Shrikes of the World (Helm Identification Guides)

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Barn Owl comprises around thirty-five subspecies across its large world range but only two are of relevance here – nominate alba from Britain, western and southern France, Iberia and the western Mediterranean and guttata (‘Dark-breasted Barn Owl’) eastwards from the Netherlands across central Europe and western Russia. This is most likely due to the loss of human-created habitats that support shrike populations, including unimproved pasture and hedgerows. The book's thought-provoking text is well supported by an array of diagrams, tables, drawings by the author, and color photographs of birds and habitats. Common Swift comprises two subspecies – nominate apus across the Western Palearctic and northern Russia and pekinensis (‘Eastern Common Swift’) from Iran to Mongolia and northern China (Cramp et al.

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The booke of falconrie or hawking: for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie: Turberville, George, 1540?For the British birder, where every shrike species is sadly now at least a scarcity and some are extreme rarities, their allure is all the more intense. To help you get to know this fascinating group of birds, we've assembled answers to some of the most common questions about them, including what shrikes look like, how they hunt, what threats they face — and how you can help. Their Latin name, Lanius, means butcher, and shrikes are commonly known as butcher-birds for their habit of impaling prey on the thorns of bushes. The group is widespread (particularly in the Old World) with a large number of species, though many populations have plummeted in recent years, especially in Europe. This book is the first monograph in English on the 34 shrike species distributed across Africa, Eurasia and North America.

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In addition , cristatus and mitratus are on the British List, the former in relation to a bird in North Yorkshire in March 1872, the latter in relation to a bird on the Isle of Wight ‘prior to 1844’. Great Spotted Woodpecker comprises twenty-four subspecies across a large European and Asian range but only three are of relevance here – anglicus from Britain, nominate major (‘Northern Great Spotted Woodpecker’) from northern Europe and northern Russia, and pinetorum (‘European Great Spotted Woodpecker’) from central Europe. This book is the first complete guide to the thirty-one species in three genera of the family Laniidae. And so, the publication of the latest in the Helm Identification Guides series will no doubt be of great interest to many. They are inherently beautiful, often sporting black 'bandit masks' and white flashes in the wings and tail, alongside appealing colour combinations of black, white, grey, rufous and buff.Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes". For Emin’s Shrike, while the details of the ecology of the species were interesting enough, I particularly enjoyed learning about the origin of the honorific name. The remaining English records (about ten in all and mostly from the nineteenth century) were not attributed to subspecies but were presumably continental in origin (Scottish birds have not been recorded south of the Central Belt).