How many field guides are needed to cover all thespecies in the world?

[peter crow <>]

I cannot add anything intelligent ot the number of field guides  
question.
A few years ago I started collecting Field Guides both Australian and  
overseas.
I usually buy only at the Brisbane Lifeline Book Fest (Nest one  
towards the end of January) I have about ten and the most I've paid   
for one is $7. The most interesting and dearest is a Leach revised by  
Crosby Morrison, An Australian Bird book. Its quite recent. Published  
in 1959 and reprinted in 1968.
Peter




On 08/12/2009, at 8:15 AM,  wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:43:38 +1100
> From: "Greg Little" <>
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] How many field guides are needed to cover
>         all     thespecies in the world?
> To: "'L&L Knight'" <>,      "'Birding Aus'"
>         <>
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> Laurie
>
> I started, a few years ago, collecting field guides, usually  
> inexpensive
> second hand books as I come across them but also some new books.  
> Wished
> I had started years ago. Some of these books have interesting
> geographical information but are often just nice pictures and some
> information of the birds of a country. I prefer the painted images
> rather than photo guides. I figure I am unlikely to ever get to every
> country in the world but could easily collect enough field guides to
> cover all the birds of the world. While there are lots of expensive
> books from the 1800's and earlier bird field guides are a genre that
> started only early in the 1900's. Some guides cover a region such as
> Britain, Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa but it
> would be nice to get a guide for each country. So the answer to your
> question, I don't know, but it should not take that many books or too
> much money to collect enough to cover the world. However another way  
> to
> get good information on all the birds at a reasonable price is to buy
> the Handbook of the Birds of the World as they are produced.  
> Apparently
> there are quite a few people who collect field guides. It would be
> interesting to form a group to notify when a guide is seen in a shop
> somewhere. For example. A second hand bookshop on the main street in
> Hamilton, near Newcastle, NSW, has a heap of good but expensive bird
> books, not just field guides.
>
> Greg Little
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