num_pages: 821
description: Hoatzin to Auks. 60 colour plates of birds 389 colour photographs 577 distribution maps and more than 8000 bibliographical references. There is a foreword by Robert Bateman on art and nature.Volume #3 includes the following taxa:Opisthocomidae (hoatzin)Mesitornithidae (mesites)Turnicidae (buttonquails)Gruidae (cranes)Aramidae (limpkin)Psophiidae (trumpeters)Rallidae (rails gallinules and coots)Heliornithidae (finfoots)Rhynochetidae (kagu)Eurypygidae (sunbittern)Cariamidae (seriemas)Otididae (bustards)Jacanidae (jacanas)Rostratulidae (painted snipes)Dromadidae (crab plover)Haematopodidae (oystercatchers)Ibidorhynchidae (ibisbill)Recurvirostridae (avocets stilts)Burhinidae (thick-knees)Glareolidae (pratincoles coursers)Charadriidae (plovers)Scolopacidae (sandpipers and allies)Pedionomidae (plains-wanderer)Thinocoridae (seedsnipes)Chionididae (sheathbills)Stercorariidae (skuas)Laridae (gulls)Sternidae (terns)Rhynchopidae (skimmers)Alcidae (auks)
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 3: Hoatzin to Auks
publisher: Lynx Edicions