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 endic subspecies, and the jewels in the crown ' three full endics, Cyprus Wheatear, Cyprus Scops Owl and Cyprus Warbler, the latter of which graces the jacket of this new Helm field guide to the island. br brDetailed plates are allied to concise identification text, with accurate maps stming from Colin Richardson's decades-long programme of population-mapping on the island. Together, these elents make this the definitive guide to Cyprus's birds, one that no visitor to this beautiful island can be without.
Birds of Cyprus
Colin Richardson and Richard Porter
The definitive guide to the birds of CyprusRights Sold
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Imprint: Helm brPublication date: 09012020 brFormat: 216 x 140 mm | 256 pagesAbout the Author
Richard Porter bis the unquestioned world authority on the birds of the region. The author of iBirds of the Middle Easti, Richard has been active in the conservation of birds throughout the OSME region since the 1960s. His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey rains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. Colin Richardsonb is an ornithologist with a particular interest in bird migration in the Middle East. He is on the editorial board of iSandgrousei and is the Cyprus representative for the Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME) and the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society. He was a council mber of OSME from 2005-2010 and was awarded the Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed prize for services to Conservation and Ornithology in the United Arab irates in 1995.
