TY - BOOK ID - 142939656 TI - Flight identification of European passerines and select landbirds : an illustrated and photographic guide AU - Cofta, Tomasz AU - Skakuj, MichaĆ PY - 2021 SN - 0691177570 9780691177571 PB - Princeton: Princeton university press, DB - UniCat KW - Passeriformes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142939656 AB - A richly illustrated, state-of-the-art field guide for identifying European passerines in flight--the first of its kind. Opening up new frontiers in birdwatching, this is the first field guide to focus specifically on the identification of European passerines and related landbirds in flight. Showcasing 850 stunning and remarkably lifelike colour illustrations from acclaimed bird artist Tomasz Cofta, produced using the latest digital technology, backed up with more than 2,400 photographs carefully selected to show typical flight profiles, it provides detailed and unsurpassed coverage of 205 European passerines and 32 near-passerines. This cutting-edge book brings a new dimension to birdwatching, the concise and authoritative species accounts presenting novel yet essential information on the flight manner of individual birds and the structure and behaviour of flocks--features that are key to identification. It also includes precise transliterations of flight calls, supported by sonograms, and links to a unique collection of hundreds of online audio recordings. Beautifully designed and written in an accessible style, this book will appeal to birdwatchers of all abilities. It presents the latest knowledge on flight identification of a group of birds that is poorly covered in the literature and is therefore a must-have for all professional ornithologists and scientists involved in migration studies.-- ER -