It's just a good two weeks to the release of the new 7th edition of this excellent FG (National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, its complete and a bit clumsily long full name).
I wonder how we all will fare with it. I'm opening this thread to hopefully get all the comments/opinions under one heading. Official release date will be September 12. 16 additional pages will make the book a bit thicker. All the hummingbirds have apparently been repainted, thus clearly something I'm more looking forward to than the new systematics that will split falcons from the rest of the raptors and instead placing them next to the parrots.
I wonder how we all will fare with it. I'm opening this thread to hopefully get all the comments/opinions under one heading. Official release date will be September 12. 16 additional pages will make the book a bit thicker. All the hummingbirds have apparently been repainted, thus clearly something I'm more looking forward to than the new systematics that will split falcons from the rest of the raptors and instead placing them next to the parrots.