Acknowledgements
Introduction:
- Layout and scope of the book
- Species taxonomy
- Subspecies
- Sequence
- Nomenclature
- Photographs
- Maps
- Species accounts
- Glossary and abbreviations
- Selected gazetteer
An approach to moult and ageing birds in the field
General references
List of passerine families: traditional and new order
A brief presentation of passerine families
Species accounts
Vagrants to the region
Checklist of the birds of the Western Palearctic-passerines
Photographic credits
Indexes

Hadoram Shirihai and Lars Svensson

THE BRITISH BIRDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
This unique and spectacular handbook is the most complete and comprehensive photographic guide to the passerines of the Western Palearctic.
Written by two of the world's most respected ornithologists, it contains the most up-to-date information available on bird identification covering all aspects of plumage, moult, ageing and sexing, with sections on voice and other identification criteria, and detailed taxonomic notes.
The passerines are divided into two volumes, with the first covering larks, hirundines, pipits and wagtails, bulbuls, accentors, robins, chats, wheatears, thrushes, prinias and cisticolas, and warblers, and the second covering flycatchers, reedlings, tits, nuthatches, orioles and sunbirds, shrikes, corvids, finches and buntings, along with extreme vagrants.
The exceptional text is backed up by a remarkable collection of more than 5,000 photographs, featuring a comprehensive range of plumages that illustrate every race and morph of each species in the region.
This stunning handbook will be the definitive reference for the region for years to come - no birder's shelf will be complete without it.