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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1395254" data-attributes="member: 2844">"The  New Birdwatchers’ Pocket Guide” I mentioned is a thoroughly revised and re-illustrated update of the old 'Mitchell Beazley' guide.   This time all of the plates are by Peter Hayman (the old guide used an inferior artist for the ducks and some other groups because, I'm told, Hayman was too painstakingly slow for the publishers.  The second improvement is that it now includes pretty much all regular European species (excepting speces like Y-b & Dusky Warblers that are essentially vagrants).  I think it's a superb little guide and not just for beginners either. The Kingfisher guide (aka Larousse guide) by John Gooders with illustrations by Norman Arlott & Alan Harris never quite fulfilled its promise.  Later editions even tried to give more space to problem species.  It should have been great but somehow falls flat - too few illustrations and a so-so ID text,</blockquote>