Kenn Kaufman's new "Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding"
It's listed as in stock at Amazon, though this link says pub date is April 19: http://www.kaufmanfieldguides.com/Advanced.htm
It's a follow-up to his 1990 Peterson "Advanced Birding" guide, but looks as though it's more than an update, but a different book intended to appeal to a wider audience. Hope that doesn't mean it waters down the "advanced" aspects of the original guide (which I thought was very good), but just adds more material that would also be relevant to those not seeking an "advanced" guide. But the discussion at the link above does seem to suggest that the detailed discussion of specific ID problems has been eliminated from the guide.
The original guide was and remains a very useful compendium of extended treatment of difficult ID problems. A lot of the info is otherwise scattered in various journal articles and across the internet. One thing that sounds like a definite improvement over the previous edition is the addition of many photos. The line drawings in the 1990 version were not quite sufficient to get the most one could out of the text.
Best,
Jim
It's listed as in stock at Amazon, though this link says pub date is April 19: http://www.kaufmanfieldguides.com/Advanced.htm
It's a follow-up to his 1990 Peterson "Advanced Birding" guide, but looks as though it's more than an update, but a different book intended to appeal to a wider audience. Hope that doesn't mean it waters down the "advanced" aspects of the original guide (which I thought was very good), but just adds more material that would also be relevant to those not seeking an "advanced" guide. But the discussion at the link above does seem to suggest that the detailed discussion of specific ID problems has been eliminated from the guide.
The original guide was and remains a very useful compendium of extended treatment of difficult ID problems. A lot of the info is otherwise scattered in various journal articles and across the internet. One thing that sounds like a definite improvement over the previous edition is the addition of many photos. The line drawings in the 1990 version were not quite sufficient to get the most one could out of the text.
Best,
Jim
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