Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia, A Guide to Field Identification

Stephen Message & Don Taylor

This is a quick reference guide with large illustrations of the sandpipers, plovers, stints and other shorebirds of the these three continents. Color plates show the birds at rest, in flight and in the plumage variants likely to be encountered. Handily, similar species are shown in the insets, so the guide is taxonomically correct but allows for easy comparisons. Other highlights:

• 80 color plates show full range of plumage types of all species covered

• Concise facing text treats appearance, voice, and behavior

• Clear color distribution map for each species

• Definitive pictorial guide to the shorebirds of these continents

About the authors (from the publisher): Stephen Message is a professional bird artist whose work has appeared in several books, including Bill Oddie's Birds of Britain and Ireland. Don Taylor is a well-known birder in the United Kingdom. His books include Where to Watch Birds in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, and he has published extensively in U.K. birding magazines. He has traveled widely and has seen all but a handful of the world's 216 shorebird species

Paper, 224 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 ¼ inches, full-color illustrations, maps, March 2006 "