No idea about Uzbekistan. What would you expect these shorter guides to
contain? Same as the current guides, but less birds? I would imagine
you could safely remove quite a few, but there are lots of uncommon
birds that you might run into and be led to believe are something else
because they're missing from the guide. Perhaps it would be better to
include most birds but have smaller pictures and less text.
The index pictures at the start of each section of Morcombe might do the
trick, although they aren't all included. That would get the whole
thing down to a few pages.
I'm sure I've seen some sort of fold out card in the shops with just a
selection of Australian birds on it, but can't remember what it's
called.
Better still might be to somehow get the whole lot onto a phone or pda.
I think Morcombe would be the most suitable for a project like that, as
the pictures and text are all together.
Peter Shute
wrote on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 9:19
AM:
> 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?
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