Collins Bird GuideFollowing on from its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide -- the ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts -- is now available in a lavish large format edition. With expanded text and even larger colour illustrations, this guide covers every species and every plumage you will see, with detailed information on identification, habitat and voice. A must for every birdwatcher. The book provides all the information needed to identify any species at any time of the year, covering size, habitat, range, identification and voice. Accompanying every species entry is a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all the major plumages (male, female, immature, in flight, at rest, feeding: whatever is important). In addition, each group of birds includes an introduction which covers the major problems involved in identifying or observing them: how to organise a sea watching trip, how to separate birds of prey in flight, which duck hybrids can be confused with which main species. These and many other common birdwatching questions are answered. The combination of definitive text, up-to-date distribution maps and superb illustrations, all in a single volume, makes |
Contents
Preface | 6 |
Sandpipers stints curlews snipes et al | 138 |
Vagrant waders | 152 |
Copyright | |
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Other editions - View all
Collins Bird Guide Lars Svensson,Peter James Grant,Killian Mullarney,Dan Zetterström No preview available - 2001 |
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1st-summer 1st-winter Adult summer Adult winter Africa autumn band barred belly bill birds Black-headed Gull blackish blue-grey breast Breeds Britain & Ireland broad brown brown-grey buff Bunting colour Common Buzzard crown dark grey darker diffuse distinct Dunlin Europe eye-ring feathers flanks flight Flight-call flight-feathers flocks forehead forest greater coverts grey-brown greyish ground Gull head Identification insects Juvenile lacks legs Little Stint mainly Meadow Pipit migration moult nape narrow nasal neck Nests notes paler patch pattern perch pink Pipit Plover plumage red-brown Reed Reed Warbler remiges rufous rump Sandpiper Sandwich Tern scapulars short shorter similar slightly smaller Song species spots Steppe Eagle Storm-petrel streaked stripe Summer visitor supercilium taiga tail tail-feathers Tern tertials throat tinged tips trees Tufted Duck underparts undertail-coverts upper upperparts usually Voice Call Voice Song Warbler Wheatear whistle white wing-bars whitish wing-coverts wing-tip wingbeats wings Wood Sandpiper yellow yellowish