Handbook of the birds of the world order plates
Series: Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) Volume: 5. World / Checklist Flora / Fauna SPECIAL OFFER.
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. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 5: Barn Owls to Hummingbirds. 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. Edited by: Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal - ISBN: 84-8 Published October 1992.
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They include exhaustive family texts, plus detailed individual species accounts which include distribution maps. Handbook of the Mammals of the World Volume 6 Lynx Edicions Published by Lynx Edicions in association with Conservation International and IUCN Rats and mice and their relatives in the order Rodentia make up almost half of the species of mammals. 310 x 240 mm 696 pages - 14 anatomical colour plates - 50 colour plates of birds - 382 colour photographs - 568 distribution maps - more than 6000 bibliographical references.
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. 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.