Abstract
ALL too often the elaborate descriptions of birds that give each detail of plumage with minute exactitude are not much help to recognition in the field. Mr. James Fisher, in a ‘Pelican' devoted to sea-birds and waders, and entitled "Bird Recognition", writes not with one eye but with both eyes on the field worker, and the novice at that. All persons interested in ornithology will find this little volume helpful but no one more so than the beginner, who will find it a valuable aid to the identification of the many species of waders and gulls to be found on and near the sea. The illustrations consist of monochrome portrait sketches by "Fish-hawk", maps chiefly by Mr. W. B. Alexander, and diagrams, consisting of circular calendars, showing the distribution of the species throughout the twelve months. Much information is thus packed into a small space and a useful, helpful book results.
Bird Recognition
1 : Sea-Birds and Waders. By James Fisher. (Pelican Books, A. 175.) Pp. 190. (Harmondsworth and New York : Penguin Books, Ltd., 1947.) 2s. 6d.
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PITT, F. Bird Recognition. Nature 161, 831 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161831d0
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