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1. #Handbook of the birds of the world volume 4 plus#
2. #Handbook of the birds of the world volume 4 series#

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#Handbook of the birds of the world volume 4 series#

The long series of color photographs and plates thus provide an unparalleled, eye-popping experience. Although this chapter connects only remotely with the contents of the remainder of the volume, in scope and completeness (483 references cited!) it is the most concise and comprehensive single treatment of bird vocalizations now in the literature.Īs a group, the species of birds covered in this volume are among the most strikingly colored in existence and, hence, extremely photogenic. Their 77 responses are cleverly distributed as marginal comments throughout the essay. Also in tribute to Baptista, Kroodsma asked vocal researchers globally to pose the question in avian bioacoustics they would most like answered. Kroodsma completed and revised the manuscript. After his unexpected death in June 2000, Donald E. Volume 6 is introduced with a masterly essay “Avian Bioacoustics,” a draft of which was written by Luis Baptista. When their expanded plans come to fruition, biologists, conservationists, and resource managers around the world will be rewarded with what is destined to become a matchless series of reference works on the higher vertebrates. Undaunted and without hesitation, members of the dedicated editorial team are willing to mortgage their collective futures for the monumental task ahead. There the editors also sought views on another tentative plan, to publish a parallel series of volumes entitled Handbook of the Mammals of the World. To determine the feasibility of that goal and in part to organize content, the editors surveyed readers' opinions via a brief questionnaire included as a leaflet with the mailing of volume 6. Future treatment of passerines, for example, will be expanded to occupy nine (!) additional volumes. Similar considerations prompted the editorial team to propose other major changes in the series. Although taxa from jacamars through woodpeckers were originally intended to be included in the present volume, for reasons of space, abundance of high-quality material, and the burgeoning literature, those groups are now destined to have a volume of their own, number 7. $185.00.-Covering the 12 families in the orders Coliiformes (Coliidae), Trogoniformes (Trogonidae), and Coraciiformes (Alcedinidae, Todidae, Momotidae, Meropidae, Coraciidae, Brachypteraciidae, Leptosomidae, Upupidae, Phoeniculidae, and Bucerotidae), this volume continues the exemplary standards of scholarship and elegant format established with the first five books of the series. 589 pp., 45 color plates, 385 photographs, 270 distribution maps. The series is complete in 16 volumes, but forthcoming volumes, including a Global Index with new species, and an Illustrated Checklist, will round out the reference.Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 6.-Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, and Jordi Sargatal, Eds. English, French, German, Spanish, and Latin names are given for each species. Each species is illustrated on a color plate, including all significant sexual and subspecific differences, and high quality color photographs depict many aspects of the birds' life and behavior.

#Handbook of the birds of the world volume 4 plus#

They include exhaustive family texts, plus detailed individual species accounts which include distribution maps. This is the first work ever to illustrate all the species of birds in the world, in addition to providing access to all the essential information about each one of them.Įach volume measures 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in (24 x 31 cm). This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated work has already become the definitive reference work to the bird families covered. Published in Barcelona in association with BirdLife International, the first fifteen volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) have met with universal acclaim.