Morton Strange's shop "Natures Niche", in the Singapore Botanic  
Gardens is worth a browse. Their  book section of their website is at: http://www.naturesniche.com/en/naturesbooks/books/birds/birds_asiaguides1/1/
 Also, the Nature Society of Singapore has just published "The Avifauna  
of Singapore", which looks to be a very useful book. You cna check it  
out at http://www.nss.org.sg/   There is a link on the NSS site to  
their Bird Group site, which is worth a look through for what has  
popped up lately in S'pore and for info of birding sites there.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 20/06/2009, at 12:28 PM, Chris Coleborn wrote:
David,
While I agree with Paul that Craig Robson's book, "New Holland Field
 Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia", is a great book, because it  
does not
give distribution maps & has the distribution and other details only  
in the
back, it can be difficult to use & sort out some species. While not in  
the
same class, Morten Strange's book, 'A Photographic Guide to the Birds of
South-East Asia' is a quick way to identify most species to be found in
Singapore. Also it is much cheaper than Robson's book and fairly easy to
obtain - especially in Singapore. I hope that Robson will soon produce a
 book for Malaysia/Singapore etc that is like his outstanding book,  
'Birds of
Thailand'. In it he has distribution maps, aids & notes like most world
Field Guides now have.
All the best,
Chris Coleborn
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