| Founder | Ramon Mascort Amigó [ca],Jordi Sargatal [ca], andJosep del Hoyo [ca] |
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| Country of origin | Spain |
| Headquarters location | Cerdanyola del Vallès |
| Publication types | Books |
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| Official website | www |
Lynx Nature Books, based in Barcelona, is apublishing company specializing inornithology andnatural history.[1] The company was founded in 1989.[2] It was formerly namedLynx Edicions.
Lynx Nature Books was founded as Lynx Edicions inBarcelona byRamon Mascort Amigó [ca], a lawyer and collector;Jordi Sargatal [ca], a naturalist; andJosep del Hoyo [ca], a medical doctor and writer.[3] The company has been based in theBellaterra district ofCerdanyola del Vallès since 2002.
Lynx Nature Books 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 theanimal kingdom. A condensed, single-volume version of the series was published in 2020 asAll the Birds of the World.
Similarly, Lynx publishes theHandbook of the Mammals of the World, a nine-volume undertaking like the work on birds published between 2009 and 2019. An updated two-volume set with taxonomic revisions was released in 2020 as theIllustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World, and a condensed, single-volume version of the series was published in 2023 asAll the Mammals of the World.
Lynx, since 2018, has published field guides to birds of various regions;[3] andBirds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide, was published in collaboration with theSmithsonian Institution.
In 2002, as a complement to theHandbook of the Birds of the World, and with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's avifauna, 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.[4] 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.[4]
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