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Re Top 100 Avian species

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Subject: Re Top 100 Avian species
From: Jim Smart <>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:03:02 +0100
Hello Syd Curtis and Birding-Aus people,

On September 10 Syd Curtis asked which Australian species made it on to the list of 100 Birds to see before you die. This is the title of a recently published book (ISBN 978-1-84442-019-3) by two British birders, Davis Chandler and Dominic Couzens. Yesterday I checked out this book in my local Waterstones in Southampton. It is an interesting book, not one that I would buy for myself but one that I would be glad to be given as a present. The list is, of course, very subjective and personal. The birds on the list range from the very easy to see, e.g. Superb Fairy-wren, to the very difficult e.g. Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It has good,although not spectacular, photographs of each species plus a page of commentary plus a distribution map.

The Australian species on the list are:

Arctic Tern
Superb Fairy-wren
Crimson Chat
Southern Cassowary
Supurb Lyrebird
Wandering Albatross
Regent Honeyeater
Gouldian Finch

This list may not be complete - after reading and writing notes for some minutes the store staff were giving me suspicious looks.

The same book title, with the same authors, has a different ISBN, different publisher and a cheaper price in Australia. See:http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/18/pid/5994.htm

Cheers,

Jim Smart
Presently: Bitterne Village, Southampton UK
Normally: East Maitland NSW



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