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Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl

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The book covers the orders Falconiformes (5 families) and Galliformes (7 families), and will be of special interest to those with a passion for raptors (Osprey, hawks, eagles, falcons, caracaras), but also to any lover of birds, as it includes other families from the Americas (New World vultures, chachalacas, guans & curassows , turkeys, New World quails), from Africa (Secretarybird, guineafowl), from Australasia (megapodes), and families with more extensive distributions (grouse, pheasants & partridges).

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Product code: HBW0002

ISBN: 978-84-87334-15-3

SKU: HBW0002 Categories: , , ,

Weight

3.92 kg

Size

24 × 31 cm

Language

English

Format

Hardback

Pages

638

Publishing date

January 1994

Published by

Lynx Edicions

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

Download and print these quick indexes of all the families covered in HBW.

Description

This volume, boosted by the spectacular reception given to Volume 1, benefits from the internationalization of the authors (19 experts from 16 countries), and the incorporation of prestigious illustrators who greatly contributed to the improvement and consolidation of the project.

It begins with a Foreword by Walter J. Bock on the taxonomic aspects of HBW; this is followed by an introduction explaining the organization of the information and what is new with respect to the previous volume.

The book covers the orders Falconiformes (5 families) and Galliformes (7 families), and will be of special interest to those with a passion for raptors (Osprey, hawks, eagles, falcons, caracaras), but also to any lover of birds, as it includes other families from the Americas (New World vultures, chachalacas, guans and curassows , turkeys, New World quails), from Africa (Secretarybird, guineafowl), from Australasia (megapodes), and families with more extensive distributions (grouse, pheasants and partridges).

Foreword by Walter J. Bock on the organization of information in the HBW.

 Order FALCONIFORMES  
Family Cathartidae (New World Vultures) D.C. Houston
Family Pandionidae (Osprey) A.F. Poole
Family Accipitridae (Hawks and Eagles) J.M. Thiollay
Family Sagittariidae (Secretarybird) A.C. Kemp
Family Falconidae (Falcons and Caracaras) C.M. White, P.D. Olsen & L.F. Kiff
 Order GALLIFORMES  
Family Megapodiidae (Megapodes) A. Elliott
Family Cracidae (Chachalacas, Guans and Curassows) J. del Hoyo
Family Meleagrididae (Turkeys) W.F. Porter
Family Tetraonidae (Grouse) E. de Juana
Family Odontophoridae (New World Quails) J.P. Carroll
Family Phasianidae (Pheasants and Partridges) P.J.K. McGowan
Family Numididae (Guineafowl) I. Martínez
  • 60 colour plates of birds
  • 302 colour photographs
  • 590 distribution maps
  • more than 7000 bibliographical references

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