Richard Porter, Oscar Campbell, Abdulrahman Al-Sirhan

Field Guide to Birds of the Middle East (eBook, ePUB)

Third Edition
Illustrator: Gale, John; Harris, Alan; Small, Brian; Langman, Mike

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The ultimate field guide to the birds of the Middle East, an indispensable companion for any traveller to the region

The Middle East - the region stretching from Cyprus and the Levant to Iran, including Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula, plus Socotra - has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else.

This authoritative book covers more than 895 species recorded in the Middle East, including details of all regular visitors and breeding species, from the Purple Sunbird to the Northern Bald Ibis. Featuring 180 stunning colour plates by three of the world's leading bird illustrators, this practical guide also includes concise species accounts describing key identification features, status, range, habitat and voice with fully updated distribution maps for each species.

Written by three of the leading lights in regional ornithology and conservation, this fully revised and expanded guide is an essential reference for any birder living in or visiting the Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399401975
• Artikelnr.: 70186389

Autorenporträt

Richard Porter has been involved with birds in the Middle East since 1966 and is an adviser on bird conservation for BirdLife International. He is the author or co-author of several books on the Middle East and the groundbreaking Flight Identification of European Raptors.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction
The region and species covered
Escapes and introduced birds
Sequence, taxonomy and nomenclature
Illustrations and identification text
Bird topography
Voice
Habitat
Maps and status
Code of conduct Species Accounts References and further reading Checklist of the birds of the Middle East Index