Europe's Birds : An Identification Guide /
Covering more than 900 species, and illustrated with 4,700 photographs, Europe's Birds is the most comprehensive, authoritative and ambitious single-volume photographic guide to Europe's birds ever produced. Easy-to-use, practical and accessible, this guide provides the information necessa...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2021
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 warerside 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 wallcreepers
- 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 CONSERVATION OF EUROPE'S BIRDS