Ethical publisher WILDGuides, working alongside authors Dylan Walker and Graeme Cresswell, is pleased to announce the production of a new forthcoming field guide entitled ‘Whales and Dolphins of Europe’, further details of which are given at the end of this email.

It is our aim to produce as comprehensive a guide as possible, but to do that we will need the expertise of many colleagues across Europe that share a wealth of field experience. We would like, in particular, to hear from anybody who has noted interesting behaviours or identification features in the cetaceans that they study which are not in the published literature.

WILDGuides is a not-for-profit ethical publisher that converts book sales into financial support for nature conservation charities. We are therefore unable to pay photographers for image use, although each photographic submission used will be fully credited (including website details if required), and the photographer will receive a free copy of the book. We currently require the following images taken from European or other North Atlantic waters:

Further details on Whales and Dolphins of Europe

The first comprehensive photographic guide to the cetaceans of Europe - covering the waters between the Canary Islands in the south, and the high Arctic in the north, and including the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic Seas. Provides detailed information on all 35 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises, focusing on identification, behaviour and distribution. Includes 35 remarkable colour plates showing typical views of cetaceans as most people see them - from land or from a boat. These have been produced using the latest digital image technology, and include photographs of some species that have never before been published. Features a comprehensive section on behaviour, packed with amazing photographs, which aims to help the reader get more out of their whale watching experience than ever before. Also includes detailed sections on where, when and how to go whale watching, with chapters on the key whale watching locations in the region. A focus on information gathered from the region and images with typical European terrestrial backgrounds will give this book a fresh feel when compared to previous ‘world’ guides, resulting in the first must-have field guide for whale watchers and researchers throughout Europe.