Cover; Copyright; Contents; 1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. A brief history of Iberian avifaunal studies; 4. Iberia: geography and climate; The Iberian Peninsula and its islands; The geography of mainland Iberia; The Balearic Islands; Other peninsular archipelagos; Climate; The Bioclimatic Zones. Temperature and Precipitation; Climate change; 5. Habitats; Mediterranean evergreen plant communities; Eurosiberian plant communities; Other natural habitats; Man-made habitats; 6. The Iberian avifauna; Breeding species; Breeding birds of the Iberian climatic regions.
Recent changes in the Iberian breeding avifaunaWintering species; Migrants and migration; Migrant species; Migration; Seabird movements; Trans-Pyrenean movements; Landbird migration at the Strait of Gibraltar; 7. Introduction to the species accounts; 8. The Systematic List; 9. Category D species; Appendices; 1. Category E1 species; 2. Breeding species of conservation concern; 3. Scientific names of animals and plants mentioned in the text; 4. List of Spanish regional bird reports; 5. List of Spanish and Portuguese rarity reports; References; Indexes.