Wagtails are noted for their bold plumage patterns and extensive racial variation. Pipits are a large and difficult group which invariably causes vexation to birders on both sides of the Atlantic. This guide covers the 26 species of northern hemisphere pipits and wagtails in detail. It treats identification in the field and in the hand, and includes colour plates, detailed distribution maps and sonograms of songs and calls.
Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America
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Per Alström is Professor of Ornithology at Uppsala University’s Department of Ecology and Genetics and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. A keen birder since his childhood in southwest Sweden, Per started travelling abroad at an early age,and he has spent many years in the field in some 20 countries in Asia, as well as multiple trips to North America and parts of Africa. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles (including many on difficult-to-identify bird species), was the senior author of two highly acclaimed books, A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe (1991) and Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America (2003), and co-author of chapters in two volumes of Handbook of the Birds of the World (2004, 2006). Per is Advisor to the IOC World Bird List, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the international ornithological journal Avian Research. Per Alström is Professor of Ornithology at Uppsala University’s Department of Ecology and Genetics and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. A keen birder since his childhood in southwest Sweden, Per started travelling abroad at an early age,and he has spent many years in the field in some 20 countries in Asia, as well as multiple trips to North America and parts of Africa. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles (including many on difficult-to-identify bird species), was the senior author of two highly acclaimed books, A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe (1991) and Pipits and Wagtails of Europe, Asia and North America (2003), and co-author of chapters in two volumes of Handbook of the Birds of the World (2004, 2006). Per is Advisor to the IOC World Bird List, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the international ornithological journal Avian Research.