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• Contents
• Introduction
• How to use this book
• The parts of a bird
• Ageing, sexing and moult
• The species accounts
• The types of bird
• Wildfowl
• Grebes, divers and cormorants
• Seabirds
• Gulls and terns
• Skuas
• Waders
• Large waterside birds
• Crakes and rails
• Galliforms (quails, partridges, francolins, pheasants and grouse) | Buttonquail
• Bustards
• Pigeons and doves
• Sandgrouse
• Nightjars
• Owls
• Birds of prey
• Cuckoos, kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers and hoopoes
• Woodpeckers
• Aerial feeders (swifts, swallows and martins)
• Larks, pipits and wagtails
• Wrens
• Accentors
• Orioles | Waxwings
• Starlings
• Dippers
• Babblers | Bulbuls
• Thrushes, chats, wheatears and Hypocolius
• Warblers, crests, cisticolas and prinias
• Flycatchers
• Nuthatches, treecreepers and Wallcreeper
• Tits
• Shrikes
• Corvids (jays, crows, nutcrackers and magpies
• Finches and sparrows
• Buntings
• Endemic landbirds of the Atlantic islands
• Vagrant birds in Europe
• Vagrant passerines from North America
• Established introductions
• The status and conservation of Europe’s birds
• Sources of further information
• Acknowledgements and photographers
• Index