Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 1: Passerines: Larks to Warblers

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. Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 1 contains the most up-to-date information available on bird identification covering all aspects of plumage, moult, aging and sexing, with sections on voice and other identification criteria, and detailed taxonomic notes. The handbook is divided into two volumes. This first volume covers larks, hirundines, pipits and wagtails, bulbuls, accentors, robins, chats, wheatears, thrushes, prinias and cisticolas, and warblers. The exceptional text is backed up by a stunning collection of almost 2,500 photographs, featuring a comprehensive range of plumages that illustrate every race and morph of each species in the region. This 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. 0The passerines are divided into two volumes, with the first covering larks, hirundines, pipits and wagtails, bulbuls, accentors, robins, chats, wheatears, thrushes, prinias and cisticolas, and warblers, and the second covering flycatchers, reedlings, tits, nuthatches, orioles and sunbirds, shrikes, corvids, finches and buntings, along with extreme vagrants.0The text is backed up by a remarkable collection of more than 5,000 photographs, featuring a comprehensive range of plumages that illustrate every race and morph of each species in the region Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Layout and scope of the book Species taxonomy Subspecies Sequence Nomenclature Photographs Maps Species accounts Glossary and abbreviations Selected gazetteer An approach to moult and ageing birds in the field General references List of passerine families: traditional and new order A brief presentation of passerine families Species accounts Larks Swallows and martins Pipits and wagtails Bulbuls Waxwings and Hypcolius Dippers Wrens Accentors Robins and nightingales Redstarts Rock thrushes and chats Wheatears Thrushes Bush and reed warblers Sylvia warblers Phylloscopus warblers Crests Vagrants to the region Checklist of the birds of the Western Palearctic – passerines Photographic credits Indexes