An ornithological handbook is a book (or series of books) giving summarised information either about the birds of a particular geographical area or a...
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Birds of the West Indies (category Ornithological handbooks)
Birds of the West Indies (ISBN 0-618-00210-3) is a book containing exhaustive coverage of the 400+ species of birds found in the Caribbean Sea, excluding...
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volumes except the first and second contain an essay on a particular ornithological theme. More than 200 renowned specialists and 35 illustrators (including...
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The Handbook of British Birds was a pioneering bird guide by H.F. Witherby, Rev. F.C.R. Jourdain, Norman F. Ticehurst and Bernard W. Tucker, published...
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first Australian regional ornithological handbook. In the Introduction the authors state: ”The need for some such Handbook as this one was impressed on...
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The Birds of Africa (category Ornithological handbooks)
also a five-volume handbook by George Ernest Shelley, published 1896-1912. The Birds of Africa is an eight-volume ornithological handbook. Its authors/editors...
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for Ornithology was started in 1933 with the aim of advancing ornithological research. Members were often involved in collaborative ornithological projects...
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Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (category Ornithological handbooks)
Guide by Pamela C. Rasmussen and John C. Anderton is a two-volume ornithological handbook, covering the birds of South Asia, published in 2005 (second edition...
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The Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan is the magnum opus of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, written along with S. Dillon Ripley. Appended to...
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The Ornithology of Australia comprises three volumes (of an uncompleted set) of lithographed, hand-coloured, illustrations of Australian birds with accompanying...
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The Birds of the Western Palearctic (redirect from Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic)
Palearctic; often referred to by the initials BWP) is a nine-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of the western portion of the Palearctic zoogeographical...
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Miles McMullan (category Ornithological handbooks)
Miles McMullan (born 1 August 1967 in Bangor) is an author, illustrator, conservationist and naturalist from Northern Ireland, who has made innovative...
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Book of Indian Birds (category Ornithological handbooks)
The Book of Indian Birds by Salim Ali is a landmark book on Indian ornithology, which helped spark popular interest in the birds of India. First published...
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Nederlandsche vogelen (category Ornithological handbooks)
Illustrator Christiaan Sepp Language Dutch Series 5 volumes Subject Ornithology Publisher Jan Christiaan Sepp Publication date 1770-1829 Publication...
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The Birds of Australia (Gould) (category Ornithological handbooks)
updated version of the text of The Birds of Australia in the two-volume Handbook to the Birds of Australia. "Rare Book - Gould, John, The Birds of Australia...
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Handbuch der Vögel Mitteleuropas (category Ornithological handbooks)
to Günther Niethammer's Handbuch der deutschen Vogelkunde (Handbook of German Ornithology), which was published in three volumes in 1937, 1938, and 1942...
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A History of British Birds (category Ornithological handbooks)
vignettes." The 1829 Magazine of Natural History commented that "Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary and Bewick's Birds .. have rendered [the] department of natural...
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Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 July...
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The Birds of Australia (Mathews) (category Ornithological handbooks)
The Birds of Australia is a 12-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of Australia. It was the second of three monumental illustrated works...
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The Birds of America (category Ornithological handbooks)
perches and background detail. Audubon also authored the companion book Ornithological Biographies. About 1820, around the age of 35, Audubon declared his...
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A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (category Ornithological handbooks)
A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains is an ornithological book published by John Gould between 1830 & 1832. John Gould was working as a taxidermist...
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Extinct Birds (category Ornithological handbooks)
vanishing birds published in the Proceedings of the 4th International Ornithological Congress 1905 in London. Subsequent authors like Errol Fuller were influenced...
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The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, known as HANZAB, is the pre-eminent scientific reference on birds in the region, which includes...
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Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 2 May...
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Birds of Australia: A Summary of Information (category Ornithological handbooks)
the ornithological journal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, shortly before the opening of the August 1974 International Ornithological Congress...
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Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 10 May...
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A History of the Birds of Europe (category Ornithological handbooks)
the Species Inhabiting the Western Palearctic Region is a nine-volume ornithological book published in parts between 1871 and 1896. It was mainly written...
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Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 10 March...
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it records, and to its plentiful snippets of ornithological and, indeed, Australian history, the Handbook offers pleasing samples of natural history prose...
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Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 4 May...
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