Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 10: Cuckoo-Shrikes to Thrushes

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Another stunning volume on the passerines from all continents. the extraordinary HBW team have redoubled their amazing efforts, and now hope to produce a new HBW volume each year, with the aim of completing this superb 16 volume reference on the birds of the world (the first work ever to deal with each member of an entire Class of the Animal Kingdom) by 2011.

SUMMARY OF VOLUME 10
Foreword on the ecology and impact of non-indigenous birds by Daniel Sol, Tim Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, Richard Duncan and Jordi Clavell.

CONTENTS AND AUTHORS
Family CAMPEPHAGIDAE (Cuckoo-shrikes) Barry Taylor
Family PYCNONOTIDAE (Bulbuls) Lincoln Fishpool & Joe Tobias
Family CHLOROPSEIDAE (Leafbirds) David Wells
Family IRENIDAE (Fairy-bluebirds) David Wells
Family AEGITHINIDAE (Ioras) David Wells
Family PTILOGONATIDAE (Silky-flycatchers) Miyoko Chu
Family BOMBYCILLIDAE (Waxwings) Jim Mountjoy
Family HYPOCOLIIDAE (Hypocolius) Richard Porter & Simon Aspinall
Family DULIDAE (Palmchat) Helen Temple
Family CINCLIDAE (Dippers) Steve Ormerod & Stephanie Tyler
Family TROGLODYTIDAE (Wrens) Donald Kroodsma & David Brewer
Family MIMIDAE (Mockingbirds and Thrashers) Martin Cody
Family PRUNELLIDAE (Accentors) Ben Hatchwell
Family TURDIDAE(Thrushes) Nigel Collar

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 Ecol~gica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Universitat Aut~noma 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, Fran~ois Desbordes, John Cox, Ren Hathway, Ian Lewington, Douglas Pratt, Chris Rose, Brian Small, Jan Wilczur, Ian Willis and Tim Worfolk.

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