the Old World (Africa, Eurasia and Australasia, with the exception of the New World gnatcatchers and two species of kinglets from the Nearctic). Half of the volume is taken up by the Old World flycatchers and Old World warblers, which with 116 and 145 species respectively, are the most numerous families.
These families, like batises and wattle-eyes, fantails, monarch-flycatchers, kinglets and gnatcatchers are mostly made up of species from habitats with vegetation (forest, woodland, shrub areas, reedbeds). The species of cisticolas and allies present the greatest habitat variability and may also be found in arid zones.
The reader will find illustrations of the elegant paradise-flycatchers and admire the variety of cisticolas in a single plate, as well as appreciating the quality and interest of the photographs, such as that of the Large-billed Reed-warbler (Acrocephalus orinus), a fine example taken in Thailand in March 2006, and the first sighting of the species since its discovery in 1867.
Foreword on the ecological significance of bird populations by Cagan Sekercioglu with a Preface by Paul Ehrlich.
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers) | Barry Taylor & Peter Clement | |
| Family Platysteiridae (Batises & Wattle-eyes) | Michel Louette | |
| Family Rhipiduridae (Fantails) | Walter Boles | |
| Family Monarchidae (Monarch-flycatchers) | Brian Coates, Guy Dutson, Chris Filardi, Peter Clement, Phil Gregory & Kees Moeliker | |
| Family Regulidae (Kinglets & Firecrests) | Jochen Martens & Martin Päckert | |
| Family Polioptilidae (Gnatcatchers) | Jon Atwood & Susannah Lerman | |
| Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas & allies) | Peter Ryan, Richard Dean, Steve Madge & David Pearson | |
| Family Sylviidae (Old World Warblers) | Franz Bairlein, Per Alström, Raül Aymí, Peter Clement, Andrzej Dyrcz, Gabriel Gargallo, Frank Hawkins, Steve Madge, David Pearson & Lars Svensson |
- 55 colour plates
- 343 photographs
- 733 distribution maps
- c. 6000 bibliographical references
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