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Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume IV
Previously rated Top Birding Book of the Year. For the serious collector, ornithologist, or birding enthusiast, The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is the first work ever to illustrate and deal in detail with all the species of birds in the world. AUTHORS OF VOLUME 4Dr L.F. BaptistaCurator and Chair, Deptartment of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.Dr N.J. CollarResearch Fellow, BirdLife International, Cambridge, England.Dr J. H. HafferResearch Associate, Section Biology and Phylogeny of Tropical Birds, A. Koenig Zoological Research Institute and Zoological Museum, Bonn, Germany.H.M. HorblitField associate, Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.Dr E. de JuanaDepartamento de Biología Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.Professor R.B. PayneProfessor of Zoology & Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.Dr I. RowleyHon. Editor, Emu, CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Midland, Western Australia, Australia.Dr P.W. TrailResearch associate, Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.D.A. TurnerSecretary, East African Natural History Society, Ornithological Sub-Committee, Nairobi, Kenya.ARTISTS FOR VOLUME 4Richard Allen, Norman Arlott, Hilary Burn, Clive Byers, John Cox, Martin Elliott, Mark Hulme, Angels Jutglar, Francesc Jutglar, Ian Lewington, Chris Rose, Lluís Sanz, Etel Vilaró, Lyn Wells, Jan Wilczur, Ian Willis, Martin Woodcock and Tim Worfolk.TECHNICAL DETAILS OF VOLUME 4310 x 240 mm 674 pages 70 colour plates of birds 236 colour photographs 837 distribution maps 13 figures and tables c. 7000 bibliographical references Edited by:Josep del HoyoAndrew ElliottJordi Sargatal ISBN: 84-87334-21-0 Published December 1997 SKU: 442HBW4 Category: Outdoor and Garden
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