Cyprus is a great place for birding, and one of the most popular places for birders to visit in Europe. It holds populations of a number of regional scarcities that are very hard to see elsewhere, plus a number of endemic subspecies, and the jewels in the crown - three full endemics, Cyprus Wheatear, Cyprus Scops Owl and Cyprus Warbler, the latter of which graces the jacket of this new Helm field guide to the island. Detailed plates are allied to concise identification text, with accurate maps stemming from Colin Richardson''s decades-long programme of population-mapping on the island. Together, these elements make this the definitive guide to Cyprus''s birds, one that no visitor to this beautiful island can be without.>

I find this field guide well thought out, attractive in appearance, user-friendly, authoritative, well-researched and representing a major step forward for ornithology on the island. For the many visiting birders, who may wish to bring only one book, this is all they will need.

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The definitive guide to the birds of Cyprus.

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Colin Richardson is an ornithologist with a particular interest in bird migration in the Middle East. He is on the editorial board of Sandgrouse and is the Cyprus representative for the Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME) and the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society. He was the BirdLife Cyprus Bird Recorder and editor of the Cyprus Bird Report from 2004 2013 and a member of BirdLife Cyprus Council and Chairman of the Cyprus Bird Rarities Committee from 2004 to 2015.

His books include The Birds of the United Arab Emirates (1990) and he was senior author of The Shell Birdwatching Guide to the UAE (1996). He has written more than 95 peer-reviewed papers on Middle East ornithology, and was editor of the Emirates Bird Report from 1988 to 2000.

Colin served as UAE Bird Recorder from 1985 to 2003 and was Chairman of the Emirates Records Committee from 1995 to 2002. He was a council member of OSME from 2005 to 2010 and was awarded the Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed prize for services to Conservation and Ornithology in the United Arab Emirates in 1995.

Richard Porter's name is synonymous with conservation in the Middle East. He has been involved with birds in the region since 1966, and is an adviser on bird conservation for BirdLife International. He is the author or co-author of several books on Middle Eastern birds, and wrote the groundbreaking Flight Identification of European Raptors.

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An authoritative guide to the birds of Cyprus. Cyprus is a great place for birding, and one of the most popular places for birders to visit in Europe. It holds populations of a number of regional scarcities that are very hard to see elsewhere, plus a number of endemic subspecies, and the jewels in the crown - three full endemics, Cyprus Wheatear, Cyprus Scops Owl and Cyprus Warbler, the latter of which graces the jacket of this new Helm field guide to the island. Detailed plates are allied to concise identification text, with accurate maps stemming from Colin Richardson's decades-long programme of population-mapping on the island. Together, these elements make this the definitive guide to Cyprus's birds, one that no visitor to this beautiful island can be without.

Inhalt

Foreword

Introduction
Taxonomy, nomenclature and sequence
Illustrations and identification text
Bird topography
Voice
Status, distribution and habitat
Maps
Important dams and reservoirs
Code of conduct and submitting records
Bird killing in Cyprus
Birdwatching sites

Species Accounts (1-95)

References and Further Reading
Checklist of the birds of Cyprus
Index