Yeah, well, Bob Beale's complaint can be used for all the field guides
for any country or region. I believe that it is a plot cooked up by
field guide authors and publishers, to never publish a completely
accurate and easy to use guide. This results in the poor birder having
to buy and cart around multiple guides or even handbooks, with
resulting back problems and excess baggage charges. I have seen
birders in Borneo lugging around Bertram Smythies' "Birds of Borneo"
and even Wells'"Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula". I think "Handbook
of the Birds of the World" would be too much of a challenge for even
the most fastidious birder. Unless they travelled by ship.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 08/06/2009, at 3:00 PM, Scot Mcphee wrote:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/what-a-hoot-bird-books-not-within-cooee-20090607-bzt1.html
This Bob Beale doesn't appear to post on this list though.
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