[johnpat555]

I'm going to spend some time in Argentina and am having trouble finding a good bird book covering this specific part of the world. Any ideas?

[Fritz73]

For Argentina there are to Field Guides available:

'Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica'
by Martin R. de la Pena, Maurice Rumboll

'Birds of Argentina & Uruguay. A Field Guide'
by Tito Narosky, Dario Yzurieta

The first one is available at Amazon.com.
The second one is more widely used by local birders.

[KCFoggin]

Hi John and welcome to BirdForum.net from those of us on staff here.

I see Fritz has already given you some suggestions on guides. I'm sure there will be others as well. Enjoy your trip and please do let us know what you find.

[Edward woodwood]

Hiya

first suggestion by Fritz is excellent.

There is also an annotated checklist by Mark Pearman that is very good value.

Otherwise it's Birds of South America Vols 1 and 2 (not too big but not really for the field)

[Rasmus Boegh]

Having used both guides mentioned by Fritz, I have a clear preferance for Narosky & Yzurieta. It certainly does have it's shortcommings and is nowwhere near the quality of the recently published guides for Ecuador, Chile & Venezuela. However, to my knowledge there are no significant mistakes in it (compared to the guide by Rumboll & de la Pena that has several).

EDIT: I just checked NHBS and subbuteo for the Narosky & Yzurieta guide. Subbuteo doesn't have anything but the Spanish version available, while NHBS supposedly still has copies of the English version:

http://www.nhbs.com/xbscripts/bksrch?r=31830;l=3