Handbook of the Birds of the World [HBW], Volume Sixteen: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds

This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order.  Please contact us. The ninth and final passerine volume.  This volume completes the sixteen volume series. I t covers the last four families of the series, including two of the largest of all, the tanagers (283 species) and the buntings and New World sparrows (326 species), as well as the cardinals and the New World blackbirds, the latter including such spectacular birds as the orioles and oropendolas. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation.
This volume includes:
Cardinals
Tanagers
Buntings and New world sparrows
New world blackbirds

Contents
Foreword on Climate Change and Birds, by Anders Pape Møller.
Order PASSERIFORMEs
Family Thraupidae (Tanagers) by Steven Hilty
Family Cardinalidae (Cardinals) by Ronald Orenstein & David Brewer
Family Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows) by James Rising, Alvaro Jaramillo, José Luis Copete, Steve Madge and Peter Ryan
Family Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)by Rosendo Fraga

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