Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 16 - Tanagers to New World Blackbirds

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Series	Handbook of the Birds of the World
Authors	Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, David A. Christie
Language	English
ISBN	9788496553781
Publisher	Lynx Ediciones
Pages	894
Format	31 x 24 cm
Binding	hardcover
Pictures	richly illustrated, full color
Year of publication	2011

This volume is the culmination of the monumental task of treating with text and illustrations in a single work every living bird species in the world.
The volume begins with a Foreword by Anders Pape Møller on birds and climate change, which highlights how a warming planet affects birds in multiple ways, from breeding phenology and migration to population dynamics and the risk of extinction.
With just a few exceptions (6%), the majority of the species in this volume are from the Nearctic and Neotropical. The families, with the greatest number of photographs in the whole encyclopaedia (499), commence with the tanagers (283 species), which include, especially in the genus Tangara, some of the most colourful birds in the world. Then comes the family of the cardinals (42 species), with similarly striking plumage and iconic species like the Northern Cardinal. Next is the extensive family of buntings and New World sparrows (326 species), with representatives in almost the whole world and containing very well-known species such as the White-crowned Sparrow. The book’s final family, completing the taxonomy of birds with its 111 species, is that of the highly social and vocal New World blackbirds.

Order PASSERIFORMES

Family Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Family Cardinalidae (Cardinals)

Family Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows)

Family Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

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