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Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 6: Mousebirds to Hornbills

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12 families are covered. We journey to the Antilles to join the diminutive and charming todies, to the Neotropical realm with the elegant motmots, to Madagascar with the threatened ground-rollers and the singular cuckoo-rollers, to sub-Saharan Africa with its gregarious mousebirds and woodhoopoes, to the Old World with its great variety of bee-eaters, rollers and hornbills, and to all the continents with the colourful trogons and kingfishers.

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Product code: HBW0006

ISBN: 978-84-87334-30-6

SKU: HBW0006 Categories: , , ,

Weight

3.7 kg

Size

24 × 31 cm

Language

English

Format

Hardback

Pages

589

Publishing date

January 2001

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

The photographs and illustrations do full justice to the extremely photogenic birds covered in the volume, such as the Quetzal, the Hoopoe and the Rhinoceros Hornbill. There are sequences of photographs of kingfishers hunting underwater, and images of the Southern Ground-hornbill hunting.

Foreword on avian bioacoustics by Luis Baptista & Don Kroodsma

 Order COLIIFORMES  
Family Coliidae (Mousebirds) E. de Juana
 Order TROGONIFORMES  
Family Trogonidae (Trogons) N. J. Collar
 Order CORACIIFORMES  
Family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) P. Woodall
Family Todidae (Todies) A. K. Kepler
Family Momotidae (Motmots) D. Snow
Family Meropidae (Bee-eaters) C. H. Fry
Family Coraciidae (Rollers) C. H. Fry
Family Brachypteraciidae (Ground-rollers) O. Langrand
Family Leptosomidae (Cuckoo-rollers) S. Goodman
Family Upupidae (Hoopoes) A. Kristin
Family Phoeniculidae (Wood-hoopoes) D. Ligon
Family Bucerotidae (Hornbills) A. C. Kemp
  • 45 colour plates
  • 385 photographs
  • 270 distribution maps
  • 11 figures and tables
  • c. 6000 bibliographical references

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