Helm Identification Guides

The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of <a href="/facts/Bird/RJF6zwLP">birds</a>. The series include two types of guides, those that are:

<ul><li>Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls Guide, which covers only species in Europe, Asia, and North America)</li>
<li>Geographic, including all bird species in an area (e.g., The Birds of the West Indies)</li></ul>
Early volumes were sometimes published under the <a href="/facts/Croom_Helm/aSwcES11">Croom Helm</a> or <a href="/facts/Christopher_Helm_Publishers/1DDWvrln">Christopher Helm</a> imprints. In addition, a parallel set of guides, very similar in design, was published by <a href="/facts/Pica_Press/1DDWvrln">Pica Press</a> in the 1990s (marked Pica in the list below); Pica was later absorbed into <a href="/facts/A_%26_C_Black/1DDWvrln">A & C Black</a> (now part of <a href="/facts/Bloomsbury_Publishing_Plc/TSWtV2Bl">Bloomsbury Publishing Plc</a>), and these guides are now marketed as a single series. A completely revised version of the initial Seabirds has been published by <a href="/facts/Lynx_Edicions/qA302GT3">Lynx Edicions</a>.
Several of the books have won the <a href="/facts/British_Birds_(magazine)/AHVqAttj">British Birds</a> Bird Book of the Year award.
A list of titles in the series, in chronological order of publication, is as follows:

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Helm Identification Guides