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 The second edition of the Birdwatch Checklist of the Birds of the Western Palearctic provides an authoritative list for the region up to 2000, as well as forming a useful and user-friendly working document for the field birder. The checklist aims to reflect current taxonomic thinking, as well as English names, at the time of its publication in 2000. The boundaries of the Western Palearctic used in this checklist follow those set by The Birds of the Western Palearctic (BWP) by Cramp et al. In brief, this covers Europe east to the Urals and the Caspian Sea, Turkey and Iraq, and extends south to northern Arabia and North Africa (including coastal northern Mauritania) and out to the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. The species listed are all those that have been recorded in an apparently wild state, including ‘historical’ records but excluding extinct species. Species have therefore been omitted if all their occurrences equate broadly to Category D on the BOU’s British List because of doubts about the possibility of captive origin or ship-assistance. In a very few cases of recent records not yet formally accepted by national bodies, species have been included where it is understood that acceptance or the publication of full details is imminent or very likely. The sequence follows the traditional Voous order, which is familiar from BWP and other major works. In an era of so much splitting (and rather less lumping), most major splits that have been proposed or seem likely to gain wide acceptance are included, so that forms which are now generally separated or for which this acceptance seems imminent (for example Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans) are listed as full species, while those whose separate status remains thus far more doubtful are given trinomials and are marked * to indicate their relationship to one another.Ordering informationCopies of The Birdwatch Checklist of the Birds of the Western Palearctic can be ordered from Solo Publishing Ltd, The Chocolate Factory, 5 Clarendon Road, London N22 6XJ (tel: 020 8881 0550; fax: 020 8881 0990). The price is £2 per copy (post-free in the
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