Jim Flegg's Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

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A fascinating and challenging activity, birdwatching offers limitless variety and scope all year round. This comprehensive guide identifies, describes and illustrates over 430 bird species - almost all the birds likely to be encountered in Britain and Europe even in a lifetime of birdwatching.
The concise, authoritative text provides full details of the birds' distinctive features and plumage, behaviour, calls and songs, and habitats. Superb colour photographs show each bird in typical stance, while the many additional illustrations depict plumage variations and birds in flight or at the nest. Innovative features have been included to make the guide incomparable for ease of use. The striking design incorporates text and pictures on facing pages; clear graphic diagrams indicate seasonal abundance; colour-coded maps distinguish the areas where birds are found at certain times of the year; and specially created habitat symbols show at a glance in which types of terrain individual... Tovább

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A fascinating and challenging activity, birdwatching offers limitless variety and scope all year round. This comprehensive guide identifies, describes and illustrates over 430 bird species - almost all the birds likely to be encountered in Britain and Europe even in a lifetime of birdwatching.
The concise, authoritative text provides full details of the birds' distinctive features and plumage, behaviour, calls and songs, and habitats. Superb colour photographs show each bird in typical stance, while the many additional illustrations depict plumage variations and birds in flight or at the nest. Innovative features have been included to make the guide incomparable for ease of use. The striking design incorporates text and pictures on facing pages; clear graphic diagrams indicate seasonal abundance; colour-coded maps distinguish the areas where birds are found at certain times of the year; and specially created habitat symbols show at a glance in which types of terrain individual species are most likely to be seen.
The extensive introduction contains a wealth of information on bird biology and the major types of habitat and an extensive account of bird families and their different characteristics. An equally detailed section on the practicalities of birdwatching offers the watcher much advice on fieldcraft and equipment, and reflects the author's concern for the protection and conservation of birds and the need to put their interests first at all times.
With its comprehensive coverage and eminently practical layout, Jim Flegg's Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe is the ideal companion for every birdwatcher. It will prove an invaluable aid in the field and a lasting source of information and inspiration for the armchair ornithologist.
Jim Flegg has been a committed birdwatcher since his youth. Born in Hong Kong and brought up partly in Australia, he is now based in Britain but continues to travel the world in pursuit of ornithological activities. A past Director of the British Trust for Ornithology, he has also served on the Councils of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the British Ornithologists' Union and the Research Committee of the Wildfowl Trust; he is currently President of the Kent Ornithological Society. He broadcasts regularly on both radio and television on the countryside, conservation and birdlife, including seabirds and woodland and farmland birds, in which he is especially interested. His publications include over 70 scientific papers and some 20 books.
Eric Hosking recently celebrated both his 80th birthday and 60 years of wildlife photography The recipient of numerous awards for his outstanding work, including an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Fellowship of the British Institute of Professional Photographers and the Royai Geographical Society Cherry Kearton Medal and Award, he is currently a Vice President of both the British Naturalists' Association and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Through his work with his father and his training at the Plymouth College of Art and Design, David Hosking has developed his own unique style of natural history photography He is also a Vice President of the British Naturalists' Association as well as a director of his own tour company which specializes in photographic and ornithological expeditions and holidays.
ISBN 1-85368-080-X
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