Helm Guide to Bird Identification
An essential field-guide companion covering the sternest challenges in bird identification.
This guide book by tackles difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds, and comparing and contrasting their respective features.
Designed as a field companion for British and European birding, it supplements the standard field guides and provides much additional information. As well as detailed texts, the book includes extensive illustrations by Alan Harris of all relevant ages and plumages of the species concerned.
This is an essential supplement to regular field guides for anyone looking to improve their field identification skills, focusing on the confusion species that can otherwise challenge any birdwatcher.
Keith Vinicombe is an ornithologist and bird identification expert. Keith has served on both the British Birds Rarities Committee and the BOU Records Committee; he is identification consultant to Birdwatch magazine, and has written extensively on bird identification in Birdwatch and other journals, including Birding World and British Birds.
Alan Harris has been a bird artist since 1980. His work includes a number of ground-breaking ornithological books, including Helm Identification Guides such as Sylvia Warblers, Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers and Finches and Sparrows, as well as contributions to field guides such as Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Birds of Japan and Birds of Argentina. Alan has been Art Consultant to British Birds magazine since 1988.