Where in the world? - buildings & scenery in the Collins 3rd Edition (1 Viewer)

[John Cantelo]

A bit of fun ... the 2nd edition of the Collins Guide had by my count 4 illustrations that included drawings of buildings (plus a couple showing chimney stacks alone). Of these only one is readily identifiable which is the sketch of the Giralda of Seville Cathedral with Lesser Kestrels buzzing around it (although the sketch of Great-grey Owl in 'taiga barn territory' feels like a drawing of a real place).

The 3rd edition retains these drawings (although one taiga barn has gone AWOL) but has four more generic drawings of assorted buildings (or small parts thereof) plus six more that may be identifiable - Montagu's Harrier has a windmill in the background, Common Swift is flying around a rather distinctive domed building (which looks vaguely familiar), Plain Swifts are shown with a clifftop village in the background (Madeira?), Little Swift is flying above a distinctly Moorish wall (Marrakech?), Chimney Swift is dashing around a distinctive institutional (educational?) looking building and Corn Bunting has a church (eastern Europe?) in the background that looks as if was drawn from life. Both editions show a variety of mountains/cliffs/etc that may represent an actual place but are probably not sufficiently distinctive to be identifiable. The 3rd edition has more 'habitat vignettes' than its predecessor which makes it both more attractive (and informative).

So as a bit of fun can anyone identify these buildings or, less likely, some of the locations?

 

[jurek]

I did not see the 3rd edition, but in the 2nd edition there were some distinctive backgrounds:
Bulwers Petrel: Island of Selvagem Grande.
Fan- tailed Raven: distinctive layered rocks of Rift Valley in Jordan.
Namarqua Dove: strands of barbed wire in Israel.

and there are goofs:
Greater Spotted Eagle with leaf rosettes of tropical papyrus, rather than reeds found in temperate Europe.
Houbara Bustard with 'Bedouin party' looking like 60 years from the past.

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

A bit of fun ... the 2nd edition of the Collins Guide had by my count 4 illustrations that included drawings of buildings (plus a couple showing chimney stacks alone). Of these only one is readily identifiable which is the sketch of the Giralda of Seville Cathedral with Lesser Kestrels buzzing around it (although the sketch of Great-grey Owl in 'taiga barn territory' feels like a drawing of a real place).

The 3rd edition retains these drawings (although one taiga barn has gone AWOL) but has four more generic drawings of assorted buildings (or small parts thereof) plus six more that may be identifiable - Montagu's Harrier has a windmill in the background, Common Swift is flying around a rather distinctive domed building (which looks vaguely familiar), Plain Swifts are shown with a clifftop village in the background (Madeira?), Little Swift is flying above a distinctly Moorish wall (Marrakech?), Chimney Swift is dashing around a distinctive institutional (educational?) looking building and Corn Bunting has a church (eastern Europe?) in the background that looks as if was drawn from life. Both editions show a variety of mountains/cliffs/etc that may represent an actual place but are probably not sufficiently distinctive to be identifiable. The 3rd edition has more 'habitat vignettes' than its predecessor which makes it both more attractive (and informative).

So as a bit of fun can anyone identify these buildings or, less likely, some of the locations?

And in the plates where there are the hirundines, on the pages of the crag martins/rock martins. There appears to be a rock wall or cliff vignette. It gives me the impression of Sicily in Nebrodi or Etna.

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

A bit of fun ... the 2nd edition of the Collins Guide had by my count 4 illustrations that included drawings of buildings (plus a couple showing chimney stacks alone). Of these only one is readily identifiable which is the sketch of the Giralda of Seville Cathedral with Lesser Kestrels buzzing around it (although the sketch of Great-grey Owl in 'taiga barn territory' feels like a drawing of a real place).

The 3rd edition retains these drawings (although one taiga barn has gone AWOL) but has four more generic drawings of assorted buildings (or small parts thereof) plus six more that may be identifiable - Montagu's Harrier has a windmill in the background, Common Swift is flying around a rather distinctive domed building (which looks vaguely familiar), Plain Swifts are shown with a clifftop village in the background (Madeira?), Little Swift is flying above a distinctly Moorish wall (Marrakech?), Chimney Swift is dashing around a distinctive institutional (educational?) looking building and Corn Bunting has a church (eastern Europe?) in the background that looks as if was drawn from life. Both editions show a variety of mountains/cliffs/etc that may represent an actual place but are probably not sufficiently distinctive to be identifiable. The 3rd edition has more 'habitat vignettes' than its predecessor which makes it both more attractive (and informative).

So as a bit of fun can anyone identify these buildings or, less likely, some of the locations?

And I would've really liked a vignette for the gyrfalcon, chasing a covey of rock ptarmigans. Or a new one for the lanner, it chasing a houbara or subduing it.

 

[alishakihs]

I did not see the 3rd edition, but in the 2nd edition there were some distinctive backgrounds:
Bulwers Petrel: Island of Selvagem Grande.
Fan- tailed Raven: distinctive layered rocks of Rift Valley in Jordan.
Namarqua Dove: strands of barbed wire in Israel.

and there are goofs:
Greater Spotted Eagle with leaf rosettes of tropical papyrus, rather than reeds found in temperate Europe.
Houbara Bustard with 'Bedouin party' looking like 60 years from the past. Run 3

The 3rd edition retains these drawings.