num_pages: 1136
description: The species covered in this volume are described in terms of field characteristics habitats distribution mortality and longevity and population (with maps showing the breeding and wintering areas) social patterns and behavior breeding food voice plumage moults measurements weightand geographical variation. Included in volume five are flycatchers larks martins swallows pipits wagtails bulbuls waxwings wrens catbirds thrashers dunnocks nightingales rubythroats bluetails whinchats stonechats ant chats wheatears blackbirds ring ouzels fieldfares redwingsand thrushes. Professional and amateur ornithologists and zoologists interested in the fauna of the western Palearctic will find this handbook invaluable.
language: English
title: Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic Volume V: Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes
publisher: Oxford University Press