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This DVD condenses footage from some of the very best European sites onto one DVD. It runs for 3 hours 15 minutes and features 255 species. As with all DVDs of Bird Image there is a full menu so you can go straight to any species, plus 2 soundtracks (so you can have just the natural sounds if you want).
Featured Sites:
The Netherlands - February
Eilat, Israel - March
Extramadura, Spain - April
Pyrenees, Spain - April
Lesvos, Greece - April
Eastern Poland - May
Central Finland - June
North Norway - June
Falsterbo, Sweden - October
Northern Israel - October
Watch a trailer below:
Species list:
Mute Swan
Whooper Swan
Bean Goose
Pink-footed Goose
White-fronted Goose
Lesser White-fronted Goose
Greylag Goose
Barnacle Goose
Brent Goose
Red-breasted Goose
Ruddy Shelduck
Common Shelduck
Teal
Mallard
Pintail
Garganey
Pochard
Tufted Duck
Scaup
Common Eider
King Eider
Steller's Eider
Long-tailed Duck
Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Goosander
Black Francolin
Red-throated Diver
Black-throated Diver
Cory's Shearwater
Yelkouan Shearwater
Gannet
Cormorant
Shag
Pygmy Cormorant
Little Bittern
Night Heron
Squacco Heron
Little Egret
Great White Egret
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Black Stork
White Stork
Glossy Ibis
Spoonbill
Greater Flamingo
Honey Buzzard
Black Kite
Red Kite
White-tailed Eagle
Lammergeier
Egyptian Vulture
Griffon Vulture
Black Vulture
Short-toed Eagle
Marsh Harrier
Hen Harrier
Pallid Harrier
Montagu's Harrier
Goshawk
Sparrowhawk
Levant Sparrowhawk
Common Buzzard
Steppe Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard
Rough-legged Buzzard
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Steppe Eagle
Booted Eagle
Osprey
Lesser Kestrel
Kestrel
Red-footed Falcon
Peregrine
Little Crake
Baillon's Crake
Moorhen
Common Crane
Demoiselle Crane
Little Bustard
Great Bustard
Black-winged Stilt
Avocet
Collared Pratincole
Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Lesser Sand Plover
Caspian Plover
Golden Plover
Spur-winged Lapwing
Little Stint
Temminck's Stint
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Ruff
Common Snipe
Jack Snipe
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Curlew
Common Redshank
Spotted Redshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Turnstone
Red-necked Phalarope
Arctic Skua
Long-tailed Skua
Black-headed Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Armenian Gull
Kittiwake
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Black Tern
White-winged Tern
Whiskered Tern
Common Guillemot
Brunnich's Guillemot
Razorbill
Black Guillemot
Puffin
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Namaqua Dove
Common Cuckoo
Great Spotted Cuckoo
Scops Owl
Eagle Owl
Hawk Owl
Pygmy Owl
Little Owl
Ural Owl
Great Grey Owl
Long-eared Owl
Nubian Nightjar
White-breasted Kingfisher
Common Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
European Bee-eater
European Roller
Hoopoe
Wryneck
Grey-headed Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
White-backed Woodpecker
Three-toed Woodpecker
Red-backed Shrike
Turkestan Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Masked Shrike
Lesser Grey Shrike
Southern Grey Shrike
Iberian Grey Shrike
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Palestine Sunbird
Red-billed Chough
Jay
Siberian Jay
Azure-winged Magpie
Magpie
Nutcracker
Jackdaw
Hooded Crow
(Common) Raven
Golden Oriole
Sombre Tit
Blue Tit
Penduline Tit
Calandra Lark
Thick-billed Lark
Crag Martin
Barn Swallow
Cetti's Warbler
Graceful Prinia
Scrub Warbler
Greenish Warbler
Western Bonelli's Warbler
Wood Warbler
Willow Warbler
Lesser Whitethroat
Orphean Warbler
Barred Warbler
Common Whitethroat
Dartford Warbler
Subalpine Warbler
Ruppell's Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler
River Warbler
Savi's Warbler
Olivaceous Warbler
Olive-tree Warbler
Icterine Warbler
Aquatic Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Marsh Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Wallcreeper
(Eurasian) Nuthatch
Kruper's Nuthatch
Rock Nuthatch
Short-toed Treecreeper
Spotted Flycatcher
Rufous Bush Chat
Black Bush Robin
Thrush Nightingale
Nightingale
Bluethroat
Red-flanked Bluetail
Black Redstart
Whinchat
Stonechat
Isabelline Wheatear
Northern Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Cyprus Wheatear
Black-eared Wheatear
Black Wheatear
Rock Thrush
Blue Rock Thrush
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Collared Flycatcher
Pied Flycatcher
Spanish Sparrow
Dead Sea Sparrow
Yellow Wagtail
Citrine Wagtail
White Wagtail
Tawny Pipit
Tree Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Water Pipit
Chaffinch
Brambling
Citril Finch
Common Redpoll
Parrot Crossbill
Scarlet Rosefinch
Pine Grosbeak
Lapland Bunting
Cirl Bunting
Rock Bunting
Ortolan Bunting
Cretzchmar's Bunting
Cinereous Bunting
Rustic Bunting
Black-headed Bunting
Corn Bunting
Customer Reviews:
DVD Guide to Birdwatching in Europe
by Keith Betton in the United Kingdom (24/01/2012)
In common with Paul Doherty's previous DVDs this is a highly professional production focusing on ten birding locations and featuring 255 species – many of them appearing more than once.
Starting with a trip to the bitterly cold Netherlands in February the main interest is geese at Lauwersmeer National Park with extra material from other sites. This a good chapter to focus on as we get to see the birds up close in detail which is supported by an informative commentary explaining the plumage features of the main goose species. Raptors are also studied, and again we learn how to separate species and also where they have probably come from, and how long they may stay. Several locations are named but you couldn't just
So moving on through the year the DVD continues by actually leaving Europe and taking us to Eilat on the Red Sea coast for raptor and wader migration in March. We then visit Extramadura in Spain for the early breeding season followed by the Pyrenees straight after for higher altitude birding. The Greek island of Lesvos is featured in great detail with several sub-sites getting their own treatment. May's destination is eastern Poland with the Bialowieza Forest and Biebrza Marshes. Central Finland provides an absolute owl-fest in June, while a visit to Varanger Fjord in northern Norway is a must for summering sea ducks and nesting auks. July to September are not featured, but October is busy, starting with a trip to Falsterbo. Here in southern Sweden the autumn migration is in full swing and the enormous numbers of migrating passerines is amazing – and here I think the power of DVD footage really shows itself as finches, tits and pipits swarm past almost colliding with the camera on occasions. Finally the remainder of October is spent back in Israel, with migration in the Beit She'an valley.
The ten chapters can be viewed separately if preferred, and a very useful feature is the facility to select a species from the menu and go straight to the appropriate footage of it. The commentary is helpful, but if you just want to enjoy the wild sounds uninterrupted then there is a facility to select just that sound track.
There is a simple map at the start of each chapter but by comparison with some more specific products on the market local site information included is at a minimum. However if you are looking for European holiday ideas then this is a great DVD to provide inspiration even though it selects just a few sites from eight countries. There are 50 countries in Europe so the scope for more DVDs is considerable and I look forward to seeing them.
