To me, these types books are both very interesting but also too bulky to take into the field. Thus, mostly useful to check photos at home. So in a way it falls into the category that I most likely will have to refrain from buying.
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To me, these types books are both very interesting but also too bulky to take into the field. Thus, mostly useful to check photos at home. So in a way it falls into the category that I most likely will have to refrain from buying.
Melanie
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David Brewer: Birds New to Science: 50 Years of Avian Discoveries
Scheduled for September 2017
http://www.nhbs.com/title/207614/birds-new-to-science
Scheduled for September 2017
http://www.nhbs.com/title/207614/birds-new-to-science
John Cantelo
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Me too - it's not every day an old mate who sat behind you in class has a field guide coming out. It's a fantastic effort - esp. as it's so unusual for a top FG to have but a single author these days - but Phil's a stickler for detail and it's bang up to date taxonomically. I'm rather pleased though that, if all goes well, I'll have just pipped him at the post by getting a book I've co-authored out just before him.
The book I most want to see otherwise is the new Oz guide if it comes up to the promised standard since, in my view, none of the current guides cut the post-Collins Bird Guide mustard. I exclude the photographic guide to WP birds on the grounds that it's clearly a myth ....
StevePreddy
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What's that oinking noise coming from the sky?
DMW
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In addition to those mentioned above:
- A high quality Philippines field guide with up-to-date taxonomy,
- A West Africa field guide matching the quality of the Stevenson and Fanshawe guide to East Africa,
- I hope Phil Gregory's New Guinea guide meets expectations - I have found some of the illustrations in Pratt and Beehler 2nd edition surprisingly inaccurate in the field,
-I think there is zero need for another Australian field guide. While none of the available options are great, Australian birds provide relatively few identification challenges.
- I'm not sure a single comprehensive field guide for Brazil is all that desirable, for visiting birders at least. The WCS "biome" guides published so far are pretty good, and if you are doing a trip to the Atlantic Forest, for example, it's nice not to have to wade through dozens of e.g. Amazonian species.
- A high quality Philippines field guide with up-to-date taxonomy,
- A West Africa field guide matching the quality of the Stevenson and Fanshawe guide to East Africa,
- I hope Phil Gregory's New Guinea guide meets expectations - I have found some of the illustrations in Pratt and Beehler 2nd edition surprisingly inaccurate in the field,
-I think there is zero need for another Australian field guide. While none of the available options are great, Australian birds provide relatively few identification challenges.
- I'm not sure a single comprehensive field guide for Brazil is all that desirable, for visiting birders at least. The WCS "biome" guides published so far are pretty good, and if you are doing a trip to the Atlantic Forest, for example, it's nice not to have to wade through dozens of e.g. Amazonian species.
Mickster1000
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Looks like the new Australian guide will be published in May 2017 by Bloomsbury in the UK and Princeton in the US.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/australian-bird-guide-9781472912350/
https://www.amazon.com/Australian-G...=1-1&keywords=AUSTRALIAN+BIRD+GUIDE+MENKHORST
The price looks reasonable.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/australian-bird-guide-9781472912350/
https://www.amazon.com/Australian-G...=1-1&keywords=AUSTRALIAN+BIRD+GUIDE+MENKHORST
The price looks reasonable.
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John Cantelo
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It's no secret that most of the illustrations in the Lynx field guides are largely culled from the "HBW" (albeit supplemented by additional images) so if you like them then they should serve you well. I can't agree, though, about the Oz guide as I found a number of the poorly drawn illustrations in several guides and in some a lack of local races confusing. Unlike guides with top notch illustrations, I found it more of a challenge to get a feel for the bird families prior to getting there. Nor would I entirely agree that identification challenges in Australia are quite as few as you suggest.
DMW
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John, fair enough. I'm not saying that the last word on Australian field guides has been published, but I think it's very low on the list of "parts of the world needing a decent field guide". I do think the number of ID challenges in Australia are relatively few. That doesn't mean non-existant, but compared to most parts of the world, I think there are few ID challenges for an experienced birder.
John Cantelo
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Another greatly anticipated book is the English version of the 'Aves de Espana' field guide despite its use of a functionally illiterate but scientifically 'pure' taxonomy. See http://www.lynxeds.com/es/producto/birds-spain
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Interesting, indeed. Any preview plates would be most welcome to quench my most pressing curiosity. In particular, I wonder whether, for once, truly ALL of Australia will be included. But then, those species from remote places might be considered to be mere ballast by the majority of potential buyers.
I'm very much looking forward to this one: https://www.amazon.com/Peterson-Sounds-Eastern-America-Guides/dp/0547905580 and would hope for something similar in the future for Europe. A job for The Sound Approach, perhaps?
(with apologies for mistakenly posting this on the Indonesia field guide thread earlier)
(with apologies for mistakenly posting this on the Indonesia field guide thread earlier)
Andy Adcock
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I posted some time ago regarding Argentina, that I was told by my regular book supplier that this is not now happening. Jim Martin says it is and he should know better than my supplier I guess?
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Andy Adcock
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Melanie
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Peter Menkhorst (A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia) will publish his Australian Bird Guide in May
https://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/the-australian-bird-guide
https://www.andrewisles.com/all-stock/publication/the-australian-bird-guide
Telephoto Paul
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zoltannemeth
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Andy Adcock
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Argentina, Pearman, now given as August next year on one site, probably more realisticly NHBS don't try to forecast the date.
http://www.wildsounds.com/products/2746-Birds-of-Argentina-and-the-South-West-Atlantic.shtml
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http://www.wildsounds.com/products/2746-Birds-of-Argentina-and-the-South-West-Atlantic.shtml
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