The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World 3d Edition - Book

The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World 3d Edition
Edited by Edward C Dickinson

Condition: New
Pages: 1039
Edition: 3rd
Copyright Richard Howard and Edward C. Dickenson, 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0-691-11701-2

Subject: This is a not a field guide. It has no illustrations or descriptions of what birds look like. It is a list of all the birds of the world, organized in the Howard and Moore taxonomic sequence.

Description of the book, from the book's covers:

The most accurate and comprehensive taxonomic checklist of birds of the world ever published in a single volume

Now in its third, thoroughly revised and updated edition

Existing data rigorously referenced by a team of regional experts

All species and subspecies described since the mid-1980s fully referenced, for the first time in any checklist

Around 4,000 footnotes explaining taxonomic choices, and 3,000 references including all authorities for recently described taxa

Introductory sections discuss the rationale behind the list sequence, as well as key concepts and new developments in the study of avian taxonomy.

All taxa fully indexed by English and scientific names -- the latter to subspecies level for the first time.