Guide to Birds of Brazil (1 Viewer)

Oregonian

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• May 2, 2014

• #1

Is anyone familiar with this book? It looks nice.
Rolf Grantsau, Guia Completo para Identificação das Aves do Brasil - Vol 1 e 2

I have Ber van Perlo's guide, as well as Ridgely's Passerines, and illustrated checklist of non-passerines, (and Sick's Birds in Brasil), but can you have too many?

We're off to Rio in a couple weeks, and a friend there asks if we have Grantsau's book.

 

ptickner

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• May 3, 2014

• #2

I looked at it, and it does indeed look very nice. The problem for me is that it is totally in Portuguese. I was hoping for at least English names in the descriptions, but I didn't see any. My Spanish is okay, but my Portuguese is terrible.

You may have seen this already, but this site has a good review (in Portuguese), but you can look at lots of the pages:

https://www.ventoverde.com/site/guia-completo-para-identificacao-das-aves-do-brasil.html

I hope this helps!

 

Oregonian

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• May 3, 2014

• #3

Thanks for the link. I see it has Latin names, which I should learn anyway, but haven't set to memory yet.

Jeff

 

dacol

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• May 7, 2014

• #4

I haven't either used or even seen this book but I have Grantsau's book on Brazilian hummingbirds (out of print) which is excellent. If the high standards of that book are present in the new book I would recommend it.