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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1395059" data-attributes="member: 2844">Having already appeared with birds featured in the conventional and familiar order, I can't see the publishers completely rejigging the new edition to accomodate the Sibley & Monroe sequence.  (Incidentally the pros and cons of this are currently being debated in the thread on Mark Brazil's new field guide on the eastern palearctic)."New species" deserving fuller treatment clearly fall in two categories - newly recognised splits (like all those damn gulls) and new or increasing vagrants.  I'd agree that Lesser Scaup ought to be 'promoted' but in fairness to the authors back in 1999 (and more to the point during the long gestation of the guide) it wasn't nearly so frequent as now.  My other wish is a full treatment of Ruppell's Vulture which, I'd suggest, is now one of the most regularly reported of the formerly extreme vagrants (albeit solely from Iberia).  I'd also give a lower priority to American vagrants since they are well treated in several easily available guides.   I see it's now being promised for June ..... so maybe it'll be (re)launched at the UK Bird fair in August!</blockquote>