Third in the series, it completes the non-passerines. It deals with the Orders Psittaciformes, Musophagiformes, Cuculiformes, Strigiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Apodiformes, Coliiformes, Coraciifromes and Piciformes. As with the previous volume, the colour plates are all by Martin Woodcock. Again the line drawings are by Ian Willis and acoustic references by Claude Chapuis.