📗 Libro en inglés HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF THE WORLD (VOL. 7): JACAMARS TO WOODPECK ERS

Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Prólogo sobre aves extinguidas. Más de 4000 referencias bibliográficas.IT''S BIG! It''s back and it''s beautiful as ever! Forget the superlatives; they ran out long ago and there simply aren''t enough words in the thesaurus. Just take it as read that everything about the latest volume of Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is simply first - class. After the publication of the last volume, the publishers realised that planned 12 volumes were insufficient to do justice to the project. Rather than take a unilateral decision, they polled all the subscribers, asking them if they were prepared to support extending the series to 16. It''s a measure of the quality of the books that a whopping 93% of customers said ''yes'', despite the possible damaging prospects to bookshelves, bank balances and marriages. HBW7 includes jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, toucans, honeyguides, and woodpeckers. Before you even get to the main substance of the book though, there is the foreword to look at. These always take the form of extended essays and this one, by Errol Fuller is about extinct birds. At 58 A4-sized pages, this almost the equivalent of a small book in itself. Even the foreword is profusely illustrated though, for obvious reasons, these are the mostly in the form of the plates rather than photogra...