HANDBOOK OF THE BIRDS OF THE WORLD ALIVE. SERIES
Since I was aware that I could not take on this huge enterprise on my own, I looked for partners, co-editors and many team members, and together we were able to found Lynx Edicions in 1989, officially start the HBW project in 1989, publish the first volume in 1992 and continue through to publish the last volume of the series in 2013. The goal was to create the first work where each and every one of the world’s bird species was treated in reasonable detail and illustrated. While being a fan of all of these projects, I can talk in further depth about the Handbook of the Birds of the World given my close involvement in it since its inception, which was also the beginning of our publishing house, Lynx Edicions. Josep del Hoyo with HBW editors, circa 1992. Each of these projects has been running successfully for a good number of years and encompasses a huge amount of work by so many people that their combination in Birds of the World means the new project is already extremely rich even from its early infancy. The eBird project has changed birding for so many people while representing a significant advance in Avian Science. Of course, I cannot forget the important role played by the innovative eBird project, which is closely intertwined with Birds of the World. As one of the founders of Lynx Edicions and Senior Editor of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW), it is my pleasure to see HBW thrive and expand in its new home at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and I was invited to take a moment to welcome you to this new platform.Īs long-time subscribers know, this new publication has well-established roots and solid foundations, including the 17 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World and its first online version, HBW Alive, the deep-diving Birds of North America and the very much needed Neotropical Birds, as well as the Macaulay Library, which now also holds the Internet Bird Collection (IBC), forming undoubtably the biggest assembly of audiovisual resources in the world. I am honored to help welcome you to the brand new Birds of the World, a multi-layered website that I believe is the most powerful bird reference ever created.
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