Handbook of the birds of the world alive.

HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF THE WORLD ALIVE. SERIES

McGowan: Biology Department, the Open University, Milton Keynes, England.

Meyburg: Chairman, World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls (WWGBP), Berlin, Germany. Olsen: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Jaume Orta: Consultant, Servei de ProtecciГі i GestiГі de Fauna. Poole: Managing Editor, The Birds of North America, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Porter: College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, USA. Thiollay: Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Ecole Normale SupГ©rieure, CNRS, Paris, France. White: College of Biology and Agriculture, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. Andrew Elliott: Grup CatalГ d'Anellament, Museu de Zoologia, Barcelona, Spain. Debus: Department of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.

Clark: Freelance raptor researcher, Virgina, USA. Carroll: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, California University of Pennsylvania, USA. Bock: Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, USA. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Дavid Houston: Applied Ornithology Unit, Glasgow Univesity, Scotland. Each species has its own distribution map indicating resident, breeding and non-breeding ranges its official status, according to BirdLife International and the threats facing each species. The species account lists names in French, German and Spanish, in addition to scientific and English names. Each chapter is subdivided into sections: systematics morphological aspects habitat general habits voice food and feeding breeding movements relationship with man status and conservation and general bibliography. Photographs illustrate more unusual features, such as courtship behaviour, thermoregulation or feeding techniques. Each chapter covers a different family, headed by a summary box. The introductory chapter deals with such diverse aspects as evolutionary history, anatomy, physiology, migration and systematics. It provides coverage of birds, from New World vultures to guineafowl.

HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF THE WORLD ALIVE. SERIES

This is the 3rd of 12 volumes in a series of handbooks on the world of birds.

Handbook of the birds of the world alive.