Happy New Year to all cog-l subscribers!
I received a copy of the compact Morecombe
Field Guide for Christmas and I am very impressed with sheer volume of
information contained in what is a pocket sized guide. As a birder who
previously carried Slater in the field (because of its size), I always felt the
need to have a second field guide handy because of the limited information and
poor distribution maps in the Slater guide. I also felt gypped when the
supposed ‘revised & updated’ edition of Slater was released in
2003 and found that basic things had not been updated such as gerygones still
bearing the name warblers.
I particularly like the ease of finding
family groups and the pictures of all related illustrated table. I think that
Michael’s drawings are particularly suited to the smaller format.
The compact Morecombe has certainly become
my ‘field’ guide of choice.
Cheers
Alastair
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Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2005
1:20 PM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] compact
field guide
Has anyone else noticed that the Michael Morecombe
field guide has now been published in a compact version? I only saw this
for the first time today, whilst visiting the bookstore. Seems like an
improvement, as I find the normal format is too large to carry, with ease, in
the field. Does anyone know if Pizzey & Knight and/or Simpson &
Day plan to follow suit? A complete field guide for a palm pilot/pocket
PC would be even better.
p.s.
the compact Morecombe was retailing for $35.
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