The Birds of the Western Palearctic

  • D. W. Snow &
  • C. M. Perrins
Oxford University Press, £150

The imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca), from a plate in The Birds of the Western Palearctic edited by D. W. Snow and C. M. Perrins (Oxford University Press, £150). At more than 1,600 pages comprising two volumes, this is the “concise” updated edition of a nine-volume handbook published between 1977 and 1994.