The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World edited by Edward C. Dickinson, Christopher Helm, third edition, 拢60, ISBN 071366536X
Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 8: Broadbills to Tapaculos edited by Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie, Lynx Edicions, 拢120, ISBN 8487334504
The New Encyclopedia of Birds edited by Christopher Perrins, Oxford University Press, revised edition, 拢35, ISBN 0198525060 Reviewed by David Tomlinson
ACCORDING to this greatly revised third edition of The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist, there are 9721 living species of birds in the world. It doesn’t tell you…



