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  1. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Since we are on the topic of anticipated books and also Central America, is there any information on when the new Howell Mexico guide might come out? Searching on the internet mostly just gets me the original version, and nothing on the new one.
  2. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    That's marketing for you, although I think with the abundance of field guides the Peterson name doesn't mean as much as it used to, especially since I think Sibley and Nat Geo have supplanted that book in popularity.
  3. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    My impression from Howell's recent article in North American Birds is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides are an outgrowth of the Mexico guide; I would imagine there is quite a bit of overlap in avifauna of those regions overall.
  4. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    And Terror Birds! How much more exciting would birding be if the some of the birds you hunted for could also hunt you?
  5. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Given the appeal of dinosaurs to some folks and birds to others, it makes sense that it might be profitable to do a book that combines both. Personally I would love to see an equivalent volume on Cenozoic birds, which are not as well covered.
  6. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    This is the lynx facebook announcement: "We are happy to announce the forthcoming title “Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide” by Juan Benito and Roc Olivé. Due Summer 2022. Birds are the most diverse tetrapod group today, but they have a rich and complex evolutionary history...
  7. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    While obviously not useful for birding specifically, the upcoming "Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide" definitely has my interest. I guess when you run out of extant birds to illustrate, you start publishing books on fossil species...
  8. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I got my copy of All the Birds of the world the other day. I love scrolling through it and seeing the variation within different genera. You really get to appreciate the diversity present in birds in a way that a list of names doesn't provide.
  9. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    We have one local "regular" bookstore, and it's a chain, and it's actually the next town over, so about a 30 minute drive. I try whenever possible to buy books in person there, but other than the super popular guides (like Nat Geo or Sibley), they seldom have much of a selection of natural...
  10. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Yeah....I don't think books are going away, although I fear bookstores might be. We physical book collectors are probably going to be a more niche group than in the past though.
  11. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Yeah I splurged and bought ATBOTW too, due to the reduced price and free bird phylogeny poster. Of course I am still waiting on the mammal checklist, so who knows when the former will get here.
  12. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Honestly, I kind of want to see the Handbook of ... of the world series cover reptiles and amphibians next. I would find that more interesting than these guidebooks
  13. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Well...looking at the taxonomy in Oceanic Birds of the World just makes me more and more intrigued by the long in development Howell guide to Birds of North America. I mean seriously, that book has become the "Winds of Winter" of the field guide world.
  14. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    hence the inclusion of not extinct globally. Looking through online sources, other than Great Auk and (probably) Slender-billed Curlew, you have Holocene extinction of (not sure the extinct chronology is very good) of Ibiza Rail (from Ibiza of course) and maybe Cretan owl, a big possibly...
  15. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I think the point generally is to highlight what we have lost, so people become more concerned about what we COULD lose.
  16. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    National Geographic has for many many editions included extinct birds in the back, put in with the ultra-rare vagrants. Does Europe even have any (recent) confirmed extinct birds? I know the Mediterranean region suffered a wave of bird extinction, but thousands of years ago.
  17. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    The new Peterson guide arrived in the mail today! Like many birders, I like to collect field guides and related books, even if they are more likely to sit on my shelf than ride around in the car with me. Sibley and Nat Geo are still my first choices, the former because it's the single best book...
  18. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    There are a couple of threads about the proposed order here. Although the irony of things are that if the book is delayed enough, we will reach the point where the ordinal relationships are largely settled and we won't be making massive reorganizations much anymore, rendering a lot of the...
  19. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    So...still waiting for this. Does anyone know what happened with this? There have been some great Ian Lewington plates that I have seen floating around. I think Brian Sullivan is maybe the main author now? It's just odd because Howell and co made a huge deal about this, with some articles...
  20. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    To be fair, I am a die hard Nat Geo (for overall coverage) and Sibley (which is more useful for tough IDs). So I suspect it will also be a home reference. Cost was an argument some made about Hawaii during the initial debates, as some listers felt it was not fair to add what was seen as an...
  21. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    From a logisitical perspective, the majority of the Alaskan specialities are on parts of the Alaska or islands that have no vehicle access, so they might as well be not contiguous. I mean I just did a quick and dirty price check...for me, the cost of flying to Alaska and flying to Hawaii are...
  22. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/74?casa_token=ZweHBVytUPYAAAAA:id1GrLvlv2VoxtLNkZuT3tSROVygl4K3JySRoT-PCFYvdR5bnKrqbWbVKBTxRhL-mLH1bI-F6IcR The authors looked at distributions, phylogenetic relationships, and phylogenetic uniqueness of all terrestrial mammals, amphibians and...
  23. Mysticete

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    It should be noted that Hawaii was included in the earlier editions. Presumably the creation of the ABA area caused it to be jettisoned in the first place. Why bother including all of those Asian strays? Most birders are never going to visit Gambell or the Pribiloffs, so clearly a waste of...
  24. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Biogeographic studies actually have been consistently linking Hawaii to North America for some time now. That last big attempt to redefine biogeographic provinces recovered Hawaii as within North America. In fact, the only native birds of non NA origins are the monarchs (South Pacific) and the...
  25. Mysticete

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Right now the book I am most anticipating is the new version of the Peterson Field Guide to North America. It will be the first field guide (that I am aware of), post ABA area change, to incorporate Hawaii. So it will be nice to have everything in one book.
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