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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hume, Rob (Autor), Harrop, Hugh (Autor), Swash, Andy (Autor), Still, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2021
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