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RFI: Australian Field Guides

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Subject: RFI: Australian Field Guides
From: knightl <>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 17:10:50 +1000
Pizzey and Knight's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia is one of the better guides. It has better drawings and more info than Simpson and Day.

However like most guides, it has the common failing of vaguely following taxonomic order, rather than logically presenting species in birdwatching order - so the button quail are nowhere near the true quail; the terns, gulls and skuas are 100 pages from the rest of the pelagic birds, the sitellas are nowhere near the treecreepers, robins are not with whistlers etc.

Regards, Laurie.



On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 04:30 AM, wrote:

Dear Birders

Greetings from Cape Town. I was wondering whether anyone could comment about Australian
and New Zealand:
1) bird field guides;
2) bird-finding guides.
Congratulations in advance for winning the cricket, guys.
Chris Lotz, Cape Town, South Africa
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Dr. Chris Lotz and Catherine Gray
BIRDING ECOTOURS
http://www.birdingecotours.co.za

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