Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees
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An interesting Foreword by Kevin Caley on fossil birds which reveals, for example, that fossil remains exist of around 2,000 extinct species of the approximately 1,600,000(!) that have existed in the 150 million years there have been birds on Earth.
Product code: HBW0012
ISBN: 978-84-96553-42-2
SKU: HBW0012 Categories: Birds, Encyclopedias, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Last ChanceWeight
4.35 kg
Size
24 × 31 cm
Language
English
Format
Hardback
Pages
815
Publishing date
September 2007
Published by
Lynx Edicions
Family Index of the Handbook of the Birds of the World series
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Description
This volume covers 15 families, mostly Asiatic, Australian and African species, but also North American ones. It begins with the beautiful and mysterious picathartes of tropical Africa, and continues with the diverse and numerous group (309 species) of the babblers and the diminutive parrotbills of Eurasia. Then we make a long visit to south-east Asia and Australasia with the terrestrial Australasian babblers, logrunners and jewel-babblers, the trusting whistlers, the chubby Australasian robins, the long-tailed fairy-wrens, the threatened bristlebirds, the very vocal thornbills, the Australian chats in their open spaces, the hyperactive sittellas and the Australasian treecreepers. The volume closes with the tits & chickadees, a widely distributed family which includes some of the best-studied species in the world, such as the Great Tit.
Foreword on Fossil Birds by Kevin Caley.
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Picathartidae (Picathartes) | Hazell Thompson | |
| Family Timaliidae (Babblers) | Nigel Collar & Craig Robson | |
| Family Paradoxornithidae (Parrotbills) | Craig Robson | |
| Family Pomatostomidae (Australasian Babblers) | Jamie Matthew | |
| Family Orthonychidae (Logrunners) | Walter Boles | |
| Family Eupetidae (Jewel-babblers and allies) | Walter Boles | |
| Family Pachycephalidae (Whistlers) | Walter Boles | |
| Family Petroicidae (Australasian Robins) | Walter Boles | |
| Family Maluridae (Fairywrens) | Ian Rowley & Eleanor Russell | |
| Family Dasyornithidae (Bristlebirds) | Phil Gregory | |
| Family Acanthizidae (Thornbills) | Phil Gregory | |
| Family Epthianuridae (Australian Chats) | Jamie Matthew | |
| Family Neosittidae (Sittellas) | Richard Noske | |
| Family Climacteridae (Australasian Treecreepers) | Richard Noske | |
| Family Paridae (Tits and Chickadees) | Andrew Gosler & Peter Clement |
- 56 colour plates
- 436 photographs
- 638 distribution maps
- c. 4000 bibliographical references
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