Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos
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The book covers the first 9 families of the order Passeriformes. The first three (broadbills, asities, pittas) are colourful forest birds whose distribution is Africa, south-east Asia, and in the case of the latter, also Oceania ; but the greater part of the volume deals with the species (623 in all) that occur in the Neotropic (ovenbirds, woodcreepers, typical antbirds, ground-antbirds, gnateaters and tapaculos).
Product code: HBW0008
ISBN: 978-84-87334-50-4
SKU: HBW0008 Categories: Birds, Encyclopedias, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Last ChanceWeight
4.55 kg
Size
24 × 31 cm
Language
English
Format
Hardback
Pages
845
Publishing date
September 2003
Published by
Lynx Edicions
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Description
The volume begins with a Foreword by Murray Bruce, on the history of bird classification.
The book covers the first 9 families of the order Passeriformes. The first three (broadbills, asities, pittas) are colourful forest birds whose distribution is Africa, south-east Asia, and in the case of the latter, also Oceania ; but the greater part of the volume deals with the species (623 in all) that occur in the Neotropic (ovenbirds, woodcreepers, typical antbirds, ground-antbirds, gnateaters and tapaculos).
Mostly these are forest and jungle birds, although the ovenbirds family, the most numerous of the volume (236 species) occurs in a great variety of environments, from the heights of the Andes to the Amazon forest and desert zones.
The volume is specially useful for those interested in tropical birds, who will find an ample store of information ranging from the complexity and diversity of the nests of ovenbirds, to the morphological variation of the bills of woodcreepers, the behaviour of antbirds, many of which pursue army ant swarms, and the origin of the name ‘tapaculos’.
Foreword on the history of bird classification by Murray Bruce.
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Eurylaimidae (Broadbills) | M. Bruce | |
| Family Philepittidae (Asities) | F. Hawkins | |
| Family Pittidae (Pittas) | J. Erritzoe | |
| Family Furnariidae (Ovenbirds) | V. Remsen | |
| Family Dendrocolaptidae (Woodcreepers) | C. Marantz, A. Aleixo, L. Bevier & M. Patten | |
| Family Thamnophilidae (Typical Antbirds) | K. Zimmer & M. Isler | |
| Family Formicariidae (Ground-antbirds) | N. Krabbe & T. Schulenberg | |
| Family Conopophagidae (Gnateaters) | B. Whitney | |
| Family Rhinocryptidae (Tapaculos) | N. Krabbe & T. Schulenberg |
- 81 colour plates
- 477 photographs
- 681 distribution maps
- c. 4000 bibliographical references
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