Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the MaldivesBloomsbury Publishing, 16 maj 2019 - 528 A field guide to all the bird species found in India, Pakistian, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. This comprehensive and definitive guide is the successor to the bestselling Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by the same authors. 1375 species are illustrated and described, including all residents, migrants and vagrants. The plates, text and maps have been extensively revised. The 226 colour plates face concise descriptions and maps for quick at-a-glance reference. Many of the plates, depicting every species and many distinct plumages and races, have been repainted for this edition and a number of new species added. This guide also provides tables, summarising identification features of particularly difficult groups such as nightjars, warblers and rosefinches. This is the ideal companion for anyone birding in the region. |
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0:00 Widespread resident Adult breeding Andamans band Bangladesh Bee-eater belly bill birds blackish breast breast-band broadleaved forest browner buff buffish chestnut cm Resident collar contrasting coverts Crake crest crown and nape Cuckoo dark brown darker duller Eagle ear-coverts Eurasian feeding female flanks flight feathers forehead Frigatebird fringes Globally threatened grassland green greyish head and neck HH Forest HH Open Himalayas Hornbill ID Adult ID Male Immature India and Bangladesh lacks legs loud mainly Maldives mantle marshes morph Nepal Nicobars non-br non-breeding Pakistan pale paler passerines patch Pigeon Plate plumage primaries prominent remiges rufous rufous-brown rufous-buff rump scapulars scrub smaller species spotting Sri Lanka streaking subcontinent supercilium tail feathers Tern tertials throat TN Formerly placed Tragopan trailing edge Treepie underparts undertail-coverts underwing underwing-coverts unrecorded upperparts upperwing Voice Call Voice Song Western Ghats whistle whitish Widespread winter visitor wing-coverts wings Woodpecker yellow yellowish