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Handbook of the Birds of the World – Volume 13
Penduline-tits to Shrikes
140.00€ 119.00€
This volume begins with a Foreword by Ian Newton which deals with various aspects of bird migration, such as global patterns, velocities, distances and phenology of migration, the factors that influence it, the ability of birds to orient themselves and so on.
The volume treats 16 families, the largest of which are sunbirds (132 species), the white-eyes (98 species) and the honeyeaters (175 species), which together make up more than two thirds of the 595 species featured in the book. The rest are medium- or small-sized families of between 10 (treecreepers, berrypeckers & longbills) and 44 species (flowerpeckers), and also included are very small families whose species number just one (Wallcreeper) or very few (pardalotes).
It is a book that will be enjoyed by anyone interested in the birds of the Old World, containing basically species of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Pacific Islands, though it also treats a few North American species, such as some members of the families of nuthatches and shrikes, and the enigmatic Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps), Bushtit and Brown Creeper.
In the pages of this volume the reader will find information on the highly social breeding behaviour of some Long-tailed Tits, dwell on the enchanting illustrations of sunbirds and photographs of rare, little-known birds like the White-browed Nuthatch or the capture of the precise instant that a Great Grey Shrike catches a mouse in the snow.
Foreword on bird migration by Ian Newton.
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Remizidae (Penduline-tits) | Steve Madge | |
| Family Aegithalidae (Long-tailed Tits) | Simon Harrap | |
| Family Sittidae (Nuthatches) | Simon Harrap | |
| Family Tichodromidae (Wallcreeper) | Hans Löhrl & Mike Wilson | |
| Family Certhiidae (Treecreepers) | Simon Harrap | |
| Family Rhabdornithidae (Rhabdornis) | Robert Kennedy & Hector Miranda | |
| Family Nectariniidae (Sunbirds) | Robert Cheke & Clive Mann | |
| Family Melanocharitidae (Berrypeckers and Longbills) | Phil Gregory | |
| Family Paramythiidae (Painted Berrypeckers) | Brian Coates | |
| Family Dicaeidae (Flowerpeckers) | Robert Cheke & Clive Mann | |
| Family Pardalotidae (Pardalotes) | John Woinarski | |
| Family Zosteropidae (White-eyes) | Bas van Balen | |
| Family Promeropidae (Sugarbirds) | Dawie de Swardt | |
| Family Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters) | Peter Higgins, Les Christidis & Hugh Ford | |
| Family Oriolidae (Orioles) | Bruno Walther & Peter Jones | |
| Family Laniidae (Shrikes) | Reuven Yosef & International Shrike Working Group |
- 60 colour plates
- 536 photographs
- 611 distribution maps
- more than 6000 bibliographical references
| Weight | 4.53 kg |
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| Dimensions | 24 × 31 cm |
| Language | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Pages | 879 |
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| ISBN | 978-84-96553-45-3 |
| Published in | January 2008 |
| Published by | Lynx Edicions |
Authors
Dr Bas van Balen: Honorary Researcher, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Professor Robert A. Cheke: Professor of Tropical Zoology, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich at Medway, Kent, England.
Dr Les Christidis: Research Associate, Division of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
Brian J. Coates: Publisher and freelance ornithological consultant, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Professor Hugh A. Ford: Division of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.
Phil Gregory: Professional bird guide and field ornithologist, Field Guides Inc. & Sicklebill Safaris, Kuranda, Queensland, Australia.
Simon Harrap: Freelance ornithologist, naturalist and photographer, Norfolk, England.
Peter J. Higgins: Consultant ornithologist and science editor, Sawtell, New South Wales, Australia; also, Senior Editor Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB).
Dr Peter J. Jones: Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dr Robert S. Kennedy: Director of Natural Sciences, Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket; also, Associate, Ornithology Department, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr Hans Löhrl: Formerly Head of the Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Radolfzell, Germany. Deceased.
Steve C. Madge: Freelance wildlife consultant and writer; also, President, Cornwall Bird-watching & Preservation Society, Cornwall, England.
Dr Clive F. Mann: Freelance ornithologist/biologist, London, England.
Dr Hector C. Miranda: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, USA.
Professor Ian Newton: Emeritus Fellow, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood Research Station, Huntingdon, England.
Dawid H. de Swardt: Head of Ornithology Department, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Dr Bruno A. Walther: Science Officer, DIVERSITAS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Michael G. Wilson: Honorary Research Associate, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; also, freelance translator and editor (ornithology), Oxford, England.
Dr John Woinarski: Principal Scientist, Biodiversity Conservation Division, Department of Natural Resources, Environment and The Arts; also, Adjunct Professorial Fellow, School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia.
Professor Reuven Yosef: Director, International Birding & Research Centre, Eilat, Israel.
Members of the International Shrike Working Group
Artists
Norman Arlott
Hilary Burn
Ren Hathway
Ian Lewington
Douglas Pratt
Brian E. Small
Jan Wilczur
Tim Worfolk
Family Index of the Handbook of the Birds of the World series
Download and print these quick indexes of all the families covered in HBW.
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