Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers
Presents nine bird orders with magnificent, detailed information about each family and species. Illustrated thoroughly with photographs and 55 colour plates. Includes over 6 000 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 the ecological significance of bird populations.
This volume covers the following families: Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae), Wattle-eyes (Platysteiridae), Fantails (Rhipiduridae), Monarch-flycatchers (Monarchidae), Kinglets (Regulidae), Gnatcatchers (Polioptilidae), Cisticolas and allies (Cisticolidae), and Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)
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
Authors: David Christie, Andrew Elliott, Joseph del Hoyo
Pages: 799
Dimensions: 250x310x50 mm
Weight: ca 4000 g
Publication: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 849655 306X
Language: English