More on the HBW field guides from an email received this morning:
New collection of Field Guides: more illustrations to be included in HBW Alive
We are very pleased to announce that Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International are launching a new series of field guides: Lynx and BirdLife International Field Guides.
The main goal of the project is to produce an extensive collection of modern, standardized field guides, with special attention given to countries without any recent or country-level guide.
Notable highlights of the new field guides:
- QR code for each species, linking to the Internet Bird Collection gallery of photos, videos and sounds.
- Subspecies ranges denoted on the maps.
- Illustrations of birds in flight, juveniles and non-breeding plumages.
- Subspecies groups given full accounts.
- Local species name and local conservation status included when available.
In order to facilitate their use, all of the field guides in the collection follow the same design, and this consistency extends to the taxonomy, which is that of the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. And to give more prominence to local taxa, all subspecies groups present in the region have full entries as well.
The field guides contain illustrations from the Handbook of the Birds of the World series, as well as many additional figures prepared specifically for each publication. The coverage includes males and relevant females and morphs, as well as flying waterfowl, pigeons and doves, ibises, herons, storks, shorebirds, gulls, terns and raptors, as well as a number of juvenile, immature and non-breeding plumages. Once the first title of the collection, Birds of Thailand, is published, more than 500 new illustrations will be added to HBW Alive!
Not only will HBW Alive benefit from the additional figures from the field guides, but also from updates and new information from the preparation of the titles that will be incorporated into the HBW Alive species account texts and maps.
Find out more about
Birds of Thailand at the end of this Newsletter. More titles covering the Asian region are coming soon, so look for further announcements and previews!
To be released in late July.
Birds of Thailand
By Uthai Treesucon and Wich'yanan Limparungpattanakij
Series: Lynx and BirdLife International Field Guides
This new field guide will help you identify all 1049 species to have been recorded in the country to date, including the 20 species endemic or near-endemic to Thailand.
- Taxonomy follows the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World.
- Detailed texts covering status, habitat and behaviour, age, sex and geographical variation, voice, and confusion species.
- Almost 2200 illustrations covering all species and distinctive subspecies, birds in flight, males and females, juveniles and non-breeding plumages, where appropriate.
- QR code for each species, linking to the Internet Bird Collection gallery of photos, videos and sounds.
- More than 1025 full-colour range maps for all species other than vagrants.
- Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.
- Local species name and local conservation status included.
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