Parkin, D.T. & Knox, A.G. The Status of Birds in Britain & Ireland.
1st. Pub. Christopher helm. 2010 pp.440 with 86 coloured photos. Mint copy in dw. Just published.
This new volume to the Helm library was written to update the British Ornithologists’ Union’s last full checklist, published under the same title as far back as 1971. Since then there have been remarkable changes in both distribution and abundance of the region’s birds. Some species have become extinct as breeding birds, whereas others have colonised and even become quite common; many of our most familiar have suffered critical declines withj changes in land use and climate. Many birds have appeared as vagrants, and many previous vagrants now occurr much more frequently. There has also been a major revolution in bird taxonomy. This book summarises all these changes. A must for the serious ornithologist.
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