Page 7 - Complete Birds of Britain and Europe (DK - RSPB)
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CONTENTS
How This Book Works 6
INTRODUCTION SPECIES GUIDE Martins and Swallows 272
Evolution 8 Divers and Grebes 55 Pipits and Wagtails 278
Anatomy 10 Petrels and Shearwaters 64 Wrens, Dippers, Waxwings, and
Accentors 288
Life Cycle 12 Gannets, Cormorants,
and Pelicans 70 Chats and Thrushes 294
Courtship and Mating 14
Bitterns and Herons 74 Warblers and Allies 313
Nests and Eggs 16
Storks 84 Flycatchers 313
Plumage 18
Flamingos 84 Tits and Allies 341
Flight 20
Feeding 22 Wildfowl 89 Nuthatches, Wallcreeper,
and Treecreepers 351
Song and Calls 24 Birds of Prey 120 Shrikes 356
Migration 26 Gamebirds 145
Orioles 356
Rails, Crakes, and Coots 154
Western Palearctic 28
Crows 362
Cranes and Bustards 154
Wetlands 30
Starlings 362
Estuaries and Low-lying Waders 163 Sparrows 374
Coasts 32 Skuas, Gulls, and Terns 201
Finches 379
Rocky Coasts, Islands, Auks 201
and the Open sea 34 Pigeons and Doves 231 Buntings 394
The Far North 36 Cuckoos 231
Rare Species 404
Northern Mountains and
Owls 238
Moorlands 38 Vagrants 455
Nightjars 238
Southern Mountains
and Crags 40 Swifts 248 Glossary 468
Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters,
Lowland Heath and Index 469
Mediterranean Scrub 42 Rollers, and Hoopoe 252 Acknowledgments 479
Woodpeckers and
Farmland and Grassland 44
Wryneck 257
Forest and Woodland 46
Larks 264
Gardens, Parks, and Towns 48
Watching Birds 50
Conservation 52
