Your most anticipated futures books (3 Viewers)

[twilighter]

A new, very welcomed book on Deers coming in July
A Guide to the Deer of the World

A Guide to the Deer of the World

Buy A Guide to the Deer of the World (9781846893629): NHBS - Charles Smith-Jones, Susana González, Noam Werner, Quiller Publishing

www.nhbs.com

 

[Murray Lord]

I believe Jose Ramon Castello (author of Bovids / Canids / Felids) may be working on a deer book too.

 

[twilighter]

I believe Jose Ramon Castello (author of Bovids / Canids / Felids) may be working on a deer book too.

Yes, according to the author the publishing year is 2023.

 

[Melanie]

Well, this book is rather expensive but it seems worth buying. Just published.

Bienvenue, Valérie and Chare, Nicholas (eds.). (2022). Animals, Plants and Afterimages: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction. Berghahn Books. 460 pp.

www.amazon.com/Animals-Plants-Afterimages-Representing-Extinction/dp/1800734255/

 

[Fritz73]

Two new field guides will be published by Princeton:

Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. G. Howell to be Published: 23 May 2023

Birds of Costa Rica

A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Costa Rica

press.princeton.edu

Birds of Belize by Steve N. G. Howell and Dale Dyer to be Published (US): 25 Apr 2023 and (UK): 30 May 2023

Birds of Belize

A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Belize

press.princeton.edu

 

[njlarsen]

Good news for those wanting to visit. Possibly a bit sad that it will reduce the income for a smaller publisher (Zona Tropical) on their CR book.
Niels

 

[Swissboy]

Two new field guides will be published by Princeton:

Birds of Costa Rica by Dale Dyer and Steve N. G. Howell to be Published: 23 May 2023

Birds of Costa Rica

A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Costa Rica

press.princeton.edu

Birds of Belize by Steve N. G. Howell and Dale Dyer to be Published (US): 25 Apr 2023 and (UK): 30 May 2023

Birds of Belize

A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Belize

press.princeton.edu

I wonder whether that is an offshoot of the Vallely - Dyer book. Lots or all illustrations would already be available. But they'd have to shrink the format considerably to really make the books attractive. Just making them thinner would not be what is needed.

I'd actually have preferred if Howell had first finished his Mexico book! His old "Bible" is not field-optimized. Something the size of the Fagan - Komar volume for the area just south of Mexico would be desirable.

 

[njlarsen]

Something the size of the Fagan - Komar volume for the area just south of Mexico would be desirable.

That book would have been so much better and more useful if they had included the about 10 Yucatan endemics. As it is, it is almost perfect for a person visiting the Mexican part of Yucatan but it is missing those few. (and yes, I probably wrote this somewhere already).
Niels

 

[pbjosh]

That book would have been so much better and more useful if they had included the about 10 Yucatan endemics. As it is, it is almost perfect for a person visiting the Mexican part of Yucatan but it is missing those few. (and yes, I probably wrote this somewhere already).
Niels

I really like this guide. I think some folks get caught up in the fact that Vallely & Dyer is "better" as a reference, that covers all the same species roughly as well, and lose track of the fact that Vallely & Dyer is, essentially, too large to carry in the field. However, I also agree it would have been excellent if the Fagan & Komar had covered the Yucatan, it would have made a lot of sense and it was a bit of a missed market opportunity I should think. C'est la vie, we are more or less spoiled for Central American field guides now already, and apparently two more are coming. What a change 10 years makes! Brazil and the Amazon are left as the true last frontier in Neotropical field guides!

 

[njlarsen]

I really like this guide. I think some folks get caught up in the fact that Vallely & Dyer is "better" as a reference, that covers all the same species roughly as well, and lose track of the fact that Vallely & Dyer is, essentially, too large to carry in the field. However, I also agree it would have been excellent if the Fagan & Komar had covered the Yucatan, it would have made a lot of sense and it was a bit of a missed market opportunity I should think. C'est la vie, we are more or less spoiled for Central American field guides now already, and apparently two more are coming. What a change 10 years makes! Brazil and the Amazon are left as the true last frontier in Neotropical field guides!

I also like the Fagan and Komar book. I used it on a trip where I essentially were in the southern part of Mexican Yucatan peninsula and it worked fine there.
Niels

 

[James Lowther]

That book would have been so much better and more useful if they had included the about 10 Yucatan endemics. As it is, it is almost perfect for a person visiting the Mexican part of Yucatan but it is missing those few. (and yes, I probably wrote this somewhere already).
Niels

i used the old Birds of Belize guide when i visited Yucatan many years ago, as you did i just needed to research a few endemics (and maybe a small number of additional species?) to be properly prepared, otherwise everything was covered adequately
James

 

[Mysticete]

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.

 

[Swissboy]

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.

Yes, the overlap is considerable as can be seen from the Birds of Central America book (Vallely & Dyer). Yet there is also more diversity than one might suspect. From the North, the North American avifauna provides more than just many migrants that migrate differently far. There is also some South American influence particularly in the southern countries of the area.

 

[Swissboy]

That book would have been so much better and more useful if they had included the about 10 Yucatan endemics. As it is, it is almost perfect for a person visiting the Mexican part of Yucatan but it is missing those few. (and yes, I probably wrote this somewhere already).
Niels

We had copies of the color plates from the Mexico "Bible" along for Cozumel. The texts could be consulted in the car as well. Worked out great, but I agree, those species should have been included in the fine and compact book. They could have included in the title "and the Yucatan peninsula".

Regarding that book's cover, it always bothers me to see that large "Peterson" dominating both front and spine. Next come the authors in size, and finally with a poorly readable gold tone the actual title of the book.

 

[Mysticete]

We had copies of the color plates from the Mexico "Bible" along for Cozumel. The texts could be consulted in the car as well. Worked out great, but I agree, those species should have been included in the fine and compact book. They could have included in the title "and the Yucatan peninsula".

Regarding that book's cover, it always bothers me to see that large "Peterson" dominating both front and spine. Next come the authors in size, and finally with a poorly readable gold tone the actual title of the book.

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.

 

[Mysticete]

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.

 

[Melanie]

A new, very welcomed book on Deers coming in July
A Guide to the Deer of the World

A Guide to the Deer of the World

Buy A Guide to the Deer of the World (9781846893629): NHBS - Charles Smith-Jones, Susana González, Noam Werner, Quiller Publishing

www.nhbs.com

I've just purchased this book. The photographic work is really good. And there are comprehensive overview tables for the subspecies. BTW the author has excluded the extinct Schomburgk's deer.

 

[twilighter]

I've just purchased this book. The photographic work is really good. And there are comprehensive overview tables for the subspecies. BTW the author has excluded the extinct Schomburgk's deer.

Great! I am still waiting for my copy. I remember that the author was searching for pictures of all extant spieces in Inaturalist. Did he include pictures of all Muntjac and Neotropical deer species?

 

[Melanie]

There are not photos for all deer species. Williamson's chevrotain is only represented by a pelage photograph, the Anhui musk deer only by an illustration. According the recently rediscovered Silver-backed chevrotain he has used the well-known photographes which are also known from the internet.

 

[twilighter]

There are not photos for all deer species. Williamson's chevrotain is only represented by a pelage photograph, the Anhui musk deer only by an illustration. According the recently rediscovered Silver-backed chevrotain he has used the well-known photographes which are also known from the internet.

Thank you for the information!