Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows
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This volume covers 17 families and 486 species, mostly distributed in sub-Saharan Africa (bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, oxpeckers), Madagascar (vangas) and Australasia (New Zealand wattlebirds, stitchbirds, mudlarks, Australian mudnesters, woodswallows, butcherbirds, bowerbirds, birds-of-paradise). Also included here is the Bristlehead, endemic to Borneo, and other families with wider distributions in the Old World (drongos, starlings, Old World sparrows) or practically distributed worldwide (crows).
Product code: HBW0014
ISBN: 978-84-96553-50-7
SKU: HBW0014 Categories: Birds, Encyclopedias, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Last Chance Tag: Birds of ParadiseWeight
4.62 kg
Size
24 × 31 cm
Language
English
Format
Hardback
Pages
893
Publishing date
October 2009
Published by
Lynx Edicions
Family Index of the Handbook of the Birds of the World series
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Description
Foreword on birding past, present and future – a global view, by Stephen Moss
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes) | Hilary Fry | |
| Family Prionopidae (Helmet-shrikes) | David Allan | |
| Family Vangidae (Vangas) | Satoshi Yamagishi & Masahiko Nakamura | |
| Family Dicruridae (Drongos) | Gérard Rocamora & Dosithée Yeatman-Berthelot | |
| Family Callaeidae (New Zealand Wattlebirds) | Paul Scofield | |
| Family Notiomystidae (Stitchbird) | Peter Higgins & Les Christidis | |
| Family Grallinidae (Mudlarks) | Susan & Alan Tingay | |
| Family Struthideidae (Australian Mudnesters) | Ian Rowley & Eleanor Russell | |
| Family Artamidae (Woodswallows) | Ian Rowley & Eleanor Russell | |
| Family Cracticidae (Butcherbirds) | Eleanor Russell & Ian Rowley | |
| Family Pityriaseidae (Bristlehead) | Fred Sheldon & Rob Moyle | |
| Family Ptilonorhynchidae (Bowerbirds) | Clifford & Dawn Frith | |
| Family Paradisaeidae (Birds-of-paradise) | Clifford & Dawn Frith | |
| Family Corvidae (Crows) | Luiz dos Anjos, Stephen Debus, Steve Madge & John Marzluff | |
| Family Buphagidae (Oxpeckers) | Adrian Craig | |
| Family Sturnidae (Starlings) | Adrian Craig & Chris Feare | |
| Family Passeridae (Old World Sparrows) | Denis Summers-Smith |
- 51 colour plates of birds
- 657 colour photographs
- 485 distribution maps
- more than 6000 bibliographical reference
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