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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.

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Product code: HBW0011

ISBN: 978-84-96553-06-4

SKU: HBW0011 Categories: , , ,

Weight

4.23 kg

Size

24 × 31 cm

Language

English

Format

Hardback

Pages

798

Publishing date

September 2006

Published by

Lynx Edicions

Family Index of the Handbook of the Birds of the World series

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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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