The ultimate reference book for bird enthusiasts – now in its third edition. With expanded text and additional color illustrations, the third edition of the highly successful Collins Bird Guide is essential for every birdwatcher.

The new edition has 32 additional pages that allow more space for many groups and completely or partially new plates with more detailed texts: grebes, nightjars, many groups of birds of prey, terns, owls, woodpeckers, grey herons, larks, redstarts and some other relatives of fish-eaters (formerly often called ‘little terns’), buntings and some sparrows and pipits are among them. Over 50 plates are either new or have been redesigned, fully or partially.

The book provides all the information needed to identify any species at any time of the year, covering size, habitat, range, identification, and voice. Each species entry is accompanied by a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all major plumages (male, female, juvenile, in flight, resting, feeding: whatever is significant).

Furthermore, each bird group includes an introduction covering the main problems related to their identification or observation: how to organize a sea watching trip, how to separate birds of prey in flight, which hybrid ducks might be confused with which main species. These and many other common questions about birdwatching are answered.

The combined authoritative text, the updated distribution maps, and the beautiful illustrations, all in one volume, make this book the ultimate field guide, indispensable in every library and on every bird-watching excursion.

Pages: 480, Dimensions: 14.1x14.1cm