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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StevePreddy" data-source="post: 1721336" data-attributes="member: 37455">The full Errata List Document is contained in Post #255The second edition of the Collins Bird Guide has been available for a while now, and a number of problems have been identified with it (many of these have been reported on here). As there appears to be no official route for reporting errors mentioned in the book, I thought it would be useful to set up this thread as an unofficial means of doing that. To start things off, I've collected together all the errors I'm aware of in a single errata list, which I'll shortly post in this thread. I've tried to distinguish "criticism" (e.g. I don't like the way they've painted my favourite bird) from "errors" (e.g. typos, chopped-off curlew bills and so on). I've included the latter but not the former, although if a particular criticism has been noted independently by many people, with no dissenters, I've regarded it as an honorary error and included it.Hopefully I've picked up all of the errors that posters to Birdforum have noted, but if not, please post further corrections in this thread, and I (or anyone) can produce an updated version of this errata list in due course.And just in case anyone is in any doubt, despite the glitches, I regard the Collins Bird Guide as a superb piece of work - if I didn't, I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of collating this list!</blockquote>