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The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of the Middle East.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.
List of contents
Foreword
IntroductionBird Conservation
Map of the Region
Good Birdwatching Sites in the Region
Species Accounts
Further Reading and Resources
Photo Credits
Index
About the author
A tour guide and photographer, Jens Eriksen is renowned as Oman’s premier birder, with a number of photographic titles covering the nation’s birds under his belt along with co-authorship of the Helm field guide Birds of Oman.Richard Porter’s name is synonymous with conservation in the Middle East. He has been involved with birds in the region since 1966, and is an adviser on bird conservation for BirdLife International. He is the author or co-author of several books on Middle Eastern birds, and wrote the groundbreaking Flight Identification of European Raptors.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.
Summary
The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of the Middle East.
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.
Foreword
The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of the Middle East.
Additional text
Fits the bill for a book that can be kept in the side pocket of a backpack ... The photographs are typically of excellent quality and cover variation well.
