Birding Italy - Birdwatching in Italy

A birdwatcher's guide to Italy

"A birdwatcher's guide to Italy. first edition september 2005"

by Luciano Ruggieri and Igor Festari with introduction by Steve Webb

ISBN 84-873334-86-5

303 pages with B&W maps. BIRDWATCH : "There is certainly no better guide available at the moment"

The most updated guide to finding birds in Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily. The site account section covers 100 different important birding spots and further 40 are cited as nearby areas, given detailed information about the best time for birding, how to get there, site maps and species lists.The most important Italian birds” section deals with 119 different species giving concise information about their distribution, status and habitat. A very useful “where to watch” paragraph helps the reader to find, specifically, the right birding site. A chapter about endemic or sub-endemic subspecies for Italy is also provided. If you are visiting Italy for reasons other than birding and have limited free time, this guide helps you to choose the nearest and most interesting site. Alternatively, a more complete trip to Italy can be planned to take in the most important Italian species including Pygmy Cormorant, Rock and Barbary Partridge, Lanner, Wallcreeper, Pine Bunting, Isabelline Wheatear and many others.

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What are others saying about the book?

"Another important point to make is that the authors have put considerable work into making the guide as up-to-date as possible. Thanks also to ever increasing number fo observations submitted by the Italian EBN birdwatchers, all recent relevant data has been gathered systematically. (...) In conclusion, I would defintely recommend this book to anyone visiting Italy who whishes to include birdwatching in their journey. There is certainly no better guide available at the moment."

“This is an excellent and novel guide. It combines the traditional “where to watch” format with an annotated checklist with cross referencing. So, after the useful overview introductory chapters the species section typically gives the taxonomy, status & distribution in Italy and Europe, population and habitat and then gives a list of site numbers where it may be seen! This is a great departure from the norm where one either gets a site guide or a annotated checklist but hardly ever both and rarely cross-referenced both ways.(...)”

“Das Buch ist sehr gut gemacht und weist eine sehr praktishe Zweitelung auf. Im ersten Teil werden Phaenologie, Bestandszahlen in Italien und Europa. Taxonomie und die besten Beobatchungsplaezte der interessantesten Arten zusammengestellt, die in Italien beobachtet werden koennen. Der sweite Teil des Buches liefert dann die Beschreibungen der "hot spots" fuer Vogelbeobachter. Die Angabe sind in der Regel sehe genau und fast immer sind die dargestellten Karten eine hilfreiche Ergaenzung. (..)”

“Bei Lynx Edition ist dieser aktuelle, in English abgefasste Fuehrer zu den avifaunistisch interessanten Gebleten Italiens, einschiesslich Sardiniens und Siziliens, erschienen. (..) Das Buch ist ein sehr spezialieller Reisefuehrer und eine wertvolle Hilfe fuer jeden Vogelbeobachter, der der englishen Sprache maechtig ist.”