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Sequence of Orders and Families

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Subject: Sequence of Orders and Families
From: Steve <>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:24:25 +1100
G'day all

My two bob's worth:

Field guides should incorporate the latest available taxonomy.

This helps birders to gain a better understanding of a whole range of bird biology - often without their realising it.

If there are similar but unrelated species then there is no reason why an extra species can't be added to a plate out of sequence and some discussion be included in the text.

Otherwise, keep to the current accepted taxonomy. Books which use weird ordering are rarely successful and they make comparisons with field guides from other countries more problematic.

Cheers

Steve Clark
Hamilton, Vic

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