The Crows

Franklin Coombs

The European Corvids form a more varied and colourful family of birds than is often realised.The native British species range from the sleek black raven,crow and rook to the grey-headed jackdaw,red-billed chough (plate shown opposite),black and white magpie and multi-coloured jay.Equally striking are the continental species-the Alpine chough,azure-winged magpie,siberian jay and nutcracker.

mapThis is the first book to be devoted entirely to these eleven species.Franklin Coombs,who has been studying the crow family for the past forty years,has distilled a vast amount of detailed research and has added the fruits of his own observations and fieldwork.The result is an authoritative and systematic,yet readable account of the life cycle and behaviour of each species :its field characteristics,a description of the adults,nestlings,juveniles and moult;distribution,posture and voice,and territory,nest site,nest building and eggs to fledging of young;roosting:predators,parasites,morbitity and mortality...

Hardback;1978 1st ed.255pp.line drawings,maps & b/w photos.4 colour plates.Fine in d/w £14.00 *2 copies in stock 20th sept 2001

* See also Crows and Jays ................ 'The Birds of Bardsey'

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