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Birds of the World

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Inhalt :: Content

Online‑Service mit Zugang zu umfangreichen, fachlich geprüften Informationen zu Vogelarten und -familien weltweit, die mit Beobachtungsdaten und Multimedia-Daten (Foto-, Video- und Tonmaterial sowie die Karten der Verbreitungsgebiete) aus Projekten des Cornell Lab of Ornithology wie eBird und der Macaulay Library verknüpft sind. Die Inhalte stammen aus mehreren etablierten ornithologischen Referenzwerken und Projekten, darunter das Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (HBW) hrsg. von Josep del Hoyo, das von 1992 bis 2013 in einer 17-bändigen Printausgabe veröffentlicht wurde, Birds of North America (BNA), Neotropical Birds Online und weiteren Referenzwerken. Updates: laufend.

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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Preise auf Anfrage / Prices on request

Das Angebot richtet sich nicht an Verbraucher i. S. d. § 13 BGB und Letztverbraucher i. S. d. PAngV.

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108463

Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information

Birds of the World is a fully collaborative ornithological platform that brings together deep, scholarly content from several celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.

Birds of the World offers the following features:

• 11,145 species accounts with details on appearance, taxonomy, habitat, diet, breeding, behavior, and more.
• 254 bird family accounts
• Annual taxonomy updates
• Descriptions and photos of hybrids and subspecies
• BirdLife Range maps, eBird Status & Trends maps, and animated migration maps
• Scientific illustrations of every species and many subspecies
• Expertly curated media galleries showing the bird throughout its life cycle (photos, videos, and sound recordings from the Macaulay Library)
• IUCN Conservation Status
• Avian taxonomy explorer with regional filters
• ‘Key to Scientific Names‘ by James A. Jobling, including original description, protonym, and type locality.
• Full Species List
• Literature cited
• Ornithological Notes
• Science news blog
• Search common bird names using your own language (more than 96 languages and regional variations available)
• Body of text available in English and Spanish (other languages to come)
• Ongoing updates by leading ornithologists

The Birds of the World database, which was newly published in spring 2020, incorporates the Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (HBW), Birds of North America (BNA) and Neotropical Birds databases, among others.

The Cornell Lab offers flexible pricing and access arrangements that allow all or designated members of an institution complete access to Birds of the World species accounts. Pricing depends on the industry and size of the organization, the nature of use, and the number of potential users. A minimum of 5 users is required to qualify for an institutional subscription. Access is typically granted seamlessly through IP address verification, referrer URL, or remote username and password.