- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Collins; (Reissue) edition (2 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002198940
- ISBN-13: 978-0002198943
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 11.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Brilliantly organised guide ... beautiful, apparently infallible, so comprehensive and above all easy to use. The Sunday Times Superbly handy and comprehensive guide. The Observer
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Brilliantly organised guide … beautiful, apparently infallible, so comprehensive and above all easy to use. The Sunday Times
Superbly handy and comprehensive guide. The Observer
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Format:Paperback
I bought this to replace same given to me from fellow birder and worn out. I love this book. I use it every time I go abroad in Europe.
Format:Paperback
Great value for a secondhand book, this is one of the most comprehensive field guides I own, great for taking on holiday. But if you are looking for a garden bird book this contains too many species to allow quick I'd
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This is the 1995 edition of "Birds of Britain and Europe, with North Africa and the Middle East", the almost classical field guide to European birds, edited by Hermann Heinzel, Richard Fitter and John Parslow. The guide was originally published in 1972 (I actually have a Swedish translation of the original), and new editions have appeared on a semi-regular basis since. In 1995, the guide was so substantially revised, that it essentially became an entirely new book.
The guide covers a vast geographic area: Europe including the European part of Russia, North Africa, the Caucasus, and the Middle East north of Saudi Arabia and west of Teheran. It further covers the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. The breeding birds of East Greenland are also included, since they are all European birds. I honestly don't understand the point of covering such a vast and variegated area, but it sure is exciting with a field guide that can be used in both Khuzestan, Moscow, Lapland and the City of London! Twitching, anyone? The book covers both breeding species, migrants and rare vagrants. The ambition of the authors to cover all bird species found within "their" area has led them to include the Ostrich (because one Ostrich was washed downstream to Jordan from Saudi Arabia in 1966) and the Budgerigar (because they tend to escape from captivity). This may strike some people as ridiculous. Personally, I find it entertaining. Besides, it makes the book the easily most comprehensive field guide to European, North African and Middle Eastern birds. If you see a bird that's not included in this book, you are probably hallucinating!
"Birds of Britain and Europe" is published in paperback on water-resistant paper, and is easy to carry around. It illustrats over 800 species, all in color. The quality of the illustrations range from tolerable to good. The color plates and the text are on facing pages, and range maps are included. An absolute beginner may find the sheer number of species forbidding, and some of the illustrations too small. If so, I rather recommend a field guide covering a more restricted geographic area.
Personally, I think "Birds of Britain and Europe" is one of the better European birding guides. But no, don't take my word for it. I might be somewhat partial to Heinzel & Co, since I bought the original edition already as a kid, and have an unhealthy obsession with vagrants, hybrids and implanted species, LOL. If you're really interested in European birds and bird-watching, you might as well invest in both this book, Svensson's "Complete guide to the birds of Europe" and Jonsson's "Birds of Europe".
The Washed Down Ostrich fan club, over and out.
The guide covers a vast geographic area: Europe including the European part of Russia, North Africa, the Caucasus, and the Middle East north of Saudi Arabia and west of Teheran. It further covers the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. The breeding birds of East Greenland are also included, since they are all European birds. I honestly don't understand the point of covering such a vast and variegated area, but it sure is exciting with a field guide that can be used in both Khuzestan, Moscow, Lapland and the City of London! Twitching, anyone? The book covers both breeding species, migrants and rare vagrants. The ambition of the authors to cover all bird species found within "their" area has led them to include the Ostrich (because one Ostrich was washed downstream to Jordan from Saudi Arabia in 1966) and the Budgerigar (because they tend to escape from captivity). This may strike some people as ridiculous. Personally, I find it entertaining. Besides, it makes the book the easily most comprehensive field guide to European, North African and Middle Eastern birds. If you see a bird that's not included in this book, you are probably hallucinating!
"Birds of Britain and Europe" is published in paperback on water-resistant paper, and is easy to carry around. It illustrats over 800 species, all in color. The quality of the illustrations range from tolerable to good. The color plates and the text are on facing pages, and range maps are included. An absolute beginner may find the sheer number of species forbidding, and some of the illustrations too small. If so, I rather recommend a field guide covering a more restricted geographic area.
Personally, I think "Birds of Britain and Europe" is one of the better European birding guides. But no, don't take my word for it. I might be somewhat partial to Heinzel & Co, since I bought the original edition already as a kid, and have an unhealthy obsession with vagrants, hybrids and implanted species, LOL. If you're really interested in European birds and bird-watching, you might as well invest in both this book, Svensson's "Complete guide to the birds of Europe" and Jonsson's "Birds of Europe".
The Washed Down Ostrich fan club, over and out.
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An average guide
I'm a Turkish boy, ý have got this book but its Turkish version named not Birds of Britain and Europe, Turkey and Europe. Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2009
collins birds of britain & europe
Collins Complete Guide to British Birds: A Photographic guide to Every Common SpeciesAn excellent and detailed book,far superior to the average pocket guide which seem to omit so... Read more
Published on 20 April 2009 by Mr. Dg Wood
Warning- not all of the Middle East included
I bought this book exclusively for Middle East coverage and am very disappointed. None of the pre-buy book descriptions define the coverage of "Middle East". Read more
Published on 23 May 2003 by Marie Schatz
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