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The Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds Including North Africa

by Alan Harris, David A. Christie, Hadoram Shirihai
RM41.00 MYR
The Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds Including North Africa
The Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds Including North Africa

Essential guide to European/Middle Eastern avifauna.

If you're a birder who's ever found yourself squinting through binoculars, puzzling over whether you've spotted a lesser or greater something-or-other, this guide is your new companion. The illustrative approach that groups similar-looking species together and delineates their differences is vastly helpful. The detailed artwork adds both beauty and utility, ensuring you'll be more confident in your field identifications.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds Including North Africa

by Alan Harris, David A. Christie, Hadoram Shirihai
RM41.00 MYR
ISBN: 9780333589403
Authors: Alan Harris, David A. Christie, Hadoram Shirihai
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd
Date of Publication: 1996-04-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Nature, Science
Related Topics: Environment, Animals, Natural History, Biology, Nature
Goodreads rating: 4.5
(rated by 4 readers)

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The Macmillan Birder's Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds is designed to enable birdwatchers to distinguish between those rare birds that are often confused with a common species. This volume extends the range covered in Bird Identification (1989) to birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. There are 208 species illustrated in 90 plates. The book has been arranged around 70 'confusion' groups, which have been given enough space and illustration to explore the subject in depth. Handwritten captions highlight points of similarity and difference while the text incorporates the latest identification techniques. The comments on immature birds, sex differences, seasonal and race variations, calls, distribution, habitat and aberrant plumage and the extraordinary attention to detail will solve most of the identification problems faced by the enthusiastic birder.
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Essential guide to European/Middle Eastern avifauna.

If you're a birder who's ever found yourself squinting through binoculars, puzzling over whether you've spotted a lesser or greater something-or-other, this guide is your new companion. The illustrative approach that groups similar-looking species together and delineates their differences is vastly helpful. The detailed artwork adds both beauty and utility, ensuring you'll be more confident in your field identifications.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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