Owls (Strigiformes): Annotated and Illustrated Checklist

Description:

First systematic checklist of owls for over 50 years, including subspecies and synonyms. Information on type locality, habitat and distribution of 220 species and 539 taxa, as well as the location of museum collections of skins and mounted specimens, and reference to owl illustrations. Detailed species information includes previously unpublished data on measurements of body length and mass, wing-, tail-, tarsus- and bill-length. Scientific names, common names in English, German, French and Spanish are listed. Many drawings and watercolours of newly described or recently (within the last 20 years) rediscovered species supplement the checklist