The best book about loon family? (1 Viewer)

[päättö]

Can you suggest me, what is the best book that tells me about all 5 species of loon family? I'm mostly interested in moulting, plumages ageing etc..

 

[njlarsen]

Are you thinking about something like this?

Identification Guide to North American Birds, Part II by Peter Pyle

Part II: Anatidae to Alcidae - by Peter Pyle: A highly technical guide for researchers, used for birds in hand. Data includes plumage, molt patterns, measurements (wing, tail, bill, tarsus, mass), sexing, and ageing information.

www.avinet.com

Niels

 

[päättö]

Are you thinking about something like this?

Identification Guide to North American Birds, Part II by Peter Pyle

Part II: Anatidae to Alcidae - by Peter Pyle: A highly technical guide for researchers, used for birds in hand. Data includes plumage, molt patterns, measurements (wing, tail, bill, tarsus, mass), sexing, and ageing information.

www.avinet.com

Niels

Thanks. Something like this, I definitely have to check this one up. Do you know does this have all the 5 loon species or only the ones that are common in the USA? I didn't find a species list from the internet and I'm curious, how much does this have European or Western palearctic species?

 

[njlarsen]

I only have the other volume, so do not know positively.

Given that regular field guides to the US list all five, I assumed this would also do so.

It is a publication for the American area.
Niels

 

[Andy Adcock]

Are Divers covered in any ringing manuals, they would be the best source of material on moult strategies?

 

[njlarsen]

The alternative I could think of would be something like Birds of Western Palearctic which seems to be available still as an app, see discussions:

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Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds vs. Birds of the Western Palearctic Concise Edition

I've been pondering about buying one of these books: 1. The Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds (Shirihai & Svensson) 2. The Western Palearctic Birds Concise Edition (Snow & Perrins) The WPB (Snow & Perrins) is quite old. Is there any point in buying it over the HWPB? I tried googling for...

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Niels

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Wasn’t there a major illustrated paper in one of the more scholarly identification mags (Birding World, Dutch Birding or one of the Scandinavian mags) by Svensson?

 

[jalid]

Lommar by Lars Jonsson and Toralf Tysse, published 1991, if you read Swedish and can find it somewhere. It covers only four species - Jonsson added Pacific Loon in a later article in Vår Fågelvärld. (But of course, a lot have been written about pacifica after that in various European magazines).

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Apologies for confusing Svensson and Jonsson.