Superb Bird Guides
I have been birdwatching for more than 30 years and as I have become a more serious ornithologist I have become more and more aware of how good the books in the Helm series are, but there is no point in waiting to become an experienced birdwatcher before getting these books; start with the best.
I have written lenses on How to be a Good Birdwatcher and Where to Watch Birds in Thailand, now it is time for me to share this lens which lists all the bird books in the Helm series that I know of.
Helm Identification Guides - Bird Family Accounts
The Helm Identification Guides are ornithological masterpieces, focusing on specific bird families and containing an unbelievable amount of information on their subjects. No serious ornithologist should be without at least some of these books.
I personally use "Pipits and Wagtails", "Raptors of the World" and "Shorebirds" regularly and they frequently help me sort out difficult identification problems.
Raptors of the World (Helm Identification Guides) by James Ferguson-Lees, David A. Christie
The newest addition to the highly regarded Helm Id more...1 point
Shrikes and Bush-shrikes (Helm Identification Guides) by Tony Harris
Shrikes are a group of spectacular predators, many more...0 points
Starlings and Mynas (Helm Identification Guides) by C.J. Feare, Adrian Craig
The starling family contains some of the most comm more...0 points
Finches and Sparrows (Helm Identification Guides) by Peter Clement
Among the most familiar and colorful of birds, fin more...0 points
New World Blackbirds. The Icterids. Helm Identification Guides. by Alvaro and Peter Burke Jaramillo
New World Blackbirds is a comprehensive guide to t more...0 points
Sunbirds (Helm Identification Guides) by Robert A. Cheke, Clive Mann
The dazzling insect- and nectar-eating sunbirds in more...0 points
Terns of Europe and North America (Helm Identification Guides) by Klaus Malling Olsen
Terns are elegant sea and marshland birds that liv more...0 points
Seabirds (Helm Identification Guides)
This is the definitive book on the seabirds of the more...0 points
Sylvia Warblers (Helm Identification Guides) by Hadoram Shirihai, Gabriel Gargallo, Andreas Helbig
The culmination of more than a decade of work, thi more...0 points
Tanagers (Helm Identification Guides) by Morton L. Isler, Phyllis R. Isler
The tanagers of the Western Hemisphere, write orni more...0 points
Thrushes (Helm Identification Guides) by Peter Clement, Ren Hathaway
This is the first book in nearly one hundred years more...0 points
Crows and Jays (Helm Identification Guides) by Steve Madge
In no other group of perching birds has evolution more...0 points
Warblers of Europe, Asia and North Africa (Helm Identification Guides)
Warblers are the archetypal "little brown bir more...0 points
Parrots (Helm Identification Guides) by Mike Parr, Tony Juniper
This superbly illustrated book is the first create more...0 points
Helm Field Guides
The term "In the field" refers to being outside in any wildlife habitat be it forest, beach, open sea or wetlands.
Field Guides usually contain a large number of high quality plates depicting the birds along with a little text and often accompanied by a distribution map for each species.
The Field Guides published by Helm are particularly good and I own and regularly use a number of them. Whilst I have not looked at all the field guides listed here, I have used enough of them to know that they are of consistently high quality and would be confident in recommending any of them.
Helm Field Guides - Asia
Birds of Northern India (Helm Field Guides) by Richard Grimmett, Tim Inskipp
From the wet evergreen forests and alpine peaks of more...0 points
Birds of the Middle East (Helm Field Guides) by R.F. Porter, S. Christensen, P Schiermacker-Hansen
Birds of the Middle East is the first comprehensiv more...0 points
Some Photos of Asian Birds
Helm Field Guides - Africa
Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania (Helm Identification Guides) by Dale A. Zimmerman, Don Turner, David Pearson, Ian Willis, Doug Pratt
Here is the definitive guide to the birds of Kenya more...0 points
Some African Birds
Helm Field Guides - South & Central America
Birds of Cuba (Helm Field Guides) by Orlando H. Garrido, Arturo Kirkconnell
The richness and diversity of Cuban birdlife featu more...0 points
A Guide to the Birds of the Galapagos Islands (Helm Field Guides) by Isabel C. Castro
Made famous by Charles Darwin's work on evolution more...0 points
Birds of Venezuela (Helm Field Guides) by Steven L. Hilty
Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1 more...0 points
Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Helm Field Guides) by F.Gary Stiles, Alexander F. Skutch
Costa Rica, a country of no larger than West Virgi more...0 points
Birds of Chile (Helm Field Guides) by Alvaro Jaramillo
This is the essential new field guide to the birds more...0 points
Birds of Belize (Helm Field Guides) by H. Lee Jones
"This is a first-class book that will enable more...0 points
A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (Helm Field Guides) by Richard Ffrench
A visit to Trinidad and Tobago has introduced coun more...0 points
Some South/Central American Birds
Helm Field Guides - North America
Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America (Helm Field Guides) by David Sibley
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the n more...0 points
Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern North America by David Sibley
The Sibley Guide to Birds has quickly become the n more...0 points
Some North American Birds
Helm Field Guides - Oceania
Some birds of Oceania
Helm Field Guides - Europe
Birds of the Mediterranean (Helm Field Guides) by Paul Sterry
The Mediterranean is remarkably rich with birds, n more...0 points
Some European Birds
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