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This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world''s 170 species of robins and chats. This large family of small passerines was formerly considered to be part of the thrush family, Turdidae, but is now usually treated as a separate family, Muscicapidae, together with the Old World flycatchers.

Robins and chats are a diverse family comprising both highly colorful and visible species, such as the robin-chats of Africa, as well as some of the most skulking and elusive birds, such as the shortwings of Asia. Many chats, such as the well-known Nightingale, are renowned songsters, and a good number are highly sought-after by world listers for their extreme rarity or simply because they are hard to see.

This book discusses the identification and habits of these birds on a species-by-species basis, bringing together the very latest research, with accurate range maps, more than six hundred stunning color photographs that il

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Introduction How to Use this Book: Layout and Scope Chat Systematics - Shaking the Tree by Per Alström Colour Plates Species Accounts Bibliography Acknowledgements

Robins and Chats Helm Identification Guides

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      Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 8 October 2015
      ISBN-13 9780713639636
      978-0713639636
      ISBN-10 0713639636
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      Zoology: birds (ornithology)

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world''s 170 species of robins and chats. This large family of small passerines was formerly considered to be part of the thrush family, Turdidae, but is now usually treated as a separate family, Muscicapidae, together with the Old World flycatchers.

      Robins and chats are a diverse family comprising both highly colorful and visible species, such as the robin-chats of Africa, as well as some of the most skulking and elusive birds, such as the shortwings of Asia. Many chats, such as the well-known Nightingale, are renowned songsters, and a good number are highly sought-after by world listers for their extreme rarity or simply because they are hard to see.

      This book discusses the identification and habits of these birds on a species-by-species basis, bringing together the very latest research, with accurate range maps, more than six hundred stunning color photographs that il

      Table of Contents
      Introduction How to Use this Book: Layout and Scope Chat Systematics - Shaking the Tree by Per Alström Colour Plates Species Accounts Bibliography Acknowledgements

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