Lloyd,
You raise a good point about including accidentals in field guides. It
is a real bugbear of mine. Why waste space in a field guide with
illustrations and descriptions of species which have turned up in a
country once or twice, some times 100 years or more ago. There is no
useful place in a field guide for such species. To me they are just
padding. If the publisher/author want to include them, put them in a
separate section. I have no problem with accidentals being included in
tomes such as HANZAB, as they are valuable reference tools, which I
don't think many of us carry in the field.
Cheers
Carl Clifford
On 14/01/2011, at 6:48 AM, Lloyd Nielsen wrote:
Finally, to David’s comment about Australian Field guides i.e. “If you
don’t like field guides illustrating vagrant birds…. just don’t read
them”. Field guides are not there to be “read” but are tools for the
identification of our birds - which can be rather difficult and
frustrating, especially for people who are new or casual to birding
when the guide is overloaded with birds from other regions.
Lloyd Nielsen
Mt Molloy, Nth Qld
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