81 color plates, >500 photographs, and 766 distribution maps.
#Handbook of the birds of the world vol 16 series#
The series is complete in 16 volumes, but forthcoming volumes, including a Global Index with new species, and an Illustrated Checklist, will round out the reference. Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, and David Christie, Eds. English, French, German, Spanish, and Latin names are given for each species. Each species is illustrated on a color plate, including all significant sexual and subspecific differences, and high quality color photographs depict many aspects of the birds' life and behavior.
#Handbook of the birds of the world vol 16 plus#
They include exhaustive family texts, plus detailed individual species accounts which include distribution maps. This is the first work ever to illustrate all the species of birds in the world, in addition to providing access to all the essential information about each one of them.Įach volume measures 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in (24 x 31 cm). This comprehensive, beautifully illustrated work has already become the definitive reference work to the bird families covered. A truly impressive source of knowledge and joy for bird-lovers and I am already looking forward to the first supplementary volume. The comprehensive texts and fantastic illustrations will keep me busy long into old age. El nombre genérico femenino «Elaenia» deriva del griego « elaineos»: de aceite de oliva, oleaginosa 5 y el nombre de la especie. and the nine-volume Handbook of the Birds of. Volume 16 completes the Handbook of the Birds of the World. Este taxón fue descrito, originalmente con nivel de subespecie, en el año 1941 por el ornitólogo estadounidense John Todd Zimmer, con el nombre científico de Elaenia obscura sordida. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 16. hyrcanus) som en underart till balkanmes, men genetiska studier visar att hyrkanmesen snarare står närmare talltita (P. belonged to the generation of ornithologists who did so much to popularise birdwatching after the second world war. The Handbook of the Birds of the World is the first work ever to illustrate and deal in detail with all the living species of birds, and also the first work to verbally and visually portray each member of an entire Class of the Animal Kingdom. Published in Barcelona in association with BirdLife International, the first fifteen volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) have met with universal acclaim. I verket Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds (Shirihai & Svensson 2018) urskiljs endast fyra underarter, där lugens inkluderas i lugubris-7.
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