Birds of Oman

Author: Richard Porter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472983211
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Oman With its unique blend of Western Palearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical components, and lying on a migratory crossroads, Oman is a jewel of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of this fascinating and welcoming country. All 528 species on the Oman Bird List are featured on the 116 colour plates, illustrating many of the distinct plumages and races, plus a few non-naturalised escapes. Species accounts cover key identification features - including habitat and voice - with colour maps showing the breeding, wintering and migration distributions for all regularly occurring species.

The Birds of Oman

Author: Michael Desmond Gallagher
Publisher: Quartet Books Limited
ISBN: 9780704322165
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description

Birds of the Middle East

Author: Jens Eriksen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472993071
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The Middle East has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic and sometimes colourful breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else. The perfect companion for any wildlife-friendly visitor, Birds of the Middle East provides photographic coverage of more than 320 species that regularly occur in the region. Concise text for each species includes information on identification, songs and calls, behaviour, distribution and habitat, with each photo having been carefully selected to guide identification. A guide to the best birdwatching sites in the Middle East is also included. Portable yet authoritative, this is the perfect guide for travellers and birdwatchers visiting this spectacular and bird-rich slice of western Asia.

Birdwatching Guide to Oman

Author: Dave E. Sargeant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789948036432
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A birdwatching guide that covers over 60 of the Sultanate's birdwatching sites - each including a map, information on habitats, access and a list of the species.

Oman Bird List

Author: Oman Bird Records Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description

Birds of Central Asia

Author: Raffael Ayé
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408142708
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 848

Book Description
Birds of Central Asia is the first field guide to include the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, along with neighbouring Afghanistan. This vast area includes a diverse variety of habitats, and the avifauna is similarly broad, from sandgrouse, ground jays and larks on the vast steppe and semi-desert to a broad range of raptors, and from woodland species such as warblers and nuthatches to a suite of montane species, such as snowcocks, accentors and snowfinches. This book includes 141 high-quality plates covering every species (and all distinctive races) that occur in the region, along with concise text focusing on identification and accurate colour maps. Important introductory sections introduce the land and its birds. Birds of Central Asia is a must-read for any birder or traveller visiting this remote region.

Common Birds in Oman

Author: Hanne Eriksen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789948153276
Category : Bird watching
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Some 400 colour photographs are included in this book to help identify 250 species of birds, which cover all the common, and many not so common, birds found in Oman. Species have been grouped together by habitat to make identification easier. A distribution map is included for each species. The authors lived in Oman for 19 years and travelled all over the country in search of birds to study and photograph.

Birds of Senegal and The Gambia

Author: Nik Borrow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408171015
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Birds of Senegal and The Gambia – the definitive field guide to the birds of this magical corner of West Africa – just got even better. This enhanced fixed-format version of the book – featuring songs and calls – is set to change birding, forever. Optimised for iPad, it features the book in crisp, clear high-resolution. Superb, fully zoomable colour plates of the highest detail lie opposite comprehensive identification text and accurate range maps. In addition, this e-book features songs, calls and other sounds from 630 species, placed conveniently next to the accompanying species text. The 1,050 sounds included on this e-book represent more than 95% coverage of species in the region. This epic collection of images and sounds represents a step change in the way birders operate. No more carrying heavy books into the field. No more trying to remember sounds days or weeks after the event, while all other methods for taking sounds into the field are consigned to the dustbin. This field guide can even be downloaded to your iPhone or iPod Touch. This e-book provides a complete field-based ID solution – no birder will want to be without it.

The Birds of the State of Kuwait

Author: George Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Kuwait occupies the south-eastern corner of the Western Palearctic Avifaunal Region. This work presents an account for each species of bird recorded in Kuwait. Each species account includes the status, recordings of observations and a table with daily counts. It also includes a list of 37 birdwatching sites in the country.

The Birds of Oman

Author: Michael Gallagher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704322622
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description