Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland (Poyser Monographs) by J.N Dymond,P.A Fraser,S.J.M Gantlett PDF

By J.N Dymond,P.A Fraser,S.J.M Gantlett

ISBN-10: 0856610534

ISBN-13: 9780856610530

This publication via a trio of rare-bird experts is a successor to 2 prior works (long out of print), Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and eire (Sharrock 1974 and infrequent Birds in Britain and eire (Sharrock 1976). It unifies either one of the sooner books and updates them, including greater than eighty species to the former total.The authors have analysed and thought of a few 45,000 documents of scarce and infrequent birds in Britain and eire for the interval 1958-85. severe rarities outdoors the interval are additionally indexed. they've got produced not just a ebook of serious fascination for those that savour rarities for his or her personal sake, yet person who deals precious details on altering styles of arrival that could point out adjustments of prestige of those birds inside of their breeding range.More than three hundred species money owed at the moment are integrated, so much of them followed by way of histograms of weekly and seasonal occurrences, with maps exhibiting distribution through counties in spring and autumn or at specific occasions of the yr. For rarities with twelve or fewer occurrences in the course of the interval 1958-85, where, date and different suitable info is given for every record.Every species is illustrated by way of a line drawing, extra than a hundred and fifty of them commissioned for this ebook, the rest being chosen from the 2 previous works.

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