Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422216 in Books
• Published on: 1991-11
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

Synopsis
When a new American warbler appeared in a supermarket car-park near Maidstone, within two days 3500 people came from all over the country just to see it. The news spreads by word-of-mouth, by telephone hot-lines and via the media. In the UK bird recognition is a national sport. This book provides a field guide to the rare birds of Britain and Europe - describing and illustrating them - with all the non-European species ever recorded in Britain and Europe featured.

Customer Reviews

One for the Twitcher

This book is 16 or so years old so it does not have the glossy photographs that modern bird books have, but it certainly makes up for this in its content. It is not a book for the casual observer of birds as it covers the more rare species of both Britain and Europe.

It is not inconceivable that one of the species that it covers will alight on your garden bird table one morning, but it is more likely that you will have to go and find them rather than them come to you. The book is extremely comprehensive in what it covers and the illustrations are top quality. I would suggest that it is a book for the serious ornithologist, or those who appreciate the beautiful illustrations in the book for their own sake.

Are you into rare birds in europe.
This is not a updated book, But under every species you wil find the info about former findings(nation, and numbers).
The drawings are in the higher end of the scale, and the indifications information is very good. I thinks this book need a place in every private liberary, at least as a supplement. for birders who like rare species and identification of rare species.