Birds in Scotland.

This impressively comprehensive study and review of the birds in Scotland by Valerie Thom, editor of Scottish Birds and past-President of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, may be said to follow on where the celebrated two volumes of The Birds of Scotland (1953), by Dr Baxter and Miss Rintoul,...

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Main Author: Thom, Valerie M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : A & C Black, 2010.
Series:Poyser Monographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Scotland
  • its avifauna and geography; 2 Coastal habitats; 3 Woodlands; 4 Uplands; 5 Freshwater habitats; 6 Farmland; 7 Urban-suburban and man-made habitats; 8 Developments in bird study; 9 Protection and conservation
  • progress and problems; 10 Recent changes in status and distribution; 11 Background to the species accounts; The species accounts; Appendices; Bibliography; General index; Species index.