For the first time ever the best-selling RSPB Handbook of British Birds is being packaged with the most advanced multimedia reference tool available to UK birders, the RSPB Birds of Britain and Ireland CD-ROM. The handbook has been completely revised and updated. It provides a 'biography' of the 300 commonest British birds and covers all aspects of field identification plus behaviour, breeding biology, population, status and longevity. A distribution map is provided for each species. In addition the CD-ROM contains audio recordings of typical sounds each species. It also contains an ID database and a guide to the best birding areas in Britain.