Collins Bird Guide

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Including the characteristics of anatomy, life cycle, and behaviour, and provides a survey of the habitats in which birds live, this will appeal to all levels of birdwatchers and enthusiasts. Common birds are then identified using six descriptive groups: seabirds, waders, birds of prey, game birds, woodpeckers and other exotic-looking birds and passerine (perching) birds. Accompanying every species entry is a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all the major plumages (male, female, immature, in flight, at rest, feeding: whatever is important). Explore up-to-date, colour-coded maps highlighting resident and migratory distributions so you know which species of birds to expect when you are out and about.

It is the most complete photographic guide to British birds ever published and the only one to be designed to give everything that you need on each spread in a simple-to-use format. Explore up-to-date, colour-coded maps highlighting resident and migratory distributions so you know which species to expect when you are out and about.

Beautifully presented in a deluxe slipcase, this book contains more than 700 colour illustrations help to identify each bird, and distribution maps show where to see them and at what time of year. Similar developments in the understanding of the status of the region's birds are also reflected – for example, the discovery of breeding Saunders's Tern in Egypt in 2012 sees this species now included in the third edition. This is the most compact and concise guide to the 430 species of birds that live in or regularly visit Britain and the rest of Europe.

Also included is a foldout insert illustrating such topics as variations in plumage in flying birds of different species. An entry-level photographic identification guide to the commoner birds of Britain and Northern Europe. It would be a 5 Star app if it also offered these things which some other (even free) bird listing apps have. I appreciate what this guide tries to achieve, but it’s comprehensive approach makes it as a very complicated app to use which loses any sense of being intuitive.From the perspective of the British birder, updates to some of the terns, swifts, Old World flycatchers and finches are among the most relevant. They capture the excitement of the birds - the thing that anyone watching them closely would find most compelling: a black-tailed Godwit performing its balletic display, two Golden Eagles fighting in mid-air.