A&C Black competition

                                                                                  

For those that live in the United Kingdom, you might be interested in this competition: WIN one of these recently published titles. Simply email your name and address to: competition@bloomsbury.com with the title of the book you'd like to win in the subject line before 15th November 2011.

NEW TITLES:


AVIAN SURVIVORS

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The History and Biogeography of Palearctic Birds

Clive Finlayson
     History and chance events play a central role in a story that has its origins before the asteroid impact that finished off the dinosaurs. In this book, Finlayson shows that the avifauna of the Palearctic long predates the glaciations of the last two million years, and had established itself gradually during the turbulent times of the Miocene and Pliocene, the lifting of Tibet and the drying of the continents having a major influence on these birds.
     Packed with figures and with a rich colour section, Avian Survivors tells the definitive story of the birds of the Palearctic, across space and time.

BIRDS OF SEYCHELLES

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Adrian Skerrett & Tony Disley
     The only field guide to cover every species recorded in Seychelles, covering more than 250 species, including all residents, migrants and vagrants. Concise text on facing pages highlights key identification features, including habitat, distribution, status and voice. The plates are based on the authors' previous work, but with the addition of many new images.

THE KITTIWAKE

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John Coulson
    The Kittiwake has been the subject of behavioural research since the late 1950s - one of the longest running studies in the world. In this Poyser Monograph, John Coulson summarises these decades of research, revealing amazing insights into the life of these gulls, with wider implications for the behavioural ecology of all colonial birds. This book is essential for academics working on colonial species, and is also of great interest to birders who want to learn more about these elegant cliff-dwelling birds.

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FINCHES AND SPARROWS

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Peter Clement
     This is a guide to true finches and sparrows illustrating all the species, many races and most sex and age variations, with almost 950 portraits. The maps accompanying the illustrations show breeding and wintering ranges for all species.

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