Waders of Europe, Asia and North America / Stephen Message and Don Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Message, Stephen, author.

Taylor, Don, author.

Series:

Helm field guides.

Helm Field Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charadriiformes.

Charadriiformes--Europe--Identification.

Ciconiiformes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages, 77 numbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Christopher Helm, 2016.

Summary:

This quick-reference, field-friendly guide offers a complete identification reference to all of the sandpipers, plovers, stints and other waders found in Europe, Asia and North America. The superb plates show birds at rest and in flight, in every plumage variant likely to be encountered in the region.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Overview of wader families

How to use this guide

How to identify waders at rest

Topography of waders at rest

Bills

Feet and legs

Structure

Size and colour

Moult

Feather patterns

Plumage variations

Behaviour

Feeding

Display

Feigning injury

How to identify waders in flight

Topography of waders in flight

Colour plates: Waders at rest : Explanation of the species accounts

1. Painted Snipe, Crab Plover and Ibisbill

2. Oystercatchers

3. Stilts

4. Avocets

5. Thick-knees

6. Egyptian Plover and coursers

7. Pratincoles

8. Lapwings

9. Eurasian Golden and Grey Plovers

10. Pacific and American Golden Plovers

11. Ringed Plovers

12. Wilson's Plover and Killdeer

13. Kentish and Piping Plovers

14. Sand Plovers

15. Caspian and Mountain Plovers, and Dotterel

16. Asian Plovers and Lapwings

17. Great Snipe and woodcocks

18. Swinhoe's, Latham's, Wood and Solitary Snipes

19. Jack, Common, Wilson's and Pintail Snipes

20. Dowitchers

21. Eurasian godwits

22. American godwits

23. Upland Sandpiper and Little Curlew

24. Smaller curlews

25. Larger curlews

26. Redshanks

27. Marsh Sandpiper, Greenshank and Willet

28. Yellowlegs and tattlers

29. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers

30. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers

31. Turnstones and Surfbird

32. Asian specialities

33. Sanderling and knots

34. Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers

35. Dark-legged stints

36. Pale-legged stints

37. White-rumped and Baird's Sandpipers

38. Pectoral, Sharp-tailed and Buff-breasted Sandpipers

39. Dunlin and Curlew Sandpiper

40. Broad-billed, Rock and Purple Sandpipers

41. Stilt Sandpiper and Ruff

42. Phalaropes.

43. North American rarities

44. Oriental vagrants

45. African vagrants

Colour plates: Waders in flight : Explanation of the species accounts

46. Painted Snipe, jacanas and Ibisbill

47. Crab Plover and oystercatchers

48. Avocets and stilts

49. Thick-knees

50. Coursers and Egyptian Plover

51. Pratincoles

52. Lapwings

53. Southern lapwings and Great Thick-knee

54. Large plovers

55. Ringed plovers

56. Killdeer, and Wilson's, Collared and Piping Plovers

57. Kentish, Kittlitz's and Three-banded Plovers

58. Sand Plovers, Caspian and Oriental Plovers and Dotterel

59. Woodcocks and Great Snipe

60. Common, Wilson's, Pintail and Jack Snipes

61. Swinhoe's, Solitary, Latham's and Wood Snipes

62. Bar-tailed Godwit and dowitchers

63. Willet and godwits

64. Smaller curlews and Upland Sandpiper

65. Whimbrel and Bristle-thighed Curlew

66. Larger curlews

67. Greenshanks, Spotted Redshank and Marsh Sandpiper

68. Yellowlegs and tattlers

69. Wood, Solitary and Green Sandpipers

70. Spotted, Common and Terek Sandpipers, and Redshank

71. Turnstones and Surfbird

72. Stints and Spoon-billed Sandpiper

73. American sandpipers and Long-toed Stint

74. 'White-rumped' sandpipers and knots

75. 'Dark-rumped' sandpipers and Ruff

76. Purple, Rock and Broad-billed Sandpipers, and Dunlin

77. Phalaropes and Sanderling

Appendices

A Upperpart flight patterns

i) Nearctic

ii) Western Palearctic

iii) Eastern Palearctic

B Underpart flight patterns

C Systematic list

Bibliography

Index

Sounds, sound recordists and localities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 19, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4081-8123-1

1-4729-7990-7

1-4729-4602-2

OCLC:

960759155