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The Helm Guide to Bird Identification
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Description
An essential field-guide companion covering the sternest challenges in bird identification.
This guide book by tackles difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features.
Designed as a field companion for British and European birding, it supplements the standard field guides and provides much additional information. As well as detailed texts, the book includes extensive illustrations by Alan Harris of all relevant ages and plumages of the species concerned.
This is an essential supplement to regular field guides for anyone looking to improve their field identification skills, focusing on the confusion species that can otherwise challenge any birdwatcher.
Product details
| Published | 27 Mar 2014 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 400 |
| ISBN | 9781408130353 |
| Imprint | Helm |
| Illustrations | Colour artworks throughout |
| Dimensions | 216 x 140 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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...a godsend to anyone wanting to tell a bar-tailed from a black-tailed godwit, a firecrest from a goldcrest or a greenfinch from a siskin.
Daily Express
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...a helpful new book. ...It is carefully detailed but it is also agreeably written.
The Times
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It does exactly as it says on the cover...a fine book.
Sunday Express
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This is an indispensable addition to your library.
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