All the Birds of the World

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For the first time ever, you can contemplate All the Birds of the World together in a single easy-to-use, fully illustrated volume. Created for a broad public, from novice birders to expert ornithologists and anyone interested in the spectacular diversity of birds, this book has something for everyone. Members of our team serve on the international taxonomic authority and our entire platform was built to accept annual taxonomic updates. Cladogram of modern bird relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014) [2] with some clade names after Yuri, T. et al. (2013). [3] Aves

Presents every taxon accepted as species by any of the four major world lists: 11,524 species in total. Nearly all living birds belong to the subclass Neognathae or "new jaws". With their keeled sternum (breastbone), unlike the ratites, they are known as carinatae. Boesman, P. & Collar, N. J. 2019. Two undescribed species of bird from West Africa. Bull BOC 139: 147–159.

Taxonomy

Key to Scientific Names‘ by James A. Jobling, including original description, protonym, and type locality. Bringing together content from four major publications, two multimedia libraries, and a dataset of 700 million bird observations was a significant undertaking. To meet our goal of releasing an authoritative, well integrated product by early 2020, we incorporated as much content and functionality as possible ( features list here), but some features from HBW did not make it into the initial release. These key pieces of functionality – and perhaps others – will be implemented as time and resources allow: The QR codes are really great, and adds a lot of value to the book. I use them all the time. I belive this book will sell in great numbers for many years to come, and that it will be a reference to many people for decades, so I really hope the links that the QR codes provide will be kept alive “for ever” or at least for a very long time. This volume was published in July 2014. It depicts all non-passerines with drawings and maps, including all extinct species since the year 1500. See also: List of birds by common name, Lists of birds by region, and List of bird genera Penguins Ostriches

All 16 volumes have been published. For the first time an animal class will have all the species illustrated and treated in detail in a single work. This has not been done before for any other group in the animal kingdom.The publishers state that the book’s aim is “to bring the extraordinary richness and diversity of the world’s avifauna closer to a wider audience.” They do not see it as just an extension to the earlier works but believe they can give access to more people by concentrating on illustrations and range maps for all species, rather than delving too much into the subspecies level. For the first time ever, you can literally contemplate All the Birds of the World together in a single, easy-to-use, fully-illustrated volume. Created for a broad audience, from novice birders to expert ornithologists and anyone interested in the spectacular diversity of birds, this fascinating book has something for everyone to discover. Worthy, T.H.; Degrange, F.J.; Handley, W.D.; Lee, M.S.Y. (2017). "The evolution of giant flightless birds and novel phylogenetic relationships for extinct fowl (Aves, Galloanseres)". Royal Society Open Science. 11 (10): 170975. Bibcode: 2017RSOS....470975W. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170975. PMC 5666277. PMID 29134094. The passerines (perching birds) alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that. [1]

This volume was published in December 2011. It includes a foreword on climate change and birds by Anders Pape Møller. Groups covered in this volume are as follows: All species known to have become extinct since the year 1500 presented separately in their own appendix. I only have one problem with the book. Though the great majority of illustrations are amazing, the quality of some is just not good enough for the rest of the book. A great example is on p.482 and p.483. To the left a superb illustration of a Pacific-slope Flycatcher that looks like a photograph. I can almost see it blinking and its feathers moving in the wind. To the right, a doubtful Olive-sided Flycatcher and Greater Pewee that look like taxidermy. I would not have identified them if I did not read their name. As these programs become even more tightly integrated with eBird and the Macaulay Library, creating the ultimate tool for record keeping, observation data, and media, all underpinned by unparalleled life history information on birds. Text: Birds of the World brings together scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology:

My Birding update

Expertly curated media galleries showing the bird throughout its life cycle (photos, videos, and sound recordings from the Macaulay Library) Wow. All the Birds of the World in one book. How impossible this seemed when I first became a committed bird watcher as an early teen in the 1980s. Around this time, my parents gave me a copy of the fabulous ‘Birds of the World’ by Oliver L. Austin and Arthur Singer, an early introduction to the wonderful global diversity of birds. This really was more of a guide to the bird families of the world. A more recent and a superb version of this genre of book was also published by Lynx Edicions in 2015, ‘Bird Families of the World: An invitation to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds’ by David W. Winkler, Shawn M. Billerman and Irby J. Lovette. In 1986, when ‘Shorebirds: An Identification Guide to the Waders of the World’ by Peter Hayman, John Marchant and Tony Prater was published by Helm, for birders it seemed like an earth shattering moment. Over the subsequent three decades many wonderful family monographs have been published by a tiny handful of the world’s leading ornithological publishers. However, a single book which has all the bird species in the world was still nothing more than a daydream for birders. During the period from 1992 to 2013, the 17 volume Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) was published by Lynx Edicions. After a 21 year publishing marathon, a single publisher had published illustrations and descriptive text of all the birds in the world. HBW was a publishing milestone and a zoological milestone. Lynx Edicions is an unusual publisher. At the core, driving their efforts is a team of people who are field naturalists and scientists with a deep interest in taxonomy. But they have also channelled their work into a very efficient, commercially savvy and brilliantly administrated publishing business. One outcome of this is a database approach to mining the text and illustrations from one project, adding suitable updates and redeploying for future projects.