The handbook of bird identification
Subtitle: for Europe and the western Palearctic
By: Mark Beaman and Steve Madge.
Contributors: Madge, Steve.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 868
Subjects: Birds -- Europe -- Identification.; Birds -- Africa, North -- Identification.; Birds -- Middle East -- Identification.
Description: "Drawing on their unrivaled field experience in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, authors Mark Beaman and Steve Madge have combined forces with some of Europe's finest bird artists to produce the region's most comprehensive guide ever. This is the first book to cover every species to have occurred in this region, including vagrants and accidentals - nearly nine hundred species in total. Color illustrations depict each bird and its main plumage stages and subspecies. An extensive text explains all aspects of identification, status, and habitat, while full-color maps within the text offer detailed distributional information."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 851-852) and indexes.