For the first time ever, you can contemplate All the Birds of the World together in a single, easy-to-use volume with beautiful, high-quality illustrations and updated distribution maps for all the bird species of the world.

Mammals of South Asia covers a region of tremendously diverse habitats and richness of large mammalian species. Whether you are planning a trip to the area or simply want to quickly learn about the 540 species that occur in the zone, this is the book for you!

The new Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World exhaustively catalogues taxonomic changes, incorporating all recently published revisions, and integrates them into new, brief species accounts for every species. Accompanying each account is a scientific illustration in full color and a detailed distribution map.

Dream of the Sundaic region, which includes the world-renowned Taman Negara National Park, and imagine some of the most amazing lowland forest reserves in the world. Visualize the sheer variety of highland endemics at legendary hill station birding sites like Fraser’s Hill. Picture the Bornean endemics in Sabah and Sarawak, pheasants, frogmouths, trogons, pittas, thrushes…

This book reveals the remarkable history of how passerines diversified and dispersed across the entire world. It also presents and explains the new classification, which reflects the phylogenetic history. The new insights reveal that many of the old evolutionary lineages comprise only a few species that remained in their area of origin or underwent limited dispersal.

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Over 2,500 illustrations and 1,417 bird species, including 601 endemics!

We’ve saved the best for last! Volume 9 completes the HMW series with the bats, order Chiroptera.