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brianfm · Sep 22, 2006

Hi

I am a recent convert to Dragonflies. How have I gone all these years without taking much notice? I have a basic fieldguide to British Dragonflies which has proven very usefull for id purposes, but I would like to read something with a little more depth to it on areas of biology and ecology. Anyone with any tips please?

Cheers.

Andrew Whitehouse · Sep 22, 2006

Probably not quite what you're after but the new field guide to Dragonflies of Britain and Europe by Dijkstra and Lewington is not only worth getting as a field guide but also has a lot of information on ecology, habitats, sites etc. Not particularly a book to sit down and read but impressively detailed.

Keith Dickinson · Sep 22, 2006

Hi Brian..try this one...Harry Eales recommends and i've got it...very good indeed.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=64122
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brianfm · Sep 23, 2006

Thanks Andrew and Keith. In fact I have the field guide that Harry recommends Keith and agree it is very good. I went for that one rather than the one that covers Europe Andrew as I thought as beginner I might be a bit confused although I reckon on getting it in the near future I think. I take your point about it covering ecology etc in some depth and I best take a look at it. I just wondered if there was a book that could be recommended that covered such areas in even more detail.

thanks for the help.

myotis · Sep 30, 2006

brianfm said:
I just wondered if there was a book that could be recommended that covered such areas in even more detail.

If you want to spend the money, the best, and only book as far as I know, is

Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata at £62.50

ISBN 0946589771

At 840 pages its not bad value per page. but it is serious text book so you need to work at reading it.

Graham

brianfm · Sep 30, 2006

myotis said:
If you want to spend the money, the best, and only book as far as I know, is

Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata at £62.50

ISBN 0946589771

At 840 pages its not bad value per page. but it is serious text book so you need to work at reading it.

Graham

Thanks Graham

One for the future I think so I will make a note of it. At the moment I am sticking to Dragonflies of the World/Jill Silsby £26 ISBN 056591654
It seems to give a good overview. More than the fieldguides but not too scientific. Lots of good photographs too.

Cheers

myotis · Oct 1, 2006

brianfm said:
Thanks Graham

One for the future I think so I will make a note of it. At the moment I am sticking to Dragonflies the World/Jill Silsby £26 ISBN 056591654
It seems to give a good overview. More than the fieldguides but not to scientific. Lots of good photographs too.

Cheers

I didn't know about this one, so just had a look at the table of contents on Amazon. It looks good. I'm tempted.

Graham

Swissboy · Oct 15, 2006

myotis said:
I didn't know about this one, so just had a look at the table of contents on Amazon. It looks good. I'm tempted.

Graham

Looking around, I think this book should be bought NOW if one wants it. The price at Amazon UK seems the best, by far. That is, I checked .com and .de, no more. But it looks like this book will soon be only available via left-overs or used?

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