The cosmos bird guide

Collins Bird Guide (Subtitle: All kinds Europe, North Africa and the Middle East ; Swedish Original title: Fågelguiden ; the first German-language edition under the title of the new Cosmos bird guides ; in professional circles after the main author and "The Svensson" called) is a leader for the determination of birds in Europe , North Africa and the Middle East . The concept, descriptive texts and maps come from the Swedish ornithologist Lars Svensson with the support of Peter J. Grant; the illustrations were created by Dan Zetterström and Killian Mullarney.

With over 900 species, the guide comprehensively describes the bird world in Europe and the Mediterranean, including migrants, exceptional phenomena and naturalized species. The most important characteristics for identifying the animals are shown in more than 4,000 color drawings. Maps show distribution areas and migration routes. Despite the extensive content, the book is kept compact in format so that it can also be used as a "field guide", i. H. to be carried when observing in the field.

Svensson's bird guide is internationally regarded as one of the most comprehensive, current and best works of this kind and has established itself as the standard work of ornithology. More than 700,000 copies of the first edition alone were sold, more than 70,000 of them in Germany. The German edition is recommended by NABU , among others .

history

The guide was first published in 1999 under the original Swedish title Fågelguiden . It soon became a popular guide for bird watchers across Europe and has been translated into 14 languages. The book was published in German by Christine Barthel, published by Franckh-Kosmos (KOSMOS for short) under the title Der neue Kosmos-Vogelführer . The internationally popular English version was published by HarperCollins UK (Collins for short) under the title Collins Bird Guide .

A second, revised and expanded edition followed ten years after the original edition. The revision had become particularly necessary because new findings at the turn of the millennium had led to considerable changes in the ornithological taxonomy . In German, the second edition, again published by Kosmos, now translated by Peter H. Barthel, had the abbreviated title Der Kosmos-Vogelführer (without “new”).

Since 2012, in addition to the normal edition, a “superb edition” has also been offered in large format.

Remarks

1. ↑ Inconsistent spelling of the title, mostly with spaces , i. H. without a hyphen, sometimes (e.g. on the spine of the book) but also with a hyphen.
2. ↑ Not to be confused with the Kosmos bird guide for on the go (Frank Hecker, Katrin Hecker: Kosmos bird guide for on the go . Kosmos, 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-11130-7 . )
3. ↑ ^{a b c} The " new " in the title of the first German edition was apparently added in order to distinguish it from the older Kosmos-Vogelführer (Bertel Bruun, Arthur Singer, Claus König : Der Kosmos-Vogelführer. The birds of Germany and Europe in color . Kosmos, 1972, ISBN 3-440-03760-6 . ). With the second edition, the "new" in the title was dropped.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Important bird guides updated . In: BUND magazine . No.  2/2011 . BUND , S. 44 ( online as PDF ). Online as PDF ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Book reviews: Der Kosmos Vogelführer. (No longer available online.) Working group at the Hamburg State Bird Protection Center, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
3. ↑ Bernd Nicolai: How museums work in practice: bird collections and identification books . In: The falcon . No. 52, 2005 , pp. 284–287 ( full text online as PDF ). Full text online as PDF ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Lars Svensson, Peter J. Grant, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström: Fågelguiden: Europa och Medelhavsområdets fåglar i fält . Bonnier, Stockholm 1999, ISBN 91-0-056976-3 .
5. ↑ Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström: The new Kosmos bird guide: all species of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East (=  Kosmos nature guide ). Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07720-9 (Swedish: Fågelguiden . Translated by Christine Barthel).
6. ^ Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterström, Killian Mullarney, Peter J. Grant: Collins Bird Guide . HarperCollins, London 1999, ISBN 0-00-219728-6 .
7. ^ Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterström, Killian Mullarney: Fågelguiden: Europes och Medelhavsområdets fåglar i fält . 2nd Edition. Bonnier Fakta, Stockholm 2009, ISBN 978-91-7424-039-9 .
8. ↑ The Cosmos Bird Guide. (No longer available online.) KOSMOS-Verlag, archived from the original on June 24, 2014 ; accessed on June 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
9. ↑ Lars Svensson (text, maps), Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström (illustrations and captions): The Kosmos bird guide: all species of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East . 2nd Edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-440-12384-3 (Swedish: Fågelguiden . Translated by Peter H. Barthel).
10. ^ Lars Svensson, Dan Zetterström, Killian Mullarney: Der Kosmos-Vogelführer. Great edition . Kosmos, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-13461-0 .
11. ↑ The Kosmos Bird Guide Large Edition. (No longer available online.) KOSMOS-Verlag, archived from the original on August 22, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.