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1.5 Volume 5: Marsupials (published in June 2015).

1.4 Volume 4: Sea Mammals (published in July 2014).

1.3 Volume 3: Primates (published in April 2013).

1.2 Volume 2: Hoofed Mammals (published in August 2011).

1.1 Volume 1: Carnivores (published in May 2009).

With the foreword Conservation of the world's birds by Stuart Butchart, Nigel Collar, Alison Stattersfield & Leon Bennun. Groups covered in this volume are as follows:Ĭorcoracidae (White-winged Chough and Apostlebird) With the foreword Birding Past, Present and Future – a Global View by Stephen Moss. Volume 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows Melanocharitidae (Berrypeckers and Longbills) Groups covered in this volume are as follows: With an introductory essay on Bird Migration by Ian Newton. Groups covered in this volume are as follows:Īcanthizidae (Australasian warblers and Thornbills)Ĭlimacteridae (Australasian Treecreepers) With a foreword on Fossil Birds by Kevin J. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees It has an introductory essay on "The ecological significance of bird populations" by Cagan Sekercioglu with a Preface by Paul R. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers Turdidae (Thrushes) and a part of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Chats) which is now part of family Muscicapidae (HBW 11) It has an introductory essay on "The Ecology And Impact Of Non-Indigenous Birds" by Daniel Sol, Tim Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, Richard Duncan and Jordi Clavell. It has an introductory essay on "Ornithological Nomenclature" by Richard Banks.

Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails It has an introductory essay on "The History Of Bird Classification" by Murray Bruce. It has an introductory essay on "Extinct Birds" by Errol Fuller. It has an introductory essay entitled "On Avian Bioacoustics" by Luis Baptista and Don Kroodsma. It has an introductory essay on "Risk Indicators and Status Assessment in Birds" by Nigel J. It has an introductory essay on "Species Concepts and Species Limits in Ornithology" by Jürgen Haffer. It has an introductory essay by Robert Bateman on "Art And Nature". Groups covered in this volume are as follows:Ĭracidae (Chachalacas, Guans And Curassows)

Bock on the organization of information in HBW. Volume 2: New World Vultures to Guineafowl Threskiornithidae (Ibises And Spoonbills) Unlike subsequent volumes, it does not have an introductory essay instead, it has a 38 page overview by Eduardo de Juana of the biology of birds and a foreword welcoming the HBW project, by Christoph Imboden. Volume 1 covers the non-passerines, and volume 2 covers the passerines. Each volume has the same size of a HBW Volume.

It includes all the HBW plates and essential information in two volumes. Douglas Pratt) from more than 40 countries have contributed to the project up to now, as well as 834 photographers from all over the world.Ĭomplementing the series, Lynx has published a checklist in association with BirdLife: HBW And Birdlife International Illustrated Checklist Of The Birds Of The World. More than 200 renowned specialists and 35 illustrators (including Toni Llobet, Hilary Burn and H. In addition, all volumes except the first and second contain an essay on a particular ornithological theme. Material in each volume is grouped first by family, with an introductory article on each family this is followed by individual species accounts (taxonomy, subspecies and distribution, descriptive notes, habitat, food and feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation, bibliography).

This has not been done before for any other group in the animal kingdom. For the first time an animal class has all the species illustrated and treated in detail in a single work. Handbook of the Birds of the World (16-Volume Set + Special Volume) comprises all volumes of HBW, illustrating and describing in detail every species of bird in the world.