Volume 14: Bush-Shrikes to Old World Sparrows
Exquisite work in the HBW-series! This book includes, for example, the fantastic Birds Of Paradise and all of the Bowerbirds. Presents nine bird families. Describes all species with detailed, updated facts written by many authors in collaboration. Illustrated with 657 photographs and 51 extraordinary colour plates. Also includes 485 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 on birding past, present and future – a global view.
Covers the following families: Malaconotidae (Bush-Shrikes), Prionopidae (Helmet-shrikes), Vangidae (Vangas), Dicruridae (Drongos), Callaeidae (New Zealand Wattlebirds), Notiomystidae (Stitchbird), Grallinidae (Mudlarks), Struthideidae (Australian Mudnesters), Artamidae (Woodswallows), Cracticidae (Butcherbirds), Pityriaseidae (Bristlehead), Ptilonorhynchidae (Bowerbirds), Paradisaeidae (Birds Of Paradise), Corvidae (Crows), Buphagidae (Oxpeckers), Sturnidae (Starlings), Passeridae (Old world Sparrows)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Author: Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, David Christie
Pages: 893
Dimensions: 310x250x50mm
Weight: ca 4000 g
Publication: 2009
Publisher: Lynx
ISBN: 978 849 6553507
Language: English