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    Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 1 - Ostrich to Ducks

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    Series
    AuthorsJosep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal
    LanguageEnglish
    ISBN9788487334108
    PublisherLynx Ediciones
    Pages696
    Format31 x 24 cm
    Bindinghardcover
    Picturesrichly illustrated, full color
    Year of publication  1992

    This is the emblematic first volume of the series, published in 1992. It features a Foreword by Christoph Imboden, presenting the project. There is also a 38-page introductory article, providing a complete general description of the biology of birds.
    Following the taxonomical order of the encyclopaedia, the volume covers the 27 bird families. Some groups are geographically highly localized (cassowaries, kiwis, Shoebill), or found on only one continent (Ostrich, rheas, emus, tinamous, Hamerkop, screamers), but the greater part of the volume is dedicated to the families of marine and aquatic birds with extensive distributions in the northern hemisphere (divers), the tropical zone (tropicbirds, darters, frigatebirds), in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters (penguins, albatrosses, diving-petrels), and cosmopolites (grebes, petrels, pelicans, herons, flamingos, ducks, geese and swans).


    Order Struthioniformes

    Family Struthionidae (Ostrich)

    Family Rheidae (Rheas)

    Family Casuariidae (Cassowaries)

    Family Dromaiidae (Emu)

    Family Apterygidae (Kiwis)

    Order TINAMIFORMES

    Family Tinamidae (tinamous)

    Order Sphenisciformes

    Family Spheniscidae (Penguins)

    Order GAVIIFORMES

    Family Gaviidae (Divers)

    Order PODICIPEDIFORMES

    Family Podicipedididae (Grebes)

    Order Procellariiformes

    Family Diomedeidae (Albatrosses)

    Family Procellariidae (Petrels and Shearwaters)

    Family Hydrobatidae (Storm-petrels)

    Family Pelecanoididae (Diving-petrels)

    Order PELECANIFORMES

    Family Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds)

    Family Pelecanidae (Pelicans)

    Family Sulidae (Gannets and Boobies)

    Family Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants)

    Family Anhingidae (darters)

    Family Fregatidae (Frigatebirds)

    Order CICONIIFORMES

    Family Ardeidae (Herons)

    Family Scopidae (Hammerhead)

    Family Ciconiidae (Storks)

    Family Balaenicipitidae (Shoebill)

    Family Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills)

    Order PHOENICOPTERIFORMES

    Family Phoenicopteridae (Flamingos)

    Order ANSERIFORMES

    Family Anhimidae (Screamers)

    Family Anatidae (Ducks, Geese and Swans)

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    9788487334108
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    9788487334108

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