Handbook of the Birds of the WorldVolume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails
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This is the second volume of the Passeriformes, with 9 families which include the last of the suboscines (cotingas, manakins, tyrant-flycatchers), the first of the oscines (larks, swallows and martins, pipits and wagtails), and between them the three from Australasia (New Zealand wrens, scrub-birds, lyrebirds), which are considered in a sense transitional.
Product code: HBW0009
ISBN: 978-84-87334-69-6
SKU: HBW0009 Categories: Birds, Encyclopedias, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Last Chance Tags: Australia, New ZealandWeight
4.75 kg
Size
24 × 31 cm
Language
English
Format
Hardback
Pages
863
Publishing date
September 2004
Published by
Lynx Edicions
Description
More than half of the volume is devoted to species of North America and the Neotropic, including the family of the tyrant-flycatchers, which with 429 species is the most numerous in the encyclopaedia. But the book will be of interest to ornithologists from around the world, as it ranges from localized, threatened species like Australia’s Noisy Scrub-bird and the Liben Lark of Ethiopia, to others more widely distributed, such as the Eurasian Skylark, and other well-known birds such as the cosmopolite Barn Swallow.
The Foreword is by Richard C. Banks, who traces the history and analyses the application of ornithological nomenclature.
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Cotingidae (Cotingas) | David Snow, Michael Brooke & Bruno Walther | |
| Family Pipridae (Manakins) | David Snow | |
| Family Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers) | John Fitzpatrick, John Bates, Kimberly Bostwick, Isabel Caballero, Benjamin Clock, Andrew Farnsworth, Peter Hosner, Leo Joseph, Gary Langham, Daniel Lebbin, Jason Mobley, Mark Robbins, Edwin Scholes, José Tello, Bruno Walther & Kevin Zimmer | |
| Family Acanthisittidae (New Zealand Wrens) | Brian Gill | |
| Family Atrichornithidae (Scrub-birds) | Alan Danks | |
| Family Menuridae (Lyrebirds) | Alan Lill | |
| Family Alaudidae (Larks) | Eduardo de Juana, Francisco Suárez, Peter Ryan, Per Alström & Paul Donald | |
| Family Hirundinidae (Swallows and Martins) | Angela Turner | |
| Family Motacillidae (Pipits and Wagtails) | Stephanie Tyler |
- 78 colour plates
- 440 photographs
- 809 distribution maps
- c. 6000 bibliographical references
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