The Helm Guide to Bird Identification by Vinicombe, Keith -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction How to use this Book Short Cuts to Identification Glossary Topographical Tips Moult and Ageing SPECIES Wildfowl

Whooper and Bewick’s Swans Grey geese Snow and Ross’s Geese Cackling and Canada Geese Brent Geese Mandarin and Wood Ducks Eurasian and American Wigeons Large dabbling ducks in late summer and autumn: Mallard, Gadwall, Pintail and Shoveler Small dabbling ducks: Common, Green-winged, Cinnamon 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 Seabirds

Cory’s and Great Shearwaters Manx, Balearic and Sooty Shearwaters Storm, Leach’s and Wilson’s Petrels

Grebes

Slavonian, Black-necked and Red-necked Grebes

Herons

Bittern and Night Heron Purple Heron Egrets

Cormorant and Shag BIRDS OF PREY

Red and Black Kites Hen, Montagu’s, Pallid and Northern Harriers Goshawk and Sparrowhawk Common, Rough-legged and Honey Buzzards Golden and White-tailed Eagles Falcons: Peregrine, Merlin, Hobby and Red-footed Falcon

Waders

Ringed, Little Ringed and Kentish Plovers Large plovers: Grey, European Golden, American Golden and Pacific Golden Plovers, and Dotterel Little and Temminck’s Stints and Sanderling The rare stints: Semipalmated, Western and Least Sandpipers, and Red-necked and Long-toed Stints White-rumped and Baird’s Sandpipers Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper and Knot Ruff, Buff-breasted and Pectoral Sandpipers Common, Jack and Great Snipes Godwits Curlew and Whimbrel Common and Spotted Sandpipers Green and Wood Sandpipers Common and Spotted Redshanks, Greenshank and Marsh Sandpiper Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs Phalaropes

Skuas, Gulls and Terns

Arctic, Pomarine and Long-tailed Skuas Immature Kittiwake and 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 Sandwich and Gull-billed Terns Marsh terns: Black, White-winged Black, Whiskered and American Black Terns Common, Arctic and Roseate Terns

Auks Pigeons and Doves Owls

Long-eared and Short-eared Owls Common, Alpine and Pallid Swifts

Shrikes

Red-backed, Daurian, Turkestan, Brown, Woodchat and Masked Shrikes Great Grey, Lesser Grey and Steppe Grey Shrikes

Crows

Crows: Carrion Crow, Rook, Raven, Jackdaw and Chough

Marsh and Willow Tits Larks and Swallows

Skylark, Woodlark and Short-toed Lark Red-rumped Swallow

Warblers

Cetti’s Warbler Locustella warblers: Grasshopper, Savi’s and River Warblers Greenish and Arctic Warblers Dusky and Radde’s Warblers Yellow-browed, Hume’s and Pallas’s Warblers Goldcrest and Firecrest Wood Warbler and Western and Eastern Bonelli’s Warblers Willow Warbler and the chiffchaffs Aquatic Warbler Unstreaked Acrocephalus warblers Iduna warblers: Eastern, Booted, Sykes’s and Olivaceous Warblers Hippolais warblers: Melodious and Icterine Warblers Sylvia warblers: Common and Lesser Whitethroats and Subalpine, Moltoni’s, Garden and Barred Warblers

Thrushes and Chats

Rose-coloured Starling Ring Ouzel and Blackbird Song and Mistle Thrushes Common and Thrush Nightingales Common and Black Redstarts European and Eastern Stonechats and Whinchat

Sparrows

House and Tree Sparrows

Wagtails and Pipits

Grey, Yellow, Eastern Yellow and Citrine Wagtails Pied and White Wagtails Richard’s, Tawny and Blyth’s Pipits Small pipits: Meadow, Tree, Red-throated, Olive-backed and Pechora Pipits Rock, Water and Buff-bellied Pipits

Finches And Buntings

Green finches: Greenfinch, Siskin and Serin Brown finches: 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

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