Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 2
New World Vultures to Guineafowl
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Product details
- ID:HBW0002
- ISBN-10: 84-87334-15-6
- ISBN-13: 978-84-87334-15-3
- Language: English
- Format: 31 x 24 cm, Hardback
- Pages: 638
- Publication date: 1994
- 60 colour plates of birds
- 302 colour photographs
- 590 distribution maps
- more than 7000 bibliographical references
Published by Lynx Edicions
Foreword by Walter J. Bock on the organization of information in the HBW.
| Order FALCONIFORMES | ||
| Family Cathartidae (New World Vultures) | D.C. Houston | |
| Family Pandionidae (Osprey) | A.F. Poole | |
| Family Accipitridae (Hawks and Eagles) | J.M. Thiollay | |
| Family Sagittariidae (Secretarybird) | A.C. Kemp | |
| Family Falconidae (Falcons and Caracaras) | C.M. White, P.D. Olsen & L.F. Kiff | |
| Order GALLIFORMES | ||
| Family Megapodiidae (Megapodes) | A. Elliott | |
| Family Cracidae (Chachalacas, Guans and Curassows) | J. del Hoyo | |
| Family Meleagrididae (Turkeys) | W.F. Porter | |
| Family Tetraonidae (Grouse) | E. de Juana | |
| Family Odontophoridae (New World Quails) | J.P. Carroll | |
| Family Phasianidae (Pheasants and Partridges) | P.J.K. McGowan | |
| Family Numididae (Guineafowl) | I. Martínez |