This edition has been completely revised and is presented with more than 800 full color images. It provides readers with a tool for life-long learning about birds and is suitable for bird watchers and ornithology students, as well as for ecologists, conservationists, and resource managers who work with birds. 730 p.

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Editor. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA).
• Irby J. Lovette, ed. Professor of Ornithology, Associate Director for Academic Affairs at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Director of the Lab's Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Curator of Genomics at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA).
• John W. Fitzpatrick, ed. Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Professor. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
  
   
• Publication dates: 2016-09 (print); 2016-07 (electronic format).