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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 1229686" data-attributes="member: 2844">Thanks for the info and expressing sentiments close to my own albeit rather more eloquently.  The faults of the book are clear, but let's not lose sight of the fact that there are very, very few birders out there who could have put this series of papers together.  Also, having now completed reading the book, I find there's rather more 'new' stuff in it than some seem to suppose.  It's undeniable that having all this ID info together in one book is vastly more convenient than dotted round a variety of magazines most of which are no longer available.  So I'm more than happy to join Ingsbirder in warmly congratulating Martin Garner (and his friends) for their efforts.  I earnestly hope that 'quality control' will be better next time,John</blockquote>