Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 2: Passerines: Flycatchers to BuntingsBloomsbury Publishing, 27 sie 2018 - 656 The second volume in this incredible series on western palearctic birds. This unique and spectacular handbook is the most complete and comprehensive photographic guide to the passerines of the Western Palearctic. Written by two of the world's most respected ornithologists, Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson, it contains the most up-to-date information available on bird identification covering all aspects of plumage, moult, ageing and sexing, with sections on voice and other identification criteria, and detailed taxonomic notes. This second volume covers flycatchers, reedlings, tits, nuthatches, orioles and sunbirds, shrikes, corvids, finches and buntings, along with vagrants. The exceptional text is backed up by a remarkable collection of more than 2,500 photographs in this volume alone, featuring a comprehensive range of plumages that illustrate every race and morph of each species in the region. This stunning handbook will be the definitive reference for the region for years to come - no birder's shelf will be complete without it. |
Spis treści
31 | |
Vagrants to the region | 581 |
Checklist of the birds of the Western Palearctic passerines | 606 |
Photographic credits | 611 |
Indexes | 614 |
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Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 2: Passerines: Flycatchers to ... Lars Svensson,Hadoram Shirihai Ograniczony podgląd - 2018 |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
1stS 1stW 1stY AGEING & SEXING alula appear Arctic Redpoll autumn average belly bill BIOMETRICS birds blackish breeding brown brown-grey browner brownish buff Bunting chestnut colour Common Crossbill Complete post-nuptial moult crown dark darker differ dull duller ear-coverts edges Emarg equal and longest Eurasian Nuthatch extensive feathers flight Flycatcher fringes GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION gloss greater coverts grey Grey Shrike grey-brown greyish head pattern House Sparrow IDENTIFICATION Iran Kazakhstan lacking less mainly mantle Marsh Tit median coverts mm n moult limits nape narrow outer pale pink plumage pre-nuptial moult primary-coverts race Reed Bunting remiges retained juv rufous rump scapulars Shirihai Shrike Siberia SIMILAR SPECIES Spanish Sparrow Sparrow spring streaked subspecies subtly supercilium tail-feathers tertials throat tinged tips underparts unstreaked upperparts uppertail-coverts usually variable VARIATION & RANGE white primary patch whitish Willow Tit Wing formula wing-bars wing-coverts wing-feathers wings and tail winter worn yellow