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