The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: An In-depth Look at Confusion Species - Softcover

Keith Vinicombe

 
9781408130353: The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: An In-depth Look at Confusion Species

Synopsis

An essential field guide companion covering species pairs or groups that are difficult to identify.

This book covers difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features.

Designed as a field companion, it supplements the standard field guides and provides much additional information.

As well as detailed texts, the books include extensive illustrations of all relevant ages and plummages of the species concerned.

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About the Author

Keith Vinicombe is an ornithologist and bird identification expert. Keith has served on both the British Birds Rarities Committee and the BOU Records Committee; he is identification consultant to Birdwatch magazine, and has written extensively on bird identification in Birdwatch and other journals, including Birding World and British Birds.

Alan Harris has been a bird artist since 1980. His work includes a number of ground-breaking ornithological books, including Helm Identification Guides such as Sylvia Warblers, Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers and Finches and Sparrows, as well as contributions to field guides such as Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Birds of Japan and Birds of Argentina. Alan has been Art Consultant to British Birds magazine since 1988.

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