The Helm Guide to Bird Identification

Boka er basert på den nå nesten legendariske Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification publisert i 1993. Nå fullstendig revidert, grundig oppdatert og omarbeidet. Med mange nye iluustrasjoner, ekstra arter, større format og bedre design.

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(Beklager at navnene ikke er oversatt, men boka er uansett på engelsk..)

Whooper and Bewick's Swans,
Grey geese;
Snow and Ross's Geese;
Canada and Cackling Geese;
Brent Geese;
Mandarin and Wood Ducks;
Eurasian and American Wigeon;
Large dabbling ducks in late summer and autumn: Mallard, Gadwall, Pintail and Shoveler;
Small dabbling ducks: Common, Green-winged and Blue-winged Teals, and Garganey;
Aythya ducks: Greater and Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Ferruginous Duck and hybrids;
Eiders: females, immatures and eclipse males;
Scoters; Goosander and Red-breasted Merganser;
Divers;
Great and Cory's Shearwaters;
Manx, Balearic and Sooty Shearwaters;
Storm, Leach's and Wilson's Petrels;
Slavonian, Black-necked and Red-necked Grebes;
Bittern and Night Heron;
Purple Heron;
Egrets;
Cormorant and Shag;
Red and Black Kites;
Hen, Montagu's, Pallid and Northern Harriers;
Sparrowhawk and Goshawk;
Common, Rough-legged and Honey Buzzards;
Golden and White-tailed Eagles;
Falcons: Peregrine, Merlin, Hobby and Red-footed Falcon;
Ringed, Little Ringed and Kentish Plovers;
Large plovers: Grey, European Golden, American Golden and Pacific Golden Plovers, and Dotterel;
Little Stint, Temminck's Stints and Sanderling;
The rare stints: Semipalmated, Western and Least Sandpipers, and Red-necked and Long-toed Stints;
Baird's and White-rumped Sandpipers;
Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Knot;
Ruff, Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Pectoral Sandpiper;
Common, Jack and Great Snipe;
Godwits; Curlew and Whimbrel; Common and Spotted Sandpipers;
Green and Wood Sandpipers;
Redshank, Spotted Redshank,
Greenshank and Marsh Sandpiper;
Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs;
Phalaropes;
Arctic, Pomarine and Long-tailed Skuas;
Kittiwake, Little and Sabine's Gulls;
Mediterranean Gull; Ring-billed Gull;
Herring, Lesser Black-backed and Great Black-backed Gulls;
Yellow-legged and Caspian Gulls;
Glaucous and Iceland Gulls;
Gull-billed and Sandwich Terns;
Marsh terns – Black, White-winged Black, American Black and Whiskered Terns;
Common, Arctic and Roseate Terns;
Auks;
Pigeons and doves;
Long-eared and Short-eared Owls;
Common, Pallid and Alpine Swifts;
Red-backed, Turkestan, Daurian, Brown, Woodchat and Masked Shrikes;
Great Grey, Lesser Grey and Steppe Grey Shrikes
Crows: Carrion Crow, Rook, Raven, Jackdaw and Chough;
Marsh and Willow Tits;
Skylark, Woodlark and Short-toed Lark;
Red-rumped Swallow;
Cetti's Warbler;
Greenish and Arctic Warblers;
Yellow-browed, Hume's and Pallas's Warblers;
Goldcrest and Firecrest;
Radde's and Dusky Warblers;
Wood Warbler, Western and Eastern Bonelli's Warblers;
Willow Warbler and the chiffchaffs;
Aquatic Warbler; Unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers;
Iduna warblers: Booted, Sykes's and Eastern Olivaceous Warblers;
Hippolais warblers: Melodious and Icterine Warblers;
Locustella warblers: Grasshopper, Savi's and River Warblers;
Sylvia warblers: Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Subalpine,
Garden and Barred Warblers;
Rose-coloured Starling;
Ring Ouzel and Blackbird;
Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush;
Common and Thrush Nightingales;
Common and Black Redstarts;
European Stonechat, Eastern Stonechat and Whinchat;
House and Tree Sparrows;
Grey, Yellow, Eastern Yellow and Citrine Wagtails;
Pied and White Wagtails;
Tawny, Richard's and Blyth's Pipits;
Small pipits: Meadow, Tree, Red-throated, Olive-backed and Pechora Pipits;
Rock, Water and Buff-bellied Pipits;
Green finches: Greenfinch, Siskin and Serin;
Linnet, Twite and Common Rosefinch;
Lesser, Mealy and Arctic Redpolls;
Common, Parrot, Scottish and Two-barred Crossbills;
Cirl Bunting and Yellowhammer;
Reed, Little, Rustic and Lapland Buntings