I also had no access all of yesterday. At this moment, I do have access, but not to the "new releases" and the "coming soon" pages!
Interesting, but I wonder whether there is really a need for another Gull book. I feel the authors also don't think that they'll sell all that many. Otherwise, the only redemption for providing photos (that are being used) coming in the form of one free copy of the book would seem rather pitiful.
this book will be head and shoulders above all others, you only have to look at the reputation of the main authors. Yes other gull guys are good, but
seeing who the authors are this will undoubtedly be the best book on gulls for some years to come.
I can't find any details of the book online let alone who the main authors are so can you send a link or tells us who they are? The post and the link provided only refers to "Smiths" & "adriaens" (presumably Dutch author Peter Adriaens). I think the key to the success of the book will rest even more on the skill of the authors to explain identification details as clearly and as concisely as possible without getting too bogged down in detail than their merits as observers; reading Olsson & Larsson is a bit like chewing cardboard!
I remember reading some of Killiam Mullarney's articles in Birding World and I could hardly ever, see any of the details he talked about and yes, who are these authors, I can't see names anywhere either??
Hi John,
as Killian is one of the best communicators in bird id i suspect that the problem might lie elsewhere....
I'll take that as a compliment from someone who enjoys hanging around rubbish dumps and sewage outfalls
sorry Andy i had missed this reply from you, unfortunately i didn't miss the vulgar reply you sent that the mods thankfully deleted.
Totally agreeI disagree a bit - gull identification often isn't possible without really going into small details. The recent gull book (photographic guide of Gulls of the World by Olsen) has tried to be as concise as possible (on average ~4 pages of text and ~4-6 pages of photos per species) but I think it just doesn't work that good as it in one way oversimplifies things - that can lead to overconfidence in identifying difficult plumages in situations when maybe the ID is not reliably possible?
So to me it is the opposite - I would love to see that future Gull book to be like a spiritual successor to the Olsen & Larsson 'Gull bible'- a book that gathers all current knowledge on WP gulls as detailed as it possible in a book format. Of course it will depend very much on the layout and structure of the book how user friendly it will be. I agree that the Olsen & Larsson book has some flaws in that regard and that makes it very overwhelming at first and not very exciting read - I think I needed some 3-5 years of having it on my bookshelf until I could finally start to enjoy reading it
Not in the near future. Shirihai seems to have no time to publish his book projects.
