{"id":23781,"date":"2017-03-09T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23781"},"modified":"2017-03-09T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:29:26","slug":"birds-of-europe-north-africa-and-the-middle-east-new-field-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/birds-of-europe-north-africa-and-the-middle-east-new-field-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: New Field Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got my copy of Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: A Photographic Guide<\/a>\"\" by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jiguet and Aur\u00e9lien Audevard.<\/p>\n

This is the first and only field-ready photographic bird guide that covers every species in Europe. There are 2,200 photos covering 860 species. The West Asian and North African coverage is of all of the species there that have occurred in Europe, so think of this primarily as a European guide.<\/p>\n

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The entry for the Mute Swan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>I hasten to add and emphasize. These are not your grandaddy’s photographs. Many photographic guides have pretty nice looking photographs that show a bird, but then, when you go look up the bird you saw, you quickly discover that many of the best guides (such as this one) are not photographic, but rather, follow the Peterson\/Pedrides tradition of drawings designed to help in identification. Jiguet and Aedevard use photographs that are then enhanced and set in a non-photographic background or matrix, so they end up looking, and acting, a lot more like the drawings. This means that key features are indicated and notated.<\/p>\n

Critically important in this guide is the ratio between the above mentioned numbers. For every species, there are potentially several photographs. Sometimes, it is male and female. Some other morphological categories are illustrated. For some birds, especially raptors, there may be numerous views in flight.<\/p>\n

The amount of information give per bird is minimal (this is a field guid) and the range maps are classic style and well done. Some books have dozens of pages of front matter, but this book has almost none. Other than the index and credits, there is no back matter. Yet, the book is well over 400 pages long. That’s a lot of birds in one book. If you want a European bird guide for the field, this is the one<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

About the authors:<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jiguet is one of France’s leading ornithologists and a conservation biologist at the Mus\u00e9um National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is director of the Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d’Oiseaux (CRBPO), and serves on the editorial board of France’s premier bird-study journal, Ornithos. Aur\u00e9lien Audevard has been studying birds for much of his life and has conducted several high-profile conservation studies for the Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux, Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d’Azur (LPO PACA). His photographs have appeared in many of Europe’s leading birding magazines, including Ornithos, L’Oiseaux, Birding World, and Dutch Birding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TABLE OF CONTENTS:<\/p>\n

Introduction 6
\nSpecies descriptions 12
\nSwans 12
\nGeese 14
\nShelducks 21
\nDabbling ducks 22
\nWhistling ducks 28
\nDiving ducks 28
\nSea ducks 34
\nStifftails 41
\nVagrant and exotic ducks 42
\nGamebirds 45
\nDivers (Loons) 55
\nGrebes 58
\nShearwaters and petrels 61
\nStorm-petrels 66
\nRare petrels and albatrosses 67
\nFrigatebirds 75
\nTropicbirds 76
\nGannets and boobies 77
\nPelicans 80
\nCormorants 81
\nHerons, bitterns and egrets 83
\nStorks 93
\nSpoonbills and ibises 94
\nSpoonbills and storks 96
\nFlamingos 97
\nHoney-buzzards 99
\nBuzzards 101
\nSnake eagles 105
\nKites 106
\nVultures 108
\nHarriers 113
\nEagles 117
\nOsprey and Black-shouldered Kite 126
\nAccipiters 127
\nFalcons 129
\nRails, crakes and gallinules 137
\nCranes 143
\nBustards 145
\nOystercatcher and Turnstone 148
\nStilts and avocets 149
\nStone-curlews and coursers 150
\nPratincoles 151
\nPlovers and lapwings 153
\nSandpipers 162
\nWoodcocks and snipes 173
\nDowitchers and Upland Sandpiper 176
\nGodwits 177
\nCurlews 178
\nLarger sandpipers 180
\nPhalaropes 185
\nSkuas (Jaegers) 187
\nGulls 190
\nTerns 211
\nAuks 222
\nSandgrouse 227
\nPigeons and doves 229
\nParakeets 234
\nCuckoos 235
\nOwls 238
\nNightjars 246
\nSwifts 248
\nContents
\nKingfishers 251
\nRollers 253
\nBee-eaters 254
\nHoopoe 255
\nWoodpeckers 256
\nLarks 262
\nSwallows and martins 269
\nPipits 274
\nWagtails 279
\nAccentors 284
\nWren and Dipper 286
\nRobins and chats 287
\nRedstarts 291
\nStonechats 295
\nWheatears 298
\nRock thrushes 303
\nThrushes 304
\nBush warblers and cisticolas 311
\nGrasshopper warblers 312
\nReed warblers 315
\nTree warblers 320
\nSylvia warblers 324
\nLeaf warblers 333
\nCrests 341
\nOld World flycatchers 343
\nTyrant flycatchers 348
\nPenduline tit and leiothrix 350
\nReedling and parrotbill 351
\nLong-tailed tit 352
\nTits 353
\nNuthatches 358
\nTreecreepers 360
\nWallcreeper and Golden Oriole 361
\nShrikes 362
\nCrows and jays 370
\nStarlings 377
\nWaxwings 379
\nBulbuls and mynas 381
\nSparrows 382
\nIntroduced exotic finches 386
\nFinches 389
\nBuntings 404
\nVagrant Nearctic passerines 417
\nNew World warblers 433
\nIndex 434
\nPhotographic credits 444<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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