Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland

ISBN: 9781408139592 出版年：2010 页码：367 J N Dymond Bloomsbury Publishing

This book by a trio of rare-bird specialists is a successor to two earlier works (long out of print), Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock 1974 and Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock 1976). It unifiearlier books and updates them, adding more than 80 species to the previous total.The authors have analysed and considerrecords of scarce and rare birds in Britain and Ireland for the period 1958-85. Extreme rarities outside the period are also listed. They have produced nof great fascination for those who delight in rarities for their own sake, but o valuable information on changing patterns of arrival which may indicate changes of status of these birds within their breeding range.More than 300 species accounts are now included, most of them accompanied by histograms of weekly and seasonal occurrences, with maps showing distribution by counties in spring and autumn or at particular times of the year. For raritior fewer occurrences duri1958-85, the place, date and other relevant information is given for each record.Every species is illustrated by a line drawing, morthem commissioned for this book, the remainder being selected from the two earlier works.