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mountain man
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I love Helm books...
Pipits and Wagtails - Amazing
Thrushes - Amazing
Owls of the World - haven't got
Gulls of Europe, Asia and N America - Those in the know say it's still riddled with mistakes and thus not that reliable. Still nothing else is available at the moment as good as it, so well worth getting as well.
Pipits and Wagtails - Amazing
Thrushes - Amazing
Owls of the World - haven't got
Gulls of Europe, Asia and N America - Those in the know say it's still riddled with mistakes and thus not that reliable. Still nothing else is available at the moment as good as it, so well worth getting as well.
Stewart J.
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Agree with Tom plus Owls of the World is excellent.
Stewart
Stewart
Gruff Dodd
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Anyone know if any more of these are in the pipeline? - they were really churning them out for a while, but it seems to have all gone a bit quiet now.
mountain man
Guest
Larks by the Pipits+Wags authors is to be published at some point soonish in the not too distantish future...
Edward woodwood
Member
chats is in pipeline too
babblers which a Norwich friend was working on got shelved - it would have been a blinding book - the worlds babblers, laughingthrushes etc.... maybe one day it will be resurrected.
well worth purchasing - many now going cheap on Amazon i think
Tim
babblers which a Norwich friend was working on got shelved - it would have been a blinding book - the worlds babblers, laughingthrushes etc.... maybe one day it will be resurrected.
well worth purchasing - many now going cheap on Amazon i think
Tim
Edward woodwood
Member
Yes Hanno
It was Craig Robson working on it so you can bet it would have been a very good treatment. I remember watching him reorganising trays of specimens and picking out incorrectly labelled stuff! It was remarkable; made me realise how little i know. Some of the plates were stonking. I went to Tring with a friend who was doing the Fire-tailed Myzornis plate and handled some specimens of that species. A weird feeling to have such an incredible bird right there in front of you. Still not seen one!
It was Craig Robson working on it so you can bet it would have been a very good treatment. I remember watching him reorganising trays of specimens and picking out incorrectly labelled stuff! It was remarkable; made me realise how little i know. Some of the plates were stonking. I went to Tring with a friend who was doing the Fire-tailed Myzornis plate and handled some specimens of that species. A weird feeling to have such an incredible bird right there in front of you. Still not seen one!
Gruff Dodd
Well-known member
Any idea why it was shelved? - I'd have thought that would be a popular title.
Also, Tom, do you know if the Larks one will be a whole world job or just Western Pal or something like that (like the Pipits one was, I think?)
Also, Tom, do you know if the Larks one will be a whole world job or just Western Pal or something like that (like the Pipits one was, I think?)
Hanno
Ho Ho Ho
I should think writong an authorative guide on the Babblers and Laughingthrushes would be major work. Also, the demand for that book might not be as high as you think, I should assume that titles with WP birds, where the majority of the birders are, sell much better. Still a bloody shme, maybe we should get a campaign going to make Helm reconsider.
mountain man
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Hi Gruff,
Larks will cover Europe, Asia & North America.
Tom
Larks will cover Europe, Asia & North America.
Tom
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