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Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
Description
This book is the ultimate flight-identification guide for the raptors of the Western Palaearctic, covering Europe, North Africa, the Middle East (including Arabia) to Central Asia.
Raptors are notoriously hard to identify, even if seen well, and represent perhaps the toughest of all ID challenges for birders.
This guide provides identification information for all 60 species that regularly occur in the region, to subspecific level. The text covers every plumage and age in detail, with each species account accompanied by a range of photographs covering all the principal plumages.
Based on this stunning photographic coverage, most of which has never been published before, this book represents a landmark in bird identification books and a major work for all raptor enthusiasts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Flight Identification of raptors
Plumage variations of raptors
Viewing conditions
Moult
Factors affecting flight
Previous experience
Topography
Glossary
Hawk-watching in and around Europe by Keith L. Bildstein and Anna Sandor
Migration ecology of raptors by Ian Newton
Species Accounts
References
Product details
| Published | 25 Feb 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 608 |
| ISBN | 9781472925558 |
| Imprint | Helm |
| Illustrations | 1100 colour photos |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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