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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalat" data-source="post: 1666258" data-attributes="member: 65207">Hi,the book you linked is the latest edition of Robsons "A Field Guide to the Birds of South- East Asia" from 2008. It contains a whole lot of taxonomic updates and new species to the region compared to the inital edition of the 2000 version. I suppose what you have is the version from 2005. This is a condensed and updated version of the 2000 book, where text of species accounts is always together with the plates. The 2000 and 2008 versions have more detailed text, but the text is separate from the plates, which makes the book much more difficult to use in the field. So while the 2005 edition is perfect for use in the field, the 2008 version will indeed give you addtional information in the text. Plates are almost entierly the same as in the 2005 version.The newsletter of Birdlife Indochina contains an extremly detailed review of the 2008 book: <a href="http://www.birdlifeindochina.org/sites/default/files/Babbler%2031%20(%206Nov09).pdf" target="_blank">http://www.birdlifeindochina.org/sites/default/files/Babbler 31 ( 6Nov09).pdf</a>To add confusion, there is different publishers for all books in UK (New Holland) and US (Princeton) which you may both find in amazon. The only difference is the cover.</blockquote>