Update to Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification (2 Viewers)

[Keith Dickinson]

Agreed it is a better review Archie, but I'm still getting the book.
I think that with the speed of the internet/DNA research/general birding skills always improving, it is going to be a case that a book, which relies on the skills of a good artist to produce the plates, will always be playing catch up.

 

[njlarsen]

That review really describes to me why they should not as the next thing publish a revision of the second book but an entirely new volume (even if as a two volume thing) that combines the things missing both in a westerly and in a south and easterly direction relative to what is in this one.

Unrealistic??? probably yes, but how else can I make known my opinion about what could have been a much better publication?

Niels

 

[Archie Archer]

Agreed it is a better review Archie, but I'm still getting the book.
I think that with the speed of the internet/DNA research/general birding skills always improving, it is going to be a case that a book, which relies on the skills of a good artist to produce the plates, will always be playing catch up.

I tend to agree with you but some of these splits & new species are pretty old news. For the price of half a tank of petrol it is definitely worth getting Keith.