num_pages: 956
description: This is eighth volume of an authoritative nine-volume reference work that covers birdlife in the whole of the Western Palearctic--including all of Europe as well as the Middle East to Turkey Iran and Jordan and part of Africa. Part Crows to Finches contains 73 comprehensive speciesdescriptions with sections devoted to field characteristics habitat distribution mortality population movements food social pattern and behavior breeding voice plumages moults measurements weights structure and geographical variation. Species Passeriformes Covidae Crows andallies Sturnidae Starlings Passiderae Sparrows Rock Sparrows Snow Finches Ploceidae Weavers and allies Estrildidae Waxbills Grassfinches Mannikens Vireonidae Vireos Fringillidae Finches and Carduelinae Typical Finches. Specially commissioned full-color plates show the full range of normalplumage together eggs and more distant flight views. Black-and-white illustrations and text-figures showing such features as display postures voice sonograms and melograms and annual cycles are included as well. With contributions from an internationally recognized team of experts the Handbookis an indispensable work of reference both for the professional scientist and for the ever-growing body of amateur ornithologists.
language: English
title: Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic Volume VIII: Crows to Finches
publisher: Oxford University Press