RARE comprehensive and vastly illustrated monograph on the birds and avifauna of Israel by the Israeli ornithologist and writer Hadoram Shirihai (b.1962), a consummate birder who added 50 previously undocumented new bird species to the List of birds of Israel, and 10 new species to the Western Palearctic list of birds, wrote many bird identification papers, mostly published in English in magazines such as `British Birds` and `Birding World`, and co-wrote with David Christie the `Macmillan Birder`s Guide to European and Middle Eastern Birds`. The book includes general chapters describing the country, its habitats and its birdlife, detailed texts on each species, with maps and bar-charts showing regional and seasonal patterns of occurrence, as well as taxonomic aspects, with full subspecific field and museum data for all Israel and the Levant presented in detail (to a level of specific identification). Contains numerous color photographs. 280x225mm. LXXXXIX+692 pages. Black cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Jacket rubbed. Jacket edges/corners wrinkled and torn/taped. Cover corners slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This monumental work on birds and avifauna of Israel, invaluable both to the visiting birdwatcher and to the more studious ornithologist, is in good condition.