Handbook of the birds of the world [HBW], volume three: hoatzins to auks.

Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 1996.
Quarto, dustwrapper, 821 pp. colour plates and photographs, maps.

To be completed in sixteen volumes. Species accounts cover taxonomy, distribution (including subspecies), habitat, feeding, breeding, movements, status and conservation. This volume includes Hoatzin, mesites, buttonquails, cranes, Limpkin, trumpeters, rails, gallinules coots, finfoots, Kagu, sunbittern, seriemas, bustards, jacanas, painted-snipes, crab plover, oystercatchers, Ibisbill, stilts, avocets, thick-knees, coursers, pratincoles, plovers, sandpipers, snipes, phalaropes, Plains-wanderer, seedsnipes, sheathbills, skuas, gulls, terns, skimmers and auks.