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Shorter Field Guides?

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Subject: Shorter Field Guides?
From: "John Leonard" <>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:19:11 +1000
This is a posting consequent on my earlier RFI re a field guide to Uzbekistan

A friend of ours is going to Uzbekistan and she is a semi-birder. In
other words she carries binoculars, she visits national parks, tourist
places in natural areas &c and tries to identify the birds she sees.
However, she doesn't go to specific places to see birds, and she
doesn't try to see large number of species, or tick all or most of the
spp in a country or area.

As an experienced traveller she is concerned to cut down on the weight
of the stuff she carries, and she has several times expressed a desire
to have a shorter field guide to birds, showing only the most common
and most visible spp.

I myself doubt that such a guide would sell (difficult to market), and
I know most birders would probably look down their noses at a guide
that didn't have all the spp in it. However I was thinking that one
idea would be to have such a shorter guide as an adjunct to the full
guide. You would buy, say, Pizzey and Knight, and tucked into a pocket
in the back cover would be the said shorter guide, which semi-birders
could take out and carry round with them.

Any thoughts on this?

-- 
John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net
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