New Birdwatching guide for South-East Brazil (1 Viewer)

[kabsetz]

New Birdwatching guide for South-East Brazil

This is just to inform people that there is a new guide out that offers birding site descriptions for 50 sites throughout South-East Brazil, travel instructions, photo-illustrated species descriptions for the 471 species recorded in the Agulhas Negras area, as well as a checklist for all the bird species of S-E Brazil. The book is written by Finnish ornithologists Juha Honkala and Seppo Niiranen, and was published in 18th of June. Net sale price 33 € / 29 £. NHBS (http://www.nhbs.com/title.php?bkfno=186238&ad_id=562) sells the book worldwide. In Germany you can order the book from Christ Media Natur. American customers are taken care by Buteo Books! (http://www.buteobooks.com/merchant.m...Category_Code=) In Finland you can order the book directly from http://www.portaldobosque.org/Shop.htm or alternatively visit Lintuvaruste.

A very nice book, definitely worth it for those planning to travel Rio, Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo or Minas Gerais. If interested, you can check the sample pages posted on Portal do Bosque's site.

Kimmo

 

[kabsetz]

Just curious if anyone has used the book yet and what they may think about it.

Kimmo

New Birdwatching guide for South-East Brazil

This is just to inform people that there is a new guide out that offers birding site descriptions for 50 sites throughout South-East Brazil, travel instructions, photo-illustrated species descriptions for the 471 species recorded in the Agulhas Negras area, as well as a checklist for all the bird species of S-E Brazil. The book is written by Finnish ornithologists Juha Honkala and Seppo Niiranen, and was published in 18th of June. Net sale price 33 € / 29 £. NHBS (http://www.nhbs.com/title.php?bkfno=186238&ad_id=562) sells the book worldwide. In Germany you can order the book from Christ Media Natur. American customers are taken care by Buteo Books! (http://www.buteobooks.com/merchant.m...Category_Code=) In Finland you can order the book directly from http://www.portaldobosque.org/Shop.htm or alternatively visit Lintuvaruste.

A very nice book, definitely worth it for those planning to travel Rio, Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo or Minas Gerais. If interested, you can check the sample pages posted on Portal do Bosque's site.

Kimmo

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Just curious if anyone has used the book yet and what they may think about it.

Kimmo

I have a copy, although I've not used it in the field yet. It's quite a nicely laid out book. The site guides and maps seem fairly clear. The selection of sites isn't particularly comprehensive. For example the areas I know best in southeast Brazil are REGUA and the Tres Picos Mountains and these aren't covered at all despite being excellent and very easily accessed. The photographic guide is potentially useful, although has all the limitations that these sorts of guides usually have. I wonder if a better option would have been a more comprehensive site guide but to leave out the photographic field guide. I'll certainly use it next time I'm in the area though.

 

[fbeeldens]

Hello there Kimmo,

We used it fairly intensively during our trip last October. I'm going from memory here, so that may color my info below.

The parts surrounding Itatiaia are quite detailed, and it appears that the writers are very familiar with the area, so that 's a plus. (but check out the description of the tres picos trail as that's in particularly poor repair and has been so for quite a while. I'm not sure anymore this was highlighted in the book).

The info for some of the other areas was quite sketchy (and at times frustratingly so - this is not simply a criticism of mine. We met several other travelling birders and they had the same experience with the directions for sites they visited) and we ended up, especially for directions being better off with the trip reports we had brought along.

I also agree with Andrew that some of the best(?) spots in the south east, close to Rio (especially REGUA, which I was very impressed with, but also Pico de Caledonia, Serra dos tucanos and Macae De Cima) simply aren't covered.

Some of the info is already out of date, for places to stay this isn't too much of a surprise as that's often very fluid, but that some of the covered sites simply can't be accessed anymore (and haven't been accessible for a while: e.g. Augusto Ruschi) is more unfortunate.