Volume 6: Mousebirds to Hornbills
Presents a total of 12 bird families - including the Bee-Eaters and Rollers - and describes all species with comprehensive, updated facts written by three authors in collaboration. Illustrated with 385 photographs and 45 fine, high-quality colour plates. Also includes 270 distribution maps for both bird species and families. A percentage of the books income is given to Birdlife International for their conservation efforts. The foreword in this volume is on the avian bioacoustics.
Covers the following families: Coliidae (Mousebirds), Trogonidae (Trogons), Alcedinidae (Kingfishers), Todidae (Todies), Momotidae (Motmots), Meropidae (Bee-eaters), Coraciidae (Rollers), Brachypteraciidae (Ground-rollers), Leptosomidae (Cuckoo-rollers), Upupidae (Hoopoes), Phoeniculidae (Wood-hoopoes), Bucerotidae (Hornbills).
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: 589
Dimensions: 310x250x50mm
Weight: ca 4000 g
Publication: 2001
Publisher: Lynx
ISBN: 8487 33430X
Language: English