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The only comprehensive, full-color, pocket-sized guide to significant British and Northern European birds. This completely new edition of the best pocket-sized bird guide around uses both photography and original artwork to provide a practical and attractive identification guide. Collins Gem Birds has easy-to-use identification details linked to full-color illustrations for over 200 European species, covering all those that most birdwatchers could expect to see in a lifetime. Each bird entry includes notes on ...

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The only comprehensive, full-color, pocket-sized guide to significant British and Northern European birds. This completely new edition of the best pocket-sized bird guide around uses both photography and original artwork to provide a practical and attractive identification guide. Collins Gem Birds has easy-to-use identification details linked to full-color illustrations for over 200 European species, covering all those that most birdwatchers could expect to see in a lifetime. Each bird entry includes notes on appearance, color and distinctive features, and information on juveniles, range and habitat, nests, call, and breeding sites. In addition, an introduction covers general information on plumage, habitats, and migration, and gives first-time birdwatchers advice on what equipment to buy and where to go to spot the most desirable species.

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Children's Literature - Joan Elste
This creative reference book about birds in the "Facts at your Fingertips" series will definitely hold the readers attention with the necessary information it describes, covering everything one needs to know about the nature and essence of each bird. The illustrations are beautifully executed by widely known wildlife illustrators. There are small silhouettes depicting size by comparison to a foot or a human being, making the text even more interesting. The small maps under each species along the bottom of the pages are too small to actually be of much help to the reader. The text, also a bit small, covers details of each birds' natural environment and many facts the reader would need to know, from diet and nesting to extinction. Each bird basically fits the same format but that in itself makes for a good reference book for kids. Information is easy to look up for comparing species. Reviewer: Joan Elste
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780007178605
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/28/2004
  • Series: Collins Gem
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 3.20 (w) x 4.60 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Table of Contents


Introduction     4
Groundbirds
Ostrich Emu     6
Common Rhea Brown Kiwi     7
Northern Bobwhite Indian Peafowl     8
Common Pheasant Sage Grouse     9
Common Turkey Mallee Fowl     10
Seabirds and Shorebirds
Emperor Penguin Rockhopper Penguin     11
Wandering Albatross Northern Fulmar     12
Brown Pelican Northern Gannet     13
White-Tailed Tropicbird Herring Gull     14
Arctic Tern Great Skua     15
Black Skimmer Atlantic Puffin     16
Black Guillemot Ringed Plover     17
Lapwing Spoon-Billed Sandpiper     18
Snipe Knot     19
Pied Avocet Eurasian Oystercatcher     20
Waterbirds
Common Loon Great Crested Grebe     21
Gray Heron American Bittern     22
Wood Stork Greater Flamingo     23
Mute Swan Canada Goose     24
Mallard Mandarin Duck     25
King Eider Whooping Crane     26
Common Moorhen Great Bustard     27
Birds of Prey
Osprey Peregrine Falcon     28
Everglade Kite Bald Eagle     29
Northern Goshawk Golden Eagle     30
Lammergeier Turkey Vulture     31
California Condor Secretary Bird     32
Snowy Owl Barn Owl     33
Parrots
Budgerigar Scarlet Macaw     34
Kea Cockatiel     35
Woodpeckers and Toucans
Pileated Woodpecker Green Woodpecker     36
Keel-Billed Toucan Toucan Barbet     37
Miscellaneous Groups
Rock Dove Common Cuckoo     38
Hoatzin Resplendent Quetzal     39
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Eurasian Swift     40
Whippoorwill European Bee-Eater     41
Hoopoe Great Indian Hornbill     42
Belted Kingfisher European Roller     43
Songbirds
Indian Pitta Vermilion Flycatcher     44
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock Superb Lyrebird     45
Satin Bowerbird Superb Fairy-Wren     46
Red-Eyed Vireo Blue Jay     47
Common Raven Eurasian Magpie     48
Eurasian Jay Raggiana Bird of Paradise     49
Australian Magpie Bohemian Waxwing     50
American Dipper European Robin     51
American Robin Eastern Bluebird     52
European Starling Hill Myna     53
Northern Mockingbird Common Treecreeper     54
Winter Wren Black-Capped Chickadee     55
Long-Tailed Tit Barn Swallow      56
Skylark Horned Lark     57
Gouldian Finch Java Sparrow     58
House Sparrow Chaffinch     50
American Goldfinch Snow Bunting     60
American Redstart Baltimore Oriole     61
Glossary     62
Further Reading/Web Sites     63
Index     64
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