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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