The Birds of the Western Palearctic
- The Birds of the Western Palearctic
"The Birds of the Western Palearctic" [Its full title is "Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic" ] (often referred to by its initials "BWP") is a nine-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of the western portion of the Palearctic zoogeographical region.
BWP is a comprehensive regional avifauna for the Western Palearctic. It consists of 9 volumes, the first published in 1977 and the ninth in 1996. BWP's format and breadth influenced the development of regional avifaunas for other parts of the world, notably "The Birds of Africa".
A two-volume Concise Edition was produced in 1998. Both the full and concise editions were published by Oxford University Press.
The boundary used for the region included (a) Iceland, but not Greenland, (b) all of Macaronesia, (c) North Africa, (d) the northern parts of the Arabian peninsula, (e) Iraq and Kuwait, but not Iran, and (f) Russia west of the Urals. A number of subsequent papers Fact|date=January 2008 have questioned the appropriateness of this boundary, particularly its southern and southeastern delimitations. Roselaar (2006), analysing the breeding distributions of 1037 passerine bird species in the Palearctic region, and northern parts of the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, proposed a southern boundary somewhat to the south of that used by BWP, but excluding the southernmost parts of Arabia. [Roselaar, Kees (2006) The boundaries of the Palearctic region "British Birds" 99(12): 602-18]
A journal, "BWP Update" was published for a number of years following the completion of BWP.
Two electronic versions of BWP have been produced. The first, produced by OUP, suffered from a number of technical problems Fact|date=January 2008 and customers were offered a refund. The second, known as "BWPi" was produced by Birdguides Ltd.
Footnotes
Bibliography
* Snow, D. W. & Perrins, C. M. (1998). "The Birds of the Western Palearctic" Concise Edition. ISBN 0-19-854099-X.
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