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RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds: Second edition Paperback – Illustrated, 21 Aug. 2018

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A compact, lightweight and informative guide to 215 of the UK's most common birds.

Featuring 950 colour illustrations and 215 up-to-date colour distribution maps, this new edition of RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds showcases 215 bird species regularly seen in the UK.

Each species is illustrated in all distinct plumage forms likely to be observed in the wild, and includes concise and succinct descriptions, with details on identification, calls and song, habitat, distribution and behaviour. Along with helpful distribution maps, the species accounts also feature confusion species, with their most important and easily noted differences described.

Portable and easy-to-use, RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds is the perfect guide for use in the field.

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224 pages
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English
Publisher

Bloomsbury Wildlife
Publication date

21 Aug. 2018
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11.53 x 1.32 x 17.09 cm
ISBN-10

1472962621
ISBN-13

978-1472962621
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Simon Harrap goes back to basics with all-new text in a colourful guide aimed at new bird-watchers. ― Good Book Guide

A sumptuous, classy book, with terrific illustrations of a carefully selected 174 species ― BBC Wildlife

An excellent book to buy as a present for beginner birdwatching friends or to keep in the car. ― Scottish Birds

An excellent beginner's guide. ― IBIS - The International Journal of Avian Science

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A compact, lightweight and informative guide to 215 of the most common birds found in Britain. It features concise descriptions of each bird's main characteristics including plumage, calls, confusion species, habitat and includes distribution maps and detailed illustrations.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Wildlife; 2nd edition (21 Aug. 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472962621
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472962621
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.53 x 1.32 x 17.09 cm

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Hisboss

Inspirational little book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2018

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I bought this for my seven year old grandson as they moved from a town to the countryside. He spends a lot of time in his bedroom looking out onto their large back garden and documenting the wildlife that comes to visit. I decided that this book might assist him to identify the birds better. We were chatting on the phone only a few days ago and he was telling me that while a lot of people think pigeons are ugly he thinks they are truly beautiful because of the colouration on their chests. He has also found a magpie feather which he says is so awesome in colour too. His parents have supplied him with their binoculars and he is really smitten with his bird watching. Great book as far as I am concerned! A little boy taking pleasure in the world around him.............

196 people found this helpful

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Diane s

Easy to understand

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 March 2019

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Wasn't sure which book to buy as you cannot look inside, but this one my partner loves as description and pictures make it easy to identify, and all in a handy carry size.

121 people found this helpful

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Scottish Lassie

•Great book for the twitcher newbie•

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2016

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I bought this book for my partner as he has always had a mild interest in spotting birds. Since getting this book; he's ordered him sled a pair of binoculars and bought himself a notepad. He keeps this and the book in the car and has gone out on various occasions to try and spot new birds. He really loves his new healthy hobby and this book has encouraged him to take a more active, educated role in bird spotting.

The book itself is pocket sized and gives just the essential details about all of the birds that visit the UK throughout the year. It tells you what you need to do to spot birds, the equipment you need, how to spot birds, when you where you need to go and spot birds and general practical advice. The introduction won't take you more than half an hour to read and then you're ready to go.

5* book. I would recommend this book to all newbie and wannabe twitchers.

78 people found this helpful

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I. Butsy

"It works a treat"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2018

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I've used this book along with a pair of 10 x 42 binoculars and despite being a novice 'twitcher' I've successfully identified several birds - which is great feeling of accomplishment. The book is divided into "different bird" catagories (e.g. Owls, larks, tits, wrens, sparrows, etc.) which gives the novice a fighting chance of identifying a bird.

An older review below states that the book would be better if it contained drawings of under, my 2012 version does include wing illustrations.

A useful feature of the book are maps for each bird-type giving an indication to the distibution of species across the seasons - If I think I've seen a ring necked parakeet in the highlands of Scotland then I know I need to look again as the species is shown as being distributed in the SE of England.

Another helpful feature is a section for each bird on the "confusion of species" which again allows you to cross reference your finding.

The illustrations are beautiful and clear and the overall presentation, information and quality of this book has engaged me thoroughly.

48 people found this helpful

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Pooh Bear

More than enough info to start you off.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2020

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I seem to be becoming a bit of a bird geek. In the build up to my first big garden bird watch I felt I needed to be armed with more information than the basic knowledge I had. I have been looking into getting a book for a while after being gifted a bird feeder by a neighbour. There is great pleasure to be had in the whole process of feeding birds, and watching their feeding patterns.
Although I was drawn initially to more complex bird identifying books, I plumped on this one as a start off, after reading many reviews about the complexity of identifying birds. Such small differences in some instances, but I think I'm getting the hang of it although you do have to be quite close (several starlings landed, but I had to get closer than my window to clarify and what amazing detail they have, so subtle, but beautiful).
I like this as it's fairly simple. I like the little maps identifying where you're likely to see the birds (which helps limit your identification) I think anything more complicated might have blown my little head and put me off so really glad I purchased this.
Bird food and book at the ready......

8 people found this helpful

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Twitchers Companion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2017

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A great little book of British birds with excellent illustrations. Each entry has pictures showing
seasonal variations in appearance, together with information including a description, population,
habitat, voice (I love the phonetic sonic approximations!) and "confusion species" (really helpful).

I'd never thought I'd become a twitcher but things are moving in that direction. Binoculars next!

22 people found this helpful

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Comprehensive and easy to use reference guide

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2022

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The days of the book as a field guide are coming to an end as books are heavy and bulky while smartphone apps are not.
As they go though, this book is quite light and will fit in a large coat pocket. The habitat maps are useful and the painted pictures of the birds are really excellent and show the birds much better than photographs found in some other guides.
There is also rather more information about the birds than is found on many bird identification web apps making the book a pleasure to browse through and explore from within a rainy tent or holiday cottage on on of those inevitable British holiday days that are rained off.
Also, of course, the book does not require internet access which often is not available out in the best of Britain's parks and remote wild lands.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2017

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An excellent guide. Particulary helpful is the way this guide points out similar birds which may be confused with the bird in question, describing the subtle differences between the species, to aid correct identification.

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