RSPB Pocket Birds of Britain and Europe by D.K. Publishing is the 5th Edition and it was a great book if you love watching birds that visit your garden or you may see when you are out for a lovely walk in the country side or just walking out and about.
This book was an easy-to-use RSPB pocket companion to European and British birds is the ideal field guide for novice birdwatchers and experienced birders alike, which would be great to keep in your back pocket or your handbag.

I really enjoyed looking for birds that I saw when I went out for a family walk with my nephew.

Great book packed full of information. Wouldn’t have expected anything less from a DK book.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

I love birds and it contains so much information about the birds that live in the UK and Europe. And with the book being a pocket edition it's easier to take it wherever and it will help you to identify that mysterious bird.

I am familiar with the DK Pocket garden Bird Watch Book and this is just as good. It concentrates on the 327 most commonly seen species in Europe. Two short sections at the start helpfully illustrate bird anatomy and identification features. The six remaining sections are, Passerines; Non passerines and Near passerines; Wading Birds; Waterfowl; Seabirds; and Owls and Birds of Prey. There is also a url and password which gives internet access to 60 different bird sounds to aid identification. Each bird is beautifully illustrated and labelled, with details of voice, nesting, feeding and similar species. there is also a helpful map to show its range.

What a terrific book but then with DK you don't expect anything else.

Clearly laid out and concise in detail. The book is well written with lots of information on the birds. I did find it interesting to see birds of Europe as well as the UK.

I would recommend getting this in book form rather than digitally as my only issue was scrolling on my phone.

Thanks to DK and Net galley for the ARC Copy of the book. My review is my own opinion.

A fresh feel and update of an old family friend of a book. We’ve had each edition as our children and grandchildren each wanted their own copy. As always, this book did not disappoint: compact in size, well laid out and illustrated and easy to navigate and find information.

This is such a perfect book to have on you when you’re out and about in nature! Such detailed images with loads of info on each bird. I spend a lot of time out walking and this would be great to have on me to identify birds!

A very fine way to pack a lot of info onto a small page, especially when you include the password to the several dozen audio files that come free with this. Given a new edition every five years or so, 2022 sees another launch of this book, which is a lovely guide to our feathered friends. My own taste to improve it would have been for it to stick to the UK and therefore have more about less in it, but for common birds across Europe, this is wonderful.

Anything and everything is here if needed to help the spotter – flight illustrations, great photography of the bird in situ, maps of its spread, annotations to all the visuals telling you all you might need, song and call description, nest material, breeding and eating habits... A lot of the text, as well, is not telling you what to look out for, but what makes it different to something else. So we know a particular tail movement is a chiffchaff and not the oh-so similar willow warbler, and we can be assured that just because it moved and we missed the red face it may well have been a goldfinch with its woozy, swoopy flight levels (my description). There certainly are more terns to pick out than you might have thought.

As I say Europe is perhaps too great a scope for such a book – the moustached warbler's largest summer population would appear to be in Ukraine, and certainly nowhere north of the Alps, and now I know there is a spotless starling I also know there's a good flight involved to get to see it. But if you want a reasonable – and packable, most importantly – guide to a lot of common and some slightly less common birds, this for want of knowledge of anything better would be a prime choice. Four and a half stars, and the lammergeier lamenting its absence.