Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East (Princeton Field Guides) Hardcover – 1 Jan. 1974

Good guide in first class condition, came quickly.

Delivery, quality and field guide content was perfect. It might be better if the package was put into our letter box.

excellent informative and covers all relevant species.Only caveat is a new edition will be available soon rendering this edition less useful..

Great for bird ID for middle east

Great book

After an earlier edition of this guide was long out of print and increasingly hard to find and expensive even as a second hand copy, the publication of this new, softcover edition was most welcome!I found this book just about perfect: the size and weight are still convenient for field-use, and editing is very well done, with the range maps and essential status and habitat info right opposite the color plates illustrating each species, though longer, detailed information on appearence and voice are to be found separately at the back.Most importantly, the illustrations are excellent and plentiful, usually with several pictures of each species showing various races, sexes, juveniles, summer and winter plumage, birds in flight, etc. as justified by variation.I kind of missed (more) information on the birds' ecology, habits and taxonomy, but I guess omitting these was the price that had to be paid for a not-too-bulky field guide.I can only wish I could have carried this book on my previous trips to the Middle East - it will certainly be with me on the next ones!

Reminds me of some of the more obscure guides from the 1970's. Plates and data are not always together, information on many species is sparse and the index doesn't help you unless you know what you are looking for.Absolutely indispensible because it's all there is, but could be much, much better.While some of the plates are beautiful they are often quite over-stated (Indian Roller, for example) making a quick ID more difficult than it needs to be.On the whole, if you are going that way, you need this book, but you'll wish you had a field-guide.

As expected after the description