Birds of Marsh and Shore

The Orbis encyclopedia of birds of Britain and Europe

Hardcover 

First Edition 1979

Coffee Table Book Size

the book covers all these species in 13 chapters of varying size (4 to 54 pages) and each devoted to an avian family with a long article illustrated with colour photos and a planispherical distribution map, followed by a series of systematized cards describing some emblematic species (82 in total) illustrated with a beautiful color engraving and sometimes a distribution map; therefore follow one another.

coloured plates grouping different species in flight interstinate throughout the work; index at the end; this magnificent library identification guide will delight all ornithologists with its sumptuous iconography even if the choice of selected species (chosen mainly in the hemisphere North Holarctic) sometimes leaves dreamy; to put absolutely in his library