Field Guide to Birds of the Middle East: Third Edition

by Richard Porter, Oscar Campbell, AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan, John Gale (Illustrator), Mike Langman (Illustrator)

Overview

The ultimate field guide to the birds of the Middle East, an indispensable companion for any traveller to the region

The Middle East – the region stretching from Cyprus and the Levant to Iran, including Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula, plus Socotra – has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else.

This authoritative book covers more than 895 species recorded in the Middle East, including details of all regular visitors and breeding species, from the Purple Sunbird to the Northern Bald Ibis. Featuring 180 stunning colour plates by three of the world's leading bird illustrators, this practical guide also includes concise species accounts describing key identification features, status, range, habitat and voice with fully updated distribution maps for each species.

Written by three of the leading lights in regional ornithology and conservation, this fully revised and expanded guide is an essential reference for any birder living in or visiting the Middle East.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399401975
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/28/2024
Series:	Helm Field Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	112 MB
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About the Author

Richard Porter has been involved with birds in the Middle East since 1966, and is an adviser on bird conservation for BirdLife International. AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan is a Kuwaiti birder, ornithologist and photographer. His passion for birds began at the age of 7, and he later set up a photography blog which featured his photos of birds in the region. Oscar Campbell is a naturalist, bird conservationist and chemistry teacher. For more than a decade, he has been chairman of the Emirates Bird Records Committee.
Richard Porter has been involved with birds in the Middle East since 1966 and is an adviser on bird conservation for BirdLife International. He is the author or co-author of several books on the Middle East and the groundbreaking Flight Identification of European Raptors.
Oscar Campbell is a naturalist, bird conservationist and chemistry teacher. For more than a decade, he has been chairman of the Emirates Bird Records Committee. In 2013, he was awarded the Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Prize for Natural History.
AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan is a Kuwaiti birder, ornithologist and photographer. His passion for birds began at the age of 7, and he later set up a photography blog which featured his photos of birds in the region. AbdulRahman now leads guided bird tours in Kuwait and was also involved in the translation of the Helm Field Guide Birds of the Middle East into Arabic.
John Gale is a world-renowned bird illustrator with many books to his credit.
Mike Langman is a world-renowned bird illustrator with many books to his credit.
Brian Small is a highly regarded bird illustrator with several books to his credit. His warblers are particularly outstanding.
Alan Harris has been a freelance illustrator since 1980, art consultant for British Birds since 1988, and one of the judges of the magazine's 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' competition since 1989 (have won first prize in 1982). His illustrations have appeared in numerous books including Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World, Kingfishers, Bee-eaters&Rollers, Finches&Sparrows, The Macmillan Birders' Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds, volumes 5-7 of Birds of the Western Palearctic, Birds of the Western Palearctic - Concise Edition, and Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. He is particularly interested in Old World warblers and gulls.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
- The region and species covered
- Escapes and introduced birds
- Sequence, taxonomy and nomenclature
- Illustrations and identification text
- Bird topography
- Voice
- Habitat
- Maps and status
- Code of conduct
Species Accounts
References and further reading
Checklist of the birds of the Middle East
Index