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Handbook of the Birds of the World – Volume 14
Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows
140.00€ 119.00€
The Foreword is by Stephen Moss, and gives a global vision of the past, present and future of the observation of birds, from the first approaches to the birds by eccentric collectors to what today is a massive, global activity which influences the conservation of birds, the development of citizen science and has an undeniable economic impact.
This volume covers 17 families and 486 species, mostly distributed in sub-Saharan Africa (bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, oxpeckers), Madagascar (vangas) and Australasia (New Zealand wattlebirds, stitchbirds, mudlarks, Australian mudnesters, woodswallows, butcherbirds, bowerbirds, birds-of-paradise). Also included here is the Bristlehead, endemic to Borneo, and other families with wider distributions in the Old World (drongos, starlings, Old World sparrows) or practically distributed worldwide (crows).
Foreword on birding past, present and future – a global view, by Stephen Moss
| Order PASSERIFORMES | ||
| Family Malaconotidae (Bush-shrikes) | Hilary Fry | |
| Family Prionopidae (Helmet-shrikes) | David Allan | |
| Family Vangidae (Vangas) | Satoshi Yamagishi & Masahiko Nakamura | |
| Family Dicruridae (Drongos) | Gérard Rocamora & Dosithée Yeatman-Berthelot | |
| Family Callaeidae (New Zealand Wattlebirds) | Paul Scofield | |
| Family Notiomystidae (Stitchbird) | Peter Higgins & Les Christidis | |
| Family Grallinidae (Mudlarks) | Susan & Alan Tingay | |
| Family Struthideidae (Australian Mudnesters) | Ian Rowley & Eleanor Russell | |
| Family Artamidae (Woodswallows) | Ian Rowley & Eleanor Russell | |
| Family Cracticidae (Butcherbirds) | Eleanor Russell & Ian Rowley | |
| Family Pityriaseidae (Bristlehead) | Fred Sheldon & Rob Moyle | |
| Family Ptilonorhynchidae (Bowerbirds) | Clifford & Dawn Frith | |
| Family Paradisaeidae (Birds-of-paradise) | Clifford & Dawn Frith | |
| Family Corvidae (Crows) | Luiz dos Anjos, Stephen Debus, Steve Madge & John Marzluff | |
| Family Buphagidae (Oxpeckers) | Adrian Craig | |
| Family Sturnidae (Starlings) | Adrian Craig & Chris Feare | |
| Family Passeridae (Old World Sparrows) | Denis Summers-Smith |
- 51 colour plates of birds
- 657 colour photographs
- 485 distribution maps
- more than 6000 bibliographical references
| Weight | 4.62 kg |
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| Dimensions | 24 × 31 cm |
| Language | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Pages | 893 |
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| ISBN | 978-84-96553-50-7 |
| Published in | October 2009 |
| Published by | Lynx Edicions |
Authors
David G. Allan: Curator of Birds, Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Dr Luiz dos Anjos: Associate Professor, Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Dr Les Christidis: Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Professor Adrian J. F. K. Craig: Professor of Zoology, Department of Zoology & Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Dr Stephen J. S. Debus: Research Associate, Division of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Professor Chris J. Feare: WildWings Bird Management, Haslemere, Surrey, England.
Dr Clifford B. Frith: Independent ornithologist, Malanda, north Queensland, Australia.
Dr Dawn W. Frith: Independent ornithologist, Malanda, north Queensland, Australia.
Professor C. Hilary Fry: Department of Zoology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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).
Steve C. Madge: Freelance wildlife consultant and writer; also, President, Cornwall Bird-watching & Preservation Society, Cornwall, England.
Dr John M. Marzluff: Professor of Wildlife Science, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Stephen Moss: Series Producer, BBC Natural History Unit, Bristol, England.
Dr Robert G. Moyle: Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator, Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
Dr Masahiko Nakamura: Professor, Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Department of Biology, Joetsu University of Education, Niigata, Japan.
Dr Gérard J. Rocamora: Affiliated Ornithologist, Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d'Oiseaux, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; also, Scientific Director, Island Conservation Society, Mahé, Seychelles.
Ian C. R. Rowley: Guildford, Western Australia, Australia.
Dr Eleanor M. Russell: Guildford, Western Australia, Australia.
Dr R. Paul Scofield: Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Dr Frederick H. Sheldon: Director, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Dr J. Denis Summers-Smith: Guisborough, Cleveland, England.
Dr Alan Tingay: Consultant Environmental Scientist, Darlington, Western Australia, Australia.
Dr Susan R. Tingay: Consultant Environmental Scientist, Darlington, Western Australia, Australia.
Dr Satoshi Yamagishi: Director General, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Abiko, Chiba; also, Professor, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.
Dosithée Yeatman-Berthelot: Société d’Etudes Ornithologiques de France, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Artists
Norman Arlott
Hilary Burn
Ian Lewington
David Quinn
Chris Rose
Brian Small
Tim Worfolk
Family Index of the Handbook of the Birds of the World series
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