Product Description

This guide covers all but a few of the Western Palearctic's breeding birds, and includes information on all regularly encountered vagrants. It has over 400 colour plates and, with distribution maps and illustrations on facing pages, it is practically designed and easy to use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45186 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

About the Author
Lars Jonsson is a globally renowned and respected ornithologist, with numerous identification papers and several books to his credit. He is best known as the leading bird illustrator of our time.

Customer Reviews

A "must have" for bird lovers - just for the plates
This is a perfectly viable field guide to the birds of Europe and, if it weren't for the existence of the Collins Guide, it could easily be a top recommendation. One thing marks this book apart from other field guides though: the illustrations are so beautiful that they might have been painted for art's sake alone. I have been fascinated by Jonsson's gulls and shorebirds from an earlier series published by habitat and now to have all the birds together is just wonderful. His paintings capture the "jizz" of the bird better than those of any other artist I know. This book will give great aesthetic pleasure long before (and after) one gets it into the field.

Birds of Europe
Very good book excellent price if anyone has an interest in birding, a must for your collection

he best
If you want to know what you are loking at and you are anywhere in europe this is the daddy! ! easy to identify , well laid out, go for it.