Article number: 101176001
Volume 4 - Sandgrouse to Cuckoos.
Presents four orders and offers fantastic, detailed information on the Sandgrouse, Pigeons and Doves, Lories and Parrots, Cockatoos, Turacos, Cuckoos and Coucals & Couas. Includes over 7 000 bibliographical references and a percentage of the books income is given to Birdlife International for their conservation efforts. The foreword in the book moreover discusses species concepts and limits in ornithology.
Order 1: Pterocliformes, family Pteroclidae – Sandgrouse. Order 2: Columbiformes, family Columbidae, Pigeons and Doves. Order 3: Psittaciformes, family Cacatuidae & Psittacidae (Cockatoos & Parrots). Order 4: Cuculiformes, family Cuculidae (Cuckoos).
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 of the HBW series and the most essential information.
Format: Hardcover
Authors: Jordi Sagatal, Andrew Elliott, Joseph del Hoyo
Pages: 680
Dimensions: 250x310x50 mm
Weight: 3 810 g
Publication: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 848733 4229
Language: English