Foreword
Introduction
Taxonomy, nomenclature and sequence
Illustrations and identification text
Bird topography
Voice
Status, distribution and habitat
Maps
Important dams and reservoirs
Code of conduct and submitting records
Bird killing in Cyprus
Birdwatching sites
Species Accounts (1-95)
References and Further Reading
Checklist of the birds of Cyprus
Index

Colin Richardson and Richard Porter

An authoritative guide to the birds of Cyprus.
Cyprus is a great place for birding, and one of the most popular places for birders to visit in Europe. It holds populations of a number of regional scarcities that are very hard to see elsewhere, plus a number of endemic subspecies, and the jewels in the crown - three full endemics, Cyprus Wheatear, Cyprus Scops Owl and Cyprus Warbler, the latter of which graces the jacket of this new Helm field guide to the island.

Detailed plates are allied to concise identification text, with accurate maps stemming from Colin Richardson's decades-long programme of population-mapping on the island. Together, these elements make this the definitive guide to Cyprus's birds, one that no visitor to this beautiful island can be without.