THE CROSSLEY ID GUIDE: BRITAIN and IRELAND. By Richard Crossley and Dominic Couzens.

2014 1st edition. 8vo paperback (151 x 241mm). Pp301. Colour identification illustrations, maps, colour photographs, bibliography. Stiff card covers with flaps.

"This book looks at all regularly occurring [bird] species in Britain and Ireland, and shows readers how to identify birds in their natural habitats using size, structure, shape, probability, and behaviour." This book presents all the regularly occurring British and Irish birds, amounting to more than 300 species. The bird pictures are arranged in tableaux against the backdrop of real locations, showing the species in a variety of age groups and poses, as well as at varying distances from the observer.