Volume 10 of the Handbook of the Birds of the World, Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes, covers 12 families of oscines, from Africa, South Asia, and the Americas. With 81 color plates, 427 photographs, and 737 distribution maps, this is the largest volume in the series. It includes a foreword on the ecology of exotic birds and a comprehensive family text on thrushes.
Volume 10, Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes, is the largest volume in the series, with 895 pages covering 12 diverse families of oscine birds. This volume spans a wide range of habitats, from Africa and South Asia to the Americas, and includes some of the most familiar and studied bird species.
The featured families include the cuckoo-shrikes, bulbuls, leafbirds, fairy-bluebirds, and ioras of Africa and South Asia, alongside New World species like silky-flycatchers, Palmchat, and mockingbirds. Also included are globally familiar species like waxwings, dippers, and the exclusively Eurasian accentors. The volume concludes with the largest and most detailed family text in the series: the Turdidae (thrushes), covering well-known species like robins and blackbirds.
The volume begins with a foreword by Daniel Sol, Tim Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, Richard Duncan, and Jordi Clavell, who explore the ecological impacts of exotic birds. This in-depth essay discusses the spread and influence of non-native bird species across the globe.
SUMMARY OF VOLUME 10Foreword on the ecology and impact of non-indigenous birds by Daniel Sol, Tim Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, Richard Duncan and Jordi Clavell. Introduction
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REFERENCES
References of Scientific Descriptions
General List of References
INDEX
AUTHORS OF VOLUME 10
Simon J. Aspinall
Freelance ecological consultant and writer, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Dr Tim M. Blackburn
Reader in Macroecology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
Dr David Brewer
Research Associate, Department of Ornithology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Dr Phillip Cassey
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
Dr Miyoko C. Chu
Science Editor, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Jordi Clavell
Coordinator of the Exotic Birds Study Group (GAE), SEO/BirdLife, Barcelona, Spain.
Dr Martin L. Cody
Emeritus and Research Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dr Nigel J. Collar
Leventis Fellow in Conservation Biology, Conservation Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
Dr Richard P. Duncan
Associate Professor, Bio-Protection and Ecology Division, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Dr Lincoln D. C. Fishpool
BirdLife International, Cambridge, England.
Dr Ben J. Hatchwell
Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.
Dr Donald D. Kroodsma
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr D. James Mountjoy
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA.
Prof Steve J. Ormerod
Professor of Ecology, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales.
Richard F. Porter
Adviser to BirdLife International’s Middle East conservation programme.
Dr Daniel Sol
Associate Researcher, Centre de recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
Dr Barry Taylor
Honorary Research Associate, School of Botany & Zoology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Helen J. Temple
Postgraduate, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
Dr Joseph A. Tobias
BirdLife International, Cambridge, England.
Dr Stephanie J. Tyler
Monmouthshire, Wales.
Dr David R. Wells
Research affiliate, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, England; formerly University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Dr Phillip Cassey
Postdoctoral researcher, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
ARTISTS FOR VOLUME 10
Norman Arlott, Hilary Burn, François Desbordes, John Cox, Ren Hathway, Ian Lewington, Douglas Pratt, Chris Rose, Brian Small, Jan Wilczur, Ian Willis and Tim Worfolk.
TECHNICAL DETAILS OF VOLUME 10
- 310 x 240 mm
- 80 colour plates
- Over 400 colour photographs
- 737 distribution maps
- c. 6000 bibliographical references
- Edited by: Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie
