Britain's Birds : : An Identification Guide to the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland Second Edition, fully revised and updated.
A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide-the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Britain and IrelandA bestselling guide since it was first published, Britain's Birds has quickly established itself as the go-to photographic...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | WILDGuides ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (576 p.) :; 3,591 color photos. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- The parts of a bird
- How to use this book
- The species accounts
- The types of bird
- Wildfowl (swans, geese, ducks)
- Waterbirds (cormorants, divers, grebes and pelicans)
- Seabirds (Gannet, Fulmar, shearwaters, petrels)
- Auks (puffins, guillemots, Razorbill, murrelets)
- Gulls and terns
- Skuas
- Waders (plovers, sandpipers, curlews, godwits, snipe and related species)
- Crakes and rails (includes Moorhen, coots, gallinules)
- Large waterside birds (herons, bitterns, egrets, Spoonbill, cranes, storks, ibis)
- 'Gamebirds' (partridges, grouse, pheasants and Quail)
- Bustards
- Pigeons and doves
- Sandgrouse
- Owls and nightjars
- Birds of prey (eagles, kites, Osprey, buzzards, harriers, hawks, falcons and related species)
- Kingfishers, cuckoos, Hoopoe, bee-eaters, Roller and parrots
- Woodpeckers
- Aerial feeders (swifts, swallows, martins)
- Larks, pipits and wagtails
- Dipper, Wren, accentors, oriole, starlings and waxwings
- Thrushes, chats and wheatears
- Flycatchers
- Warblers, cisticola and crests
- Shrikes
- Tits, nuthatches and 'creepers'
- Corvids (crows, Jay, Magpie, Nutcracker)
- Sparrows and finches
- Buntings
- Vagrant landbirds from North America
- Birds of uncertain origin and escapes/introductions
- British & Irish Lists, status and legislation
- Acknowledgements and photo credits
- Identification and beyond
- Index
- Britain's Birds: a guide to the species accounts
- About the authors