Warblers of Europe, Asia and North AfricaA&C Black, 30 cze 2010 - 360 Many warblers are notoriously difficult to identify in the field (and even in the hand!) and, until now, there has been no definitive guide to the species of these regions. This guide covers 145 species, covering all aspects of identification. The text includes sections on moult, voice, habitat and behaviour, distribution and measurements. All species (and many races) are illustrated within the 48 colour plates, and there is also a colour distribution map for each species, with a wealth of line drawings complementing the text. Many groups and species of warbler, such as prinias and tailorbirds, have never been described or illustrated in this detail before. Moreover, the book covers recently described series new to science and brings up to date the latest thinking on taxonomic treatment. |
Spis treści
Introduction | 9 |
Acknowledgements | 10 |
About the book | 11 |
General notes on warblers and their relationships | 16 |
Warbler topography | 18 |
Identifying warblers | 20 |
Colour plates and distribution maps | 23 |
Species accounts | 121 |
TREE WARBLERS | 197 |
CISTICOLAS | 210 |
PRINIAS | 220 |
TAILORBIRDS | 244 |
LEAFWARBLERS | 252 |
FLYCATCHERWARBLERS | 322 |
SYLVIA WARBLERS | 336 |
GOLDCRESTS | 383 |
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1st-winter Adult male Arctic Warbler bill birds blackish Booted Warbler breast and flanks breeding browner buffish Burma Bush Warbler Call note Chiffchaff China colour dark brown darker dull ear-coverts eastern edges eyering eyestripe feathers and tail flight feathers forests fresh and unabraded fresh plumage Grasshopper Warbler greater coverts Greenish Warbler grey-brown greyer greyish HABITAT HABITAT AND BEHAVIOUR IDENTIFICATION Length India lateral crown stripes Leaf Warbler legs less Lesser Whitethroat lores lower mandible mandible mantle Marsh Warbler MEASUREMENTS Wing median crown stripe migration moult nape Nepal nominate non-breeding northern off-white olive olive-brown olive-green outer webs pale buff paler Phylloscopus pre-breeding moult primary coverts Prinia Reed Warbler rufous rump and uppertail-coverts Sardinian Warbler scrub sides of breast Similar to adult slightly song southern species streaking subspecies suffusion supercilium tail feathers tertials throat tinge Underparts Underparts whiter undertail-coverts upperparts VOICE Song western whitish Willow Warbler wing-coverts wingbar winter worn plumage yellow yellowish