Field Guide to Birds of Central Asia.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map of the region -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- How to Use This Book -- The plates -- Species accounts -- Maps -- Bird topography -- Glossary -- Taxonomy and nomenclature -- Geography and Biogeography -- Topography -- Climate -- Biomes and habitats in Central Asia -- Organisations and Websites -- Species Accounts -- PLATE 1: Grouse -- PLATE 2: Snowcocks and Chukar -- PLATE 3: Partridges and Francolin -- PLATE 4: Quail and Pheasants -- PLATE 5: Grey Geese -- PLATE 6: Geese and Swans -- PLATE 7: Shelducks and Geese -- PLATE 8: Dabbling Ducks I -- PLATE 9: Dabbling Ducks II -- PLATE 10: Diving Ducks -- PLATE 11: Scoters and Goldeneye -- PLATE 12: White-Headed Duck and Sawbills -- PLATE 13: Long-Tailed Duck, Cotton Pygmy-Goose and Divers -- PLATE 14: Grebes -- PLATE 15: Flamingo, Storks, Ibis and Spoonbill -- PLATE 16: Bitterns and small Herons -- PLATE 17: Large Herons and Egrets -- PLATE 18: Pelicans and Cormorants -- PLATE 19: Falcons I -- PLATE 20: Falcons II -- PLATE 21: Falcons III -- PLATE 22: Falcons IV, White-Eyed Buzzard and Kite -- PLATE 23: Honey-Buzzards and Osprey -- PLATE 24: Fish-Eagles and Vultures -- PLATE 25: Vultures -- PLATE 26: Kite and Marsh Harriers -- PLATE 27: Harriers -- PLATE 28: Hawks -- PLATE 29: Buzzards -- PLATE 30: Buzzards and Golden Eagle -- PLATE 31: Eagles I -- PLATE 32: Eagles II -- PLATE 33: Bustards and Cranes -- PLATE 34: Crakes and Rails -- PLATE 35: Gallinules and Jacana -- PLATE 36: Miscellaneous Waders -- PLATE 37: Lapwings -- PLATE 38: Larger Plovers -- PLATE 39: Smaller Plovers -- PLATE 40: Small Plovers and Snipes -- PLATE 41: Snipes and Woodcock -- PLATE 42: Dowitchers and Godwits -- PLATE 43: Curlews -- PLATE 44: Large Sandpipers -- PLATE 45: Medium-Sized Sandpipers and Turnstone -- PLATE 46: Stints -- PLATE 47: Small Sandpipers.

PLATE 48: Ruff, Knot and Phalaropes -- PLATE 49: Courser, Pratincoles and Painted-Snipe -- PLATE 50: Gulls I -- PLATE 51: Gulls II -- PLATE 52: Gulls III -- PLATE 53: Gulls IV and Skuas -- PLATE 54: Terns I -- PLATE 55: Terns II -- PLATE 56: Sandgrouse -- PLATE 57: Sandgrouse and Pigeons -- PLATE 58: Pigeons -- PLATE 59: Doves -- PLATE 60: Parakeets and Cuckoos -- PLATE 61: Owls I -- PLATE 62: Owls II -- PLATE 63: Owls III -- PLATE 64: Nightjars -- PLATE 65: Swifts -- PLATE 66: Rollers and Bee-Eaters -- PLATE 67: Kingfishers and Hoopoe -- PLATE 68: Wrynecks, Piculet and Woodpeckers I -- PLATE 69: Woodpeckers II -- PLATE 70: Woodpeckers III -- PLATE 71: Shrikes I -- PLATE 72: Shrikes II -- PLATE 73: Grey Shrikes -- PLATE 74: Bulbuls, Drongos and Minivet -- PLATE 75: Jays and Nutcrackers -- PLATE 76: Magpie, Ground Jays and Choughs -- PLATE 77: Crows and Ravens -- PLATE 78: Crows and Orioles -- PLATE 79: Hypocolius and Tits I -- PLATE 80: Tits II -- PLATE 81: Tits III and Reedling -- PLATE 82: Penduline and Long-Tailed Tits -- PLATE 83: Martins -- PLATE 84: Swallows and House Martin -- PLATE 85: Larks I -- PLATE 86: Larks II -- PLATE 87: Larks III -- PLATE 88: Larks IV -- PLATE 89: Cisticolas and Prinias -- PLATE 90: Reed and Bush Warblers I -- PLATE 91: Reed and Bush Warblers II -- PLATE 92: Reed and Bush Warblers III -- PLATE 93: Reed and Bush Warblers IV -- PLATE 94: Reed and Bush Warblers V -- PLATE 95: Leaf Warblers I -- PLATE 96: Leaf Warblers II -- PLATE 97: Leaf Warblers III -- PLATE 98: Leaf Warblers IV -- PLATE 99: Sylvia Warblers I -- PLATE 100: Sylvia Warblers II -- PLATE 101: Babbler, Laughingthrushes, Flycatcher &amp -- Wallcreeper -- PLATE 102: Nuthatches and Treecreepers -- PLATE 103: Wren, White-Eye, Tit-Warbler and Goldcrest -- PLATE 104: Mynas and Starlings -- PLATE 105: Whistling and Rock Thrushes -- PLATE 106: Thrushes I.

PLATE 107: Thrushes II -- PLATE 108: Thrushes III -- PLATE 109: Nightingales and Robins -- PLATE 110: Rubythroats and Robins -- PLATE 111: Robins and Redstarts I -- PLATE 112: Redstarts II -- PLATE 113: Water Redstarts and Forktails -- PLATE 114: Bushchats and Stonechats -- PLATE 115: Wheatears I -- PLATE 116: Wheatears II -- PLATE 117: Wheatears III -- PLATE 118: Flycatchers I -- PLATE 119: Flycatchers II -- PLATE 120: Sparrows I -- PLATE 121: Sparrows II -- PLATE 122: Rock Sparrows and Snowfinches -- PLATE 123: Accentors I -- PLATE 124: Accentors II -- PLATE 125: Sunbird, Dippers and Waxwing -- PLATE 126: Wagtails I -- PLATE 127: Wagtails II -- PLATE 128: Pipits I -- PLATE 129: Pipits II -- PLATE 130: Pipits III -- PLATE 131: Finches I -- PLATE 132: Finches II -- PLATE 133: Finches III -- PLATE 134: Finches IV and Munia -- PLATE 135: Rosefinches I -- PLATE 136: Rosefinches II -- PLATE 137: Bullfinch, Hawfinch and Grosbeaks -- PLATE 138: Pine Grosbeak, Crossbills and Snow Bunting -- PLATE 139: Buntings I -- PLATE 140: Buntings II -- PLATE 141: Buntings III -- PLATE 142: Buntings IV -- PLATE 143: Buntings V -- Appendix 1: Old vagrants, undocumented records and doubtfully recorded species -- Appendix 2: Moult and ageing of large raptors -- Appendix 3: Identifying gulls -- References -- Index.

The definitive field guide to the birds of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.

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