Birds of Kuwait. A Comprehensive Visual Guide

Pope, Mike and Zogaris, Stamatis

ISBN 10: 9963281109 / ISBN 13: 9789963281107

Published by Biodiversity East, 2012

About this Item

Still in original shrink wrap. Dustwrapper, small folio ( 12.5" x 10" ), pp.414. Over 1300 photographic illustrations covering 408 bird species. Published by Biodiversity East and Kuwait Ornithological Rarities Committee, and funded by the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company ( KUFPEC ). Serves as a guide and conservation manual, with some details of bird distribution, population levels etc, and a guide to favourable sites to view the birds. One account of the book suggested itwas a limited edition but without details of numbers published - it is certainly very scarce in hardback book form and seemingly unavailable to purchase. Apart from a smallish split to the shrink wrap it is as new and unopened. A heavy book weighing c3500g when suitably parcelled, thus exceeding the default weight of 1000g for the postage quotation, and invoking a request for the extra postage at cost at time of order ( or quote can be can be supplied on request in advance ) if to be sent overseas or by UK post.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Birds of Kuwait. A Comprehensive Visual Guide
• Publisher: Biodiversity East
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9963281109
• ISBN 13: 9789963281107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

418 page hard-cover coffee-table book on the aviauna of the State of Kuwait. Subtitled 'A Comprehensive Visual Guide', the substantial 'Birds of Kuwait' brings to life every one of the 390 or more species recorded in a beautifully assembled catalogue of images. The great bulk of the book is comprised of the species photos, many of them reproduced at a good size, or with the subjects shown in some detail in multiple images, and often both. The majority are taken in Kuwait (those that aren’t are country-captioned accordingly), and for each species there is a short summary of status within the country. The quality of the images is almost unfailingly stunning, many of the passerines being reproduced even larger than life size, thereby showing different plumages in great detail, and also making this work valuable in an identification context. The country’s specialities are here in all their glory, of course, from Socotra Cormorant and Red-wattled Lapwing to White-cheeked Tern and Basra Reed Warbler. This book is a feast for the eyes and, with introductory texts on the lives of wild birds in Kuwait, taxonomy and identification, observing and photographing birds, conservation and important sites, there is substance too.