| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Overview of wader families; How to use this guide; How to identify waders at rest; Topography of waders at rest; Bills; Feet and legs; Structure; Size and colour; Moult; Feather patterns; Plumage variations; Behaviour; Feeding; Display; Feigning injury; How to identify waders in flight; Topography of waders in flight; Behaviour; Colour plates: Waders at rest : Explanation of the species accounts; 1. Painted Snipe, Crab Plover and Ibisbill; 2. Oystercatchers; 3. Stilts; 4. Avocets; 5. Thick-knees |
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6. Egyptian Plover and coursers7. Pratincoles; 8. Lapwings; 9. Eurasian Golden and Grey Plovers; 10. Pacific and American Golden Plovers; 11. Ringed Plovers; 12. Wilson's Plover and Killdeer; 13. Kentish and Piping Plovers; 14. Sand Plovers; 15. Caspian and Mountain Plovers, and Dotterel; 16. Asian Plovers and Lapwings; 17. Great Snipe and woodcocks; 18. Swinhoe's, Latham's, Wood and Solitary Snipes; 19. Jack, Common, Wilson's and Pintail Snipes; 20. Dowitchers; 21. Eurasian godwits; 22. American godwits; 23. Upland Sandpiper and Little Curlew; 24. Smaller curlews; 25. Larger curlews |
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26. Redshanks27. Marsh Sandpiper, Greenshank and Willet; 28. Yellowlegs and tattlers; 29. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers; 30. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers; 31. Turnstones and Surfbird; 32. Asian specialities; 33. Sanderling and knots; 34. Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers; 35. Dark-legged stints; 36. Pale-legged stints; 37. White-rumped and Baird's Sandpipers; 38. Pectoral, Sharp-tailed and Buff-breasted Sandpipers; 39. Dunlin and Curlew Sandpiper; 40. Broad-billed, Rock and Purple Sandpipers; 41. Stilt Sandpiper and Ruff; 42. Phalaropes; 43. North American rarities |
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44. Oriental vagrants45. African vagrants; Colour plates: Waders in flight : Explanation of the species accounts; 46. Painted Snipe, jacanas and Ibisbill; 47. Crab Plover and oystercatchers; 48. Avocets and stilts; 49. Thick-knees; 50. Coursers and Egyptian Plover; 51. Pratincoles; 52. Lapwings; 53. Southern lapwings and Great Thick-knee; 54. Large plovers; 55. Ringed plovers; 56. Killdeer, and Wilson's, Collared and Piping Plovers; 57. Kentish, Kittlitz's and Three-banded Plovers; 58. Sand Plovers, Caspian and Oriental Plovers and Dotterel; 59. Woodcocks and Great Snipe |
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60. Common, Wilson's, Pintail and Jack Snipes61. Swinhoe's, Solitary, Latham's and Wood Snipes; 62. Bar-tailed Godwit and dowitchers; 63. Willet and godwits; 64. Smaller curlews and Upland Sandpiper; 65. Whimbrel and Bristle-thighed Curlew; 66. Larger curlews; 67. Greenshanks, Spotted Redshank and Marsh Sandpiper; 68. Yellowlegs and tattlers; 69. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers; 70. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers, and Redshank; 71. Turnstones and Surfbird; 72. Stints and Spoon-billed Sandpiper; 73. American sandpipers and Long-toed Stint; 74. 'White-rumped' sandpipers and knots |
| Summary |
This quick-reference, field-friendly guide offers a complete identification reference to all of the sandpipers, plovers, stints and other waders found in Europe, Asia and North America. The superb plates show birds at rest and in flight, in every plumage variant likely to be encountered in the region |
| Notes |
75. 'Dark-rumped' sandpipers and Ruff |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Charadriiformes.
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Charadriiformes -- Europe -- Identification
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Ciconiiformes.
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Charadriiformes
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Ciconiiformes
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Field guides
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taylor, Don W
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Message, Stephen
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| ISBN |
9781472946027 |
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1472946022 |
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