Article number: 101162001
Volume 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers.
Present six bird families of the world with detailed, updated facts written by many authors in collaboration. Illustrated thoroughly with 317 photographs and 70 extraordinary colour plates. Also include 408 distribution maps for the birdspecies and families. A percentage of the books income is given to Birdlife International for their conservation efforts. The foreword in this volume is about extinct birds.
Covers the following families: Galbulidae -Jacamars, Bucconidae - Puffbirds , Capitonidae - Barbets, Ramphastidae - Toucans, Indicatoridae - Honeyguides, Picidae - Woodpeckers.
HBW is the most remarkable publishing project on birds ever conceived and executed, 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. In fact, it will be the first work ever to deal with each member of an entire Class of the Animal Kingdom. HBW volume 1 was published in 1992, and the final, 16th volume was presented at the end of 2011. This is however, not the end of the HBW project. In the 20 years that have passed since this project started, some new species have been discovered. A Special Volume covers and illustrates all these 57 (or more now) species, with texts, plates and distribution maps in typical HBW format. That volume was published in mid 2013.
Lynx has now published a checklist in association with Birdlife. See it in the right margin; HBW and Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. These two volumes include the original artwork, and the most essential facts of the HBW series.
Format: Hardcover
Author: Joseph del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal
Pages: 613
Dimensions: 250x310x50 mm
Weight: 4000 g
Publication: 2002
Publisher: Lynx
ISBN: 848 733 4377
Language: English