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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1528860" data-attributes="member: 2844">I've never been impressed by photo-guides largely for the reasons expressed by Jurek.  However, despite his sensible caveats, this one looks as though it might be the first to give more conventional guides a run for their money.  For me the plate of Red-necked Phalarope and that of Wilson's Petrel  are the most impressive - perhaps because there's less 'interference' from the background.  I found the 'red eye' in some of the owl shots off putting.  I'm not convinced either by the book's proclaimed maxim of "proportional representation" so that rare birds get less space.  I'd prefer a field guide that gave more space on the basis of difficulty of ID/variability of species rather than how common they are.  It's when you find something outside your experience that you need the detail!   I wonder too about how bulky it will be given that commoner species appear to have a plate each.Even so I'm very much looking forward to this book's arrival - particularly given the author/photographer's apparent involvement in the excellent Shorebirds guide,</blockquote>