Lynx Edicions
| Founder | Ramon Mascort Amigó,Jordi Sargatal,andJosep del Hoyo |
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Headquarters location | Cerdanyola del Vallès |
| Publication types | Books |
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| Official website | www |
Lynx Edicionsis a Spanishpublishing companyspecializing inornithologyandnatural history.
History[edit]
Lynx Edicions was founded inBarcelonabyRamon Mascort Amigó,a lawyer and collector;Jordi Sargatal,a naturalist; andJosep del Hoyo,a medical doctor and writer.[1]Since 2002, the company has been based in theBellaterradistrict ofCerdanyola del Vallès.
Books[edit]
Lynx Edicions publishes theHandbook of the Birds of the World,a 16-volume series completed in 2012 that documents for the first time in a single work an entire animalclass,illustrating and treating in detail all the species of that class. No such comprehensive work had been completed before for this or any other group in theanimalkingdom.
Other books published by this company include theHandbook of the Mammals of the World(a multi-volume undertaking like the work on birds; work on it began in 2009); field guides to birds of various regions (starting in 2018);[1]andBirds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide,published in collaboration with theSmithsonian Institution.
Internet Bird Collection[edit]
As a complement to theHandbook of the Birds of the World,and with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna, in 2002 Lynx Edicions started theInternet Bird Collection(IBC). This was a free-access, online audiovisual library of footage of the world's birds which hosted videos, photographs, and recordings illustrating various biological traits (e.g. subspecies, plumage, feeding, breeding, etc.) for 96% of all bird species.[2]It was a non-profit endeavour fuelled by material from more than one hundred contributors around the world. In 2020 the IBC was incorporated into theCornell Lab of Ornithology'sMacaulay Library,which now hosts all of the content previously stored on the IBC.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ab"Our History".Lynx Edicions.
- ^abBorgmann, Kathi (28 Feb 2020)."The Internet Bird Collection joins the Macaulay Library".Macaulay Library.Retrieved21 Jan2022.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Internet Bird Collectionat The Macaulay Library
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