Josep del Hoyo Calduch(Editor), Andrew Elliott(Editor), Jordi Sargatal(Editor), Christopher Imboden(Foreword By)
696 pages, 64 plates with colour illustrations; 382 colour photos, 568 colour distribution maps
Publisher: Lynx Edicions
This first volume covers the following families: ostrich; rheas; cassowaries; emu; kiwis; tinamous; penguins; divers; grebes; albatrosses; petrels & shearwaters; storm- and diving-petrels; tropicbirds; pelicans; gannets & boobies; cormorants; darters; frigatebirds; herons; hamerkop; storks; shoebill; ibises and spoonbills; flamingos; screamers; ducks, geese & swans.
