Product Description
Swooping hawks and graceful swans; long-legged flamingos; cooing pigeons and calling cuckoos; woodpeckers, starlings, sparrows, and waxwings: over 600 species of bird, from sharp-billed buzzards to doves of peace, "fly" through these pages in exquisite artwork. It's a boon for bird-watchers, who will find the process of identification greatly simplified; they'll also get strategies to improve their chances of sighting that rare bird. Entries include information on breeding sites, migration, appearance, size, flight formation, and other notable features.
About the Author
Bertel Bruun has travelled widely as a field ornathologist. He devised and co-authored the very successful field guide Birds of North America. Location: New York, USA Hakan Delin is regarded as one of the best field ornathologists in Sweden and is a highly accomplished bird artist. Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Lars Svensson is author of the identification Guide to European Passerines and several papers on bird identification. He formed the Swedish Rarities Committee. Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Arthur Singer was one of the world's most successful bird artists. He died in 1990.
