The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2021
2ND PLACE
“A book featuring and illustrating, quite literally, every bird in the world was deemed to be one of the most exciting titles on the shortlist, and the culmination of many decades of work by Lynx Edicions and Josep del Hoyo. With other, more-extensive incarnations of the same work available… the judges felt that this title represented more of a luxury product – to leaf through (and drool over) – rather than a reference work per se, but that did nothing to detract from the beauty and exceptional quality of All the Birds of the World. The judges agreed that the title offered something for everyone.”
British Birds, 115, p 100, February 2022
“Ce nouveau volume, d’une facture digne de la qualité à laquelle nous ont habitués les éditions Lynx, veut faire honneur à la gent ailée qui nous touche, en jetant des ponts entre le scientifique, le passionné et le profane. Il est non seulement une ouverture sur la diversité, mais surtout une fenêtre sur l’exhaustivité mise à disposition du plus grand nombre, par l’intermédiaire d’images, de pictogrammes et de l’interactivité du monde numérique, auquel l’ouvrage donne facilement accès. C’est un pari que seules les éditions Lynx pouvaient tenter et qui mérite d’être honoré, y compris par un public non anglophone.”
Bertrand Posse, Nos Oiseaux, No 544, Volume 68/2, p 84, June 2021
“The editor, artists, design and production teams, and publisher are to be applauded for producing a handsomely illustrated and well-organized compendium that distils key information on all of the birds of the world, with convenient links to an ever-growing repository of images, videos, and vocal recordings.”
Mark F. Reigner, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 96, pp 136-137
Steve Hunter, British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), February 2021
“The premise of All the birds of the world is ostensibly simple. Across sumptuous double-page spreads that are efficiently packed without feeling overcrowded, every bird species in the world (and more about that later) receives one or more stunning illustrations and a distribution map – so you know what it looks like and where it lives. But this book is so much more than that.
Diagnosably different subspecies (and more about that later too) are illustrated. And there is a mass of information crammed into very little space. In barely 25 cm2 typically allocated per species, enough detail is provided for the reader to glean that creature’s essence, and to whet the appetite to learn more.”
James Lowen, Neotropical Birding 28, pp 75-76
“I’m also having great fun browsing All the Birds of the World, published by Lynx last year. It’s a truly incredible book: more than 20,000 illustrations detailing every single one of the world’s 11,524 bird species. It’s an absolute joy to spend time with – but the appendix on every bird known to have gone extinct since the year 1500 is sobering. ”
Penny Sarchet, New Scientist. 20 April 2021
Birding Book Club: Best of 2020
American Birding Association (ABA) Podcast, 10 Desembre 2020
The Birder’s Library, 19 November 2020
“RECOMMENDATION: A must have for anyone with an interest in the World’s birds! The feature I like the most is the “ Taxonomic Circle” which compares the taxonomies of the four major World bird lists.”
Ian Paulsen, The BirdBooker Report, 10 December 2020
“All the Birds of the World is also a door stopper of a book with 967 pages and weighing 4.8 kg. It is yet another publishing and zoological milestone. The fact that the first print run sold out so quickly says it all. Which person interested in birds would not want this book? There is something wondrous about holding a book in ones hands and knowing that it has every single bird species in the world; 11,524 taxons, 20,865 illustrations and 11,558 distribution maps. For a book of its size and importance, it was priced attractively in its initial offer. All of this for Euro 65 is an outstanding offering.”
Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, 1 November 2020, Read the full review.
“This book is amazing. If you are interested in birds, or if you need a gift for someone who is, take a look at this volume. This 967-page book contains a series of excellent color illustrations of all of the 11,324 known bird species of the world. For each species, both sexes are illustrated, if they differ, and many races are included—20,865 illustrations in all.”
Dan Tallman, Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog, 8 December 2020
“Por primera vez en la historia de la cultura y la investigación naturalista, la espectacular diversidad de aves de este planeta vivo se reúne con todo detalle en un trabajo riguroso, amable y completísimo. Un único libro colosal que rebasa las expectativas de todos aquellos amantes de la naturaleza que tienen la cabeza llena de pájaros. Algo que ya ha sido calificado por los aficionados de «vicio pajarero de suprema calidad.”
Eduardo Viñuales, El Heraldo de Aragón, 21 January 2021
Per primera vegada pots contemplar tots els ocells del món il·lustrats en un únic i pràctic llibre. Una obra que fascinarà tant a naturalistes principiants com a ornitòlegs experts, a més de qualsevol persona interessada en l’espectacular diversitat dels ocells.
- Presenta tots els taxons acceptats com a espècie per cadascuna de les quatre principals llistes taxonòmiques: 11.524 espècies en total.
- Inclou 20.865 il·lustracions que cobreixen el dimorfisme sexual, variants i un gran nombre de les subespècies distintives.
- Presenta 11.558 mapes de distribució que inclouen el rang altitudinal on l’espècie hi és present.
- Indica les 3313 espècies conegudes que són endèmiques d’un sol país.
- Inclou l’estat de conservació de la UICN/BirdLife International.
- Presenta i compara el tractament taxonòmic seguit per cadascuna de les quatre principals llistes taxonòmiques mundials per a cadascuna de les espècies.
- S’expliquen les discrepàncies en la nomenclatura d’aquestes llistes taxonòmiques de referència.
- Inclou els noms comuns i científics de les espècies que s’utilitzen a l’eBird.
- Cada espècie va acompanyada d’un codi QR amb accés instantani a vídeos, fotos i gravacions de veus i cants.
- Inclou caselles per marcar els registres personals.
- Un apèndix mostra totes les espècies conegudes que s’han extingit des de l’any 1500.
- Inclou un atles mundial de 37 pàgines amb mapes de referència en color, amb tots els detalls d’interès per als observadors d’ocells.
- La forma més fàcil i amena de visualitzar tots els ocells del món.
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