Just read through all 10 pages (so far) of this thread and not found any mention of a couple of glaring errors, and I use the term glaring quite deliberately here, that I've seen in the copy I bought today. There are several plates where the print quality is all wrong with some particular colour being way too bright. Several people have mentioned the new american warblers plate but is it just my copy where the greens are all day-glo? And then there's the oh so BLUE!! tit page where even the maps are too blue, or is that just the dazzle from the azure tit (ahhh! my eyes, my eyes) :eek!:
I see that Owen did pick up on the Bonellis warblers and I think that's another plate to have suffered in the same way. I'm sure the artists didn't paint them using these colours.
As with most of the problems mentioned in previous posts, it seems there's been a lack of professionalism on the part of the publishers/printers. It's not like someone just knocked this together on a Friday afternoon after a good lunch, is it? They only needed to hand a copy to each of the authors to look at for a couple of days and say, "There you go lads, are you happy with that?" and most of these issues could have been eliminated before the main print run.
Before anyone starts wailing that I'm being too negative about it, I've got no complaints with the work put in by the artists and authors and yes, the 1st ed was the best field guide I've seen and the 2nd ed has some nice additions.... I'm just a bit frustrated that someone at Collins couldn't have taken a bit more pride in their work. Like getting a new car with a scratched bonnet, it's still going to drive ok, but :C
