Finches and Sparrows - Couverture rigide

Clement, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408135086 ISBN 13 : 9781408135082

Editeur : Helm, 2011

Synopsis

This is a guide to 'true' finches and sparrows illustrating all the species, many races and most sex and age variations, with almost 950 portraits.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Peter Clement is a lifelong and well-travelled birder and tour leader with a particular interest in wheatears and other chats. He is the author of several books including Finches and Sparrows, and Thrushes, both in the Helm Identification Guides series. He is a former member of the British Birds Rarities Committee, and is employed by English Nature, part of this work involving the designation of sites of international importance for birds.

Alan Harris has been a bird artist since 1980. His work includes a number of ground-breaking guides, notably the Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification, which became The Helm Guide to Bird Identification in its second edition. Alan has also illustrated several Helm ID Guides, including Sylvia Warblers, Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers and Finches and Sparrows, as well as contributing to field guides such as Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Birds of Japan and Birds of Argentina. He has been Art Consultant to British Birds magazine since 1988.

Alan has been a qualified bird ringer since 1976, and in 2024 celebrated 50 years of continuous study at Rye Meads in the Lee Valley, Hertfordshire. His conservation work in related projects include ringing gulls on the Thames Estuary landfill sites since 1993 with North Thames Gull Group, and as part of an international team to trap and trace the globally endangered Black-faced Spoonbill in Hong Kong.

John Davis is the illustrator of Green Guide to Garden Wildlife Of Britain And Europe and Finches and Sparrows.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Helm
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408135086
• ISBN 13: 9781408135082
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Harris Alan, Davis John
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible