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Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 3: Hoatzin to Auks

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The volume covers 30 families. These include several singular families with only one species (Hoatzin, Limpkin and Sunbittern of South America, Crab Plover from the Middle East, Ibisbill from Central Asia, the threatened Kagu of New Caledonia and Plains-wanderer of Australia), as well as forest species (the rare mesites of Madagascar and trumpeters of South America) and those of open landscapes (buttonquails, seriemas, bustards, thick-knees, seedsnipes). The main part of the volume, however, is made up of the families of waterbirds: rails, gallinules and coots (133 species), sandpipers, snipes and phalaropes (86 species), skuas (7 species), plovers (67 species), gulls (51 species), terns (44 species) and auks (22 species), among others.

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Product code: HBW0003

ISBN: 978-84-87334-20-7

SKU: HBW0003 Categories: , , ,

Weight

4.5 kg

Size

24 × 31 cm

Language

English

Format

Hardback

Pages

821

Publishing date

January 1996

Published by

Lynx Edicions

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

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Description

Foreword by Robert Bateman on art and nature.

 Order OPISTHOCOMIFORMES  
Family Opisthocomidae (Hoatzin) B.T. Thomas
 Order GRUIFORMES  
Family Mesithornithidae (Mesites) M.I. Evans, A.F.A. Hawkins & J.W. Duckworth
Family Turnicidae (Buttonquails) S.J.S. Debus
Family Gruidae (Cranes) G.W. Archibald & C.D. Meine
Family Aramidae (Limpkin) D.C. Bryan
Family Psophiidae (Trumpeters) P.T. Sherman
Family Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules and Coots) P.B. Taylor
Family Heliornithidae (Finfoots) B.C.R. Bertram
Family Rhynochetidae (Kagu) G.R. Hunt
Family Eurypygidae (Sunbittern) B.T. Thomas
Family Cariamidae (Seriemas) L.P. Gonzaga
Family Otididae (Bustards) N.J. Collar
 Order CHARADRIIFORMES  
Family Jacanidae (Jacanas) D.A. Jenni
Family Rostratulidae (Painted Snipes) G.M. Kirwan
Family Dromadidae (Crab Plover) M.R.W. Rands
Family Haematopodidae (Oystercatchers) P.A.R. Hockey
Family Ibidorhynchidae (Ibisbill) A.J. Knystautas
Family Recurvirostridae (Stilts and Avocets) R.J. Pierce
Family Burhinidae (Thick-knees) R.A. Hume
Family Glareolidae (Coursers and Pratincoles) G.L. Maclean
Family Charadriidae (Plovers) T. Piersma & P. Wiersma
Family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes) T. Piersma, J. van Gils & P. Wiersma
Family Pedionomidae (Plains-wanderer) D.J. Baker-Gabb
Family Thinocoridae (Seedsnipes) J. Fjeldså
Family Chionidae (Sheathbills) A.E. Burger
Family Stercorariidae (Skuas) R.W. Furness
Family Laridae (Gulls) J. Burger & M. Gochfeld
Family Sternidae (Terns) M. Gochfeld & J. Burger
Family Rhynchopidae (Skimmers) R.L. Zusi
Family Alcidae (Auks) D.N. Nettleship
  • 60 colour plates of birds
  • 384 colour photographs
  • 577 distribution maps
  • more than 8000 bibliographical references

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