Europe's Birds : : An Identification Guide / / Andy Swash, Robert Still, Rob Hume, Hugh Harrop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Hume, Rob,; Still, Robert,; Swash, Andy,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: WILDGuides ; 37
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.) :; 4,700 color photos + 540 maps

The most comprehensive single-volume photographic guide to Europe’s birds ever produced—from the authors of the acclaimed Britain’s BirdsCovering more than 900 species, and illustrated with over 3,800 photographs, this is the most comprehensive, authoritative and ambitious single-volume photographic...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• How to use this book
• The parts of a bird
• Ageing, sexing and moult
• The species accounts
• The types of bird
• Wildfowl
• Grebes, divers and cormorants
• Seabirds
• Gulls and terns
• Skuas
• Waders .
• Large waterside birds
• Crakes and rails
• Galliforms (quails, partridges, francolins, pheasants and grouse) . Buttonquail
• Bustards
• Pigeons and doves
• Sandgrouse
• Nightjars
• Owls
• Birds of prey
• Cuckoos, kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers and hoopoes
• Woodpeckers
• Aerial feeders (swifts, swallows and martins)
• Larks, pipits and wagtails
• Wrens
• Accentors
• Orioles . Waxwings
• Starlings
• Dippers
• Babblers . Bulbuls
• Thrushes, chats, wheatears and Hypocolius
• Warblers, crests, cisticolas and prinias
• Flycatchers
• Nuthatches, treecreepers and Wallcreeper
• Tits
• Shrikes
• Corvids (jays, crows, nutcrackers and magpies)
• Finches and sparrows
• Buntings
• Endemic landbirds of the Atlantic islands
• Vagrant birds in Europe
• Established introductions
• The status and conservation of Europe’s birds
• Sources of further information
• Acknowledgements and photographers
• Index