Together we will document and preserve audiovisual material for all the birds of the world. The immense and important collection that is the IBC now has a new home at the Macaulay Library, where it will be permanently preserved for future generations. The IBC collection held media for 96% of the world’s birds. Bird enthusiasts started adding their media to IBC to help preserve their personal media collection and to help the birdwatching and ornithological communities learn more about birds. The goals of the IBC were to document all of the world’s birds through videos, photos, or audio recordings and to capture as much geographic variation and behavior as possible for every species.
In 2002, del Hoyo and his team launched the Internet Bird Collection (IBC)-an online repository to house videos, photos, and audio recordings from the worldwide community of bird watchers. From 1989 to 2002, del Hoyo had amassed a large collection of audiovisual material, but he knew that a lot more material was needed. You have to remember the HBW project started before the internet really took off, making it more difficult to obtain audio visual material from people outside of his network. The Handbook of the Birds of the World, del Hoyo knew, would not be complete without audiovisual material to illustrate characteristics of each species, so he set out to take photos, audio recordings, and videos of as many species as he possibly could. The same year Lynx Edicions launched the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) project. Knowing that he would need help to complete such a monumental task, del Hoyo went in search of partners and co-editors and formed Lynx Edicions in 1989. “I wanted to possess such a treatise so badly,” del Hoyo said, so he decided he would build the most comprehensive book of the birds of the world.
Upon his return, del Hoyo scoured bookstores and libraries for such a definitive work but came up empty handed. “This was very frustrating to me,” said del Hoyo in an email, “because sometimes I was not able to identify species that I was seeing quite well, and other times I just could not be certain of my identifications.” Del Hoyo figured that he must have just gotten the wrong books, “for sure someone must have put together a comprehensive book,” said del Hoyo. But while in Africa, del Hoyo discovered that the books he purchased were sorely lacking many species were missing and what information was available lacked details. Little did he know, this trip would send him on another journey that would forever change the course of his life.īefore he left Barcelona, Spain, del Hoyo purchased several field guides to help him identify all the species he was hoping to see. In the early 1980s Josep del Hoyo, a doctor in a small village in Spain, decided to spend 13 months traveling around Africa to see as much wildlife as he could.
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