I was planning on posting a list of errors to Birding-Aus.
How long should I give you all to send your errors in? One month?
I'll make it the end of October. That should be plenty of time to get around
to buying a copy (for those that haven't got it) and have a good look
through it.
Anthony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Jolly [SMTP:
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 2:53 PM
> To: Birding Aus; Anthony Overs
> Subject: RE: [BIRDING-AUS] Morcombe field guide (again)
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> Good idea Anthony!
>
> May I suggest that it would be particularly useful also to post a summary
> of
> clear-cut errors for the benefit of birding-aussers who already have the
> guide and haven't necessarily found each and every mistake, or maybe don't
> have the experience to recognize them all. That certainly includes me.
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> I think it would be a particularly appropriate use of this forum to share
> observations about published errors in other field guides too - Australian
> and overseas, but particularly Australian - not necessarily as criticisms,
> but for the benefit of mutual clarification.
>
> Add the mislabeling of the Painted Snipe female as a male on page 107 of
> Morecombe.
>
> I should say that on balance, I'm a fan of Michael Morecombe's book; I
> very
> much like the layout. The way I see it, a field guide is as much as
> anything
> a handy reference to other peoples' experience in the field - and you
> can't
> have too much of that. Yes, some of the plates in this first edition are a
> bit off, and that can be said selectively for the other field guides too
> to
> a greater or lesser extent.
>
> Bill Jolly
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> Behalf Of Anthony Overs
> Sent: Monday, 11 September 2000 11:29 AM
> To: 'birding-aus'
> Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Morcombe field guide (again)
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is anybody collecting information on errors in the new field guide??
>
> I've found a couple of goodies so far:
>
> Swift Parrot, listed as common. Should be listed as uncommon at the least,
> given that it's endangered, with 2000(ish) birds left.
> Powerful Owl, territory up to 1000 square km. That'd be 100,000 hectares,
> just a tad more than the 1000-1200 ha in most of the literature.
>
> There are also problems with several of the distribution maps.
>
> If there is no particular person already collecting this stuff then I
> would
> be happy to do so and forward it to the publishers. Email me at
>
>
> Cheers
> Anthony
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