AUTHORS OF VOLUME 1
J. Cabot, C. Carboneras, A. Elliott, A. Folch, J. del Hoyo, E. de Juana, F. Llimona, I. Martínez, A. Martínez-Vilalta, E. Matheu, A. Orta. Motis, J.

ARTISTS FOR VOLUME 1
Angels Jutglar, Francesc Jutglar, Lluís Sanz, Lluís Solé and Juan Varela.

TECHNICAL DETAILS OF VOLUME 1
310 x 240 mm 696 pages - 14 anatomical colour plates - 50 colour plates of birds - 382 colour photographs - 568 distribution maps - more than 6000 bibliographical references
Edited by: Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal - ISBN: 84-87334-10-5 Published October 1992

REVIEWERS HAVE SAID:

This handsome tome inaugurates one of the most ambitious publication ventures in the history of ornithology... I judge this major work to be the single most useful reference on birds of the world.
The Auk, USA

If perfection does not exist upon Earth, this first volume comes very close to it. When one thinks of the difficulties of all kinds that its authors and editors must have come up against, it is clear that they have accomplished a tour de force: summa cum laude!
Nos Oiseaux, SWITZERLAND

It has taken until the end of the 20th C., but at last enough information and data have been amassed to enable the production of one work that treats all the species of birds of the world... In comparison with other birds-of-the-world books, this volume rests in a league of its own by virtue of its sheer magnitude and depth of coverage alone.
The Quarterly Review of Biology, USA

The first volume of this ambitious project was received with universally enthusiastic reviews: rarely, it was said, does a book come up to and exceed expectations as this one did.
Birds (RSPB), UK

The publication of the first volume three years ago already demonstrated that this Handbook is one of the most essential ornithological publications, and not only of this decade. In order to describe it correctly, only superlatives can be used.
Der Falke, GERMANY