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Handbook of the Birds of the World – Volume 3
Hoatzin to Auks
140.00€
Edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal
34 experts from 13 countries contributed to this volume. The Foreword on art and nature is by Robert Bateman.
The volume covers 30 families. These include several singular families with only one species (Hoatzin, Limpkin and Sunbittern of South America, Crab Plover from the Middle East, Ibisbill from Central Asia, the threatened Kagu of New Caledonia and Plains-wanderer of Australia), as well as forest species (the rare mesites of Madagascar and trumpeters of South America) and those of open landscapes (buttonquails, seriemas, bustards, thick-knees, seedsnipes). The main part of the volume, however, is made up of the families of waterbirds: rails, gallinules and coots (133 species), sandpipers, snipes and phalaropes (86 species), skuas (7 species), plovers (67 species), gulls (51 species), terns (44 species) and auks (22 species), among others.
Foreword by Robert Bateman on art and nature.
| Order OPISTHOCOMIFORMES | ||
| Family Opisthocomidae (Hoatzin) | B.T. Thomas | |
| Order GRUIFORMES | ||
| Family Mesithornithidae (Mesites) | M.I. Evans, A.F.A. Hawkins & J.W. Duckworth | |
| Family Turnicidae (Buttonquails) | S.J.S. Debus | |
| Family Gruidae (Cranes) | G.W. Archibald & C.D. Meine | |
| Family Aramidae (Limpkin) | D.C. Bryan | |
| Family Psophiidae (Trumpeters) | P.T. Sherman | |
| Family Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules and Coots) | P.B. Taylor | |
| Family Heliornithidae (Finfoots) | B.C.R. Bertram | |
| Family Rhynochetidae (Kagu) | G.R. Hunt | |
| Family Eurypygidae (Sunbittern) | B.T. Thomas | |
| Family Cariamidae (Seriemas) | L.P. Gonzaga | |
| Family Otididae (Bustards) | N.J. Collar | |
| Order CHARADRIIFORMES | ||
| Family Jacanidae (Jacanas) | D.A. Jenni | |
| Family Rostratulidae (Painted Snipes) | G.M. Kirwan | |
| Family Dromadidae (Crab Plover) | M.R.W. Rands | |
| Family Haematopodidae (Oystercatchers) | P.A.R. Hockey | |
| Family Ibidorhynchidae (Ibisbill) | A.J. Knystautas | |
| Family Recurvirostridae (Stilts and Avocets) | R.J. Pierce | |
| Family Burhinidae (Thick-knees) | R.A. Hume | |
| Family Glareolidae (Coursers and Pratincoles) | G.L. Maclean | |
| Family Charadriidae (Plovers) | T. Piersma & P. Wiersma | |
| Family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes) | T. Piersma, J. van Gils & P. Wiersma | |
| Family Pedionomidae (Plains-wanderer) | D.J. Baker-Gabb | |
| Family Thinocoridae (Seedsnipes) | J. Fjeldså | |
| Family Chionidae (Sheathbills) | A.E. Burger | |
| Family Stercorariidae (Skuas) | R.W. Furness | |
| Family Laridae (Gulls) | J. Burger & M. Gochfeld | |
| Family Sternidae (Terns) | M. Gochfeld & J. Burger | |
| Family Rhynchopidae (Skimmers) | R.L. Zusi | |
| Family Alcidae (Auks) | D.N. Nettleship |
- 60 colour plates of birds
- 384 colour photographs
- 577 distribution maps
- more than 8000 bibliographical references
| Weight | 4.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 24 × 31 cm |
| Language | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Pages | 821 |
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| ISBN | 978-84-87334-20-7 |
| Published in | January 1996 |
| Published by | Lynx Edicions |
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