Birds of Oman

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Birds of OMAN ...

Dedicated to BirdLife International’s Middle East Conservation Programme ...

CHRISTOPHER HELM LONDON HELM FIELD GUIDES Jens Eriksen and Richard Porter with acknowledgement to Simon Aspinall Illustrated by ...

Christopher Helm An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK US ...

CONTENTS ...

- FOREWORD Plate Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Taxonomy, nomenclature and sequence Illustrations and identification text ...

7 FOREWORD It is a great honour for me to write the foreword for a book that I know will bring pleasure to many people. Wildlife ...

8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In preparing this field guide we have received help and encouragement from many people. We would particularly ...

9 INTRODUCTION This field guide to the birds of Oman is an updated abridgement of the second edition of Birds of the Middle East ...

10 the status and distribution of birds in Oman can be found in the Oman Bird List: Edition 7 (Eriksen & Victor 2013). Birdw ...

11 Taxonomy, nomenclature and sequence This is a very confusing and contentious area of ornithology, and newcomers to birding wi ...

12 Bird topography The illustrations below show the various features of a bird – its topography – used in the identification tex ...

13 Voice Calls and song are only given where a species occurs regularly in the region or where it might be helpful for identific ...

14 Maps and status As a quick guide, the status of each species in Oman appears to the right of the species header, using the co ...

15 Code of conduct and submit ting records The welfare of birds must come first, particularly of nesting birds. Many ground-nest ...

16 PLATE 1: WHISTLING DUCKS AND SWANS Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor V L: 50. W: 80. Shares upright stance and long ...

Fulvous Whistling Duck Mute Swan Whooper Swan Bewick’s Swan Knob-billed Duck Lesser Whistling Duck ad ad ad ad juv juv imm ad  ...

18 PLATE 2: GEESE Greylag Goose Anser anser wv L: 83. W: 164. Only the paler eastern subspecies rubrirostris (Eastern Greylag Go ...