Featuring an extensive collection of illustrations, this revised edition serves as the definitive field guide to the birds of Europe. It includes updated information on species, habitats, and behaviors, making it an essential resource for birdwatchers and nature enthusiasts. With comprehensive coverage and detailed visuals, readers can easily identify various bird species while exploring the rich avifauna of the continent.
Using official reports and eyewitness accounts, this new illustrated map and guide documents credible unexplained sightings in The Skies Above the United Kingdom. In recent years, naval, military and scientific sources have begun to acknowledge the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - UAP. Explanations run from the commonplace, such as balloons or birds, to the more thrilling notion of extra-terrestrial visitors. In this illustrated map and guide we stick to known facts - the what, where and who. Entries include the 1980 sightings in Rendlesham Forest by military personnel and reports of UFOs spotted opposite the Houses of Parliament in 2008. Written and researched by the hosts of That UFO Podcast, The Skies Above is a fact-based but lively exploration of one of the planet's last great mysteries.
With expanded text and additional colour illustrations, the second edition of the hugely successful COLLINS BIRD GUIDE is a must for every birdwatcher.The book provides all the information needed to identify any species at any time of the year, covering size, habitat, range, identification and voice. Accompanying every species entry is a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all the major plumages (male, female, immature, in flight, at rest, feeding: whatever is important).In addition, each group of birds includes an introduction which covers the major problems involved in identifying or observing them: how to organise a sea watching trip, how to separate birds of prey in flight, which duck hybrids can be confused with which main species. These and many other common birdwatching questions are answered.The combination of definitive text, up-to-date distribution maps and superb illustrations, all in a single volume, makes this book the ultimate field guide, essential on every bookshelf and birdwatching trip.