The world’s fifth-largest island nation comprises in excess of 7600 islands and islets, and is one of the most populous and ethnically diverse in all of Asia, with more than 180 native languages still spoken. To birders, however, the Philippines is famed for the country’s remarkable endemic avifauna. Of the 726 species or distinctive subspecies almost 300 occur nowhere else on Earth.

This illustrated checklist covers China, a region with a great habitat diversity which is especially rich in mammalian life and attracts numerous wildlife watchers. This book will equip you with an easy-to-use resource to quickly learn about the c. 600 species of mammals known to occur in the area.

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.

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.

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.

Listen to Josep del Hoyo’s talk at last summer’s Virtual Birdfair

He explains first-hand why the book All the Birds of the World is so special and many interesting insights of this unique work.