All the Rare Birds of Europe - book (1 Viewer)

[Samuel Patinha]

Hello,
I'm sorry to bother, but I've been looking for something about rare birds in WP and can't find anything which fits what I was expecting.
However, I found a book which seems really nice, with info about the species, but most importantly, where they had appeared. But, unfortunately it seems the book had only been edited in french ("Tous les Oiseaux Rares d'Europe") and dutch ("Zeldzame Vogels van Europa"). Does anyone know if this book is expected in english anytime soon?

Do you recommend any other book about rare birds in WP worth buying? I wanted something which sums up the very rare birds which appeared or are expected to appear in WP and comprises the places/dates where/when they did.

thanks in advance, really expecting your answers

 

[Stephen Dunstan]

Extremely Rare Birds In The Western Palearctic would seem an obvious one to recommend though it's a few years old now.

 

[Stonefaction]

I have a copy of the book in French and suggested an English language copy to a publisher for Bloomsbury books (I think) who I follow on Twitter (and who posts on here), and he said there were no plans for one, unfortunately. Despite my mostly forgotten schoolboy French I can more or less translate the captions. I wrote the names in English on each bird to make it easier for me to remember which bird is which as there were a few I didnt recognise. For what it costs, I'd suggest getting a copy anyway. I think there might be some smartphone apps now that can translate text in photos, - though I might have imagined that - so it would be possible to translate any caption required in that way (or you can type it out and get it translated via google translate etc if those apps don't actually exist).