This sturdy and comprehensive guide to British and European sparrows is as informational as it is visually stunning. With nearly 200 pages filled with colour photos, charts, graphs and maps, it is the quintessential guide for nature and bird lovers. Sparrows, while often common and ubiquitous, are robust and resourceful, able to survive in even the worst conditions. This book provides a complete, accurate and user-friendly guide to the five species found in Europe, with a particular focus on the popular and common House Sparrow. The book is extremely thorough and contains sections on taxonomy, habitat, movements, life cycle, food, predators, threats and conservation of sparrows. There is also a useful identification guide to European species with a couple pages dedicated to each breeding species, including photographs.