Eduardo de Juana,Ernest Garcia's The Birds of the Iberian Peninsula PDF

By Eduardo de Juana,Ernest Garcia

ISBN-10: 1408124807

ISBN-13: 9781408124802

The Iberian Peninsula is one among Europe's such a lot ornithologically diversified areas supplying a bunch of local specialities. It comprises well-known birding hotspots resembling the Coto Donaña wetlands, mountainous components equivalent to the Picos de Europa and the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean cork and holm oak forests of the southwest, the migration crossroads of the Strait of Gibraltar and the steppe-like plains of Extremadura and Alentejo. huge numbers of birders from round Europe stopover at the sector to determine this wealth of winged flora and fauna, yet up to now there was no finished nearby avifauna in English.

Birds of the Iberian Peninsula is a countrywide avifauna that fills this hole within the ornithological literature. Full-colour all through, the e-book starts off with authoritative introductory chapters masking matters similar to geography, weather, habitats, the historical past of Iberian ornithology and the composition of the avifauna. The species debts then disguise each species recorded in mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra, together with the various vagrants. for every species there's specified remedy of distribution – with maps of breeding and wintering levels – habitat choice, inhabitants developments, old and present prestige, migration and conservation.

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