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The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere , it stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas , and North Africa .
The Palaearctic region has been recognised as a natural zoogeographic region since Sclater proposed it in 1858. The oceans to the north and west, and the Sahara to the south are obvious natural boundaries with other realms, but the eastern boundary is more arbitrary, since it merges into another part of the same realm, and the mountain ranges ...
A. Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests; Afghan Mountains semi-desert; Alai–Western Tian Shan steppe; Alashan Plateau semi-desert
Western Palaearctic This page was last edited on 18 March 2023, at 22:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Rock partridge; Red-legged partridge; Barbary partridge; Houbara bustard; Red-necked nightjar; Western swamphen; Mediterranean gull; Yellow-legged gull (be); Audouin's gull (be); European storm-petrel (be)
A Manual of Palaearctic Birds. Vol. 1–2. London: self-published. Volume 1, Volume 2; Dresser, Henry Eeles (1910). Eggs of the Birds of Europe, Including All the Species Inhabiting the Western Palaearctic Region. Vol. 1–2. London: self-published. volume 1 (text), volume 2 (plates and their keys) (issued in 24 parts beginning in 1905)
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The Birds of the Western Palearctic (full title Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: The Birds of the Western Palearctic; often referred to by the initials BWP) is a nine-volume ornithological handbook covering the birds of the western portion of the Palearctic zoogeographical region.