Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!stat!sun13!sandee From: sandee@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Birding in Southwest England and Ireland Message-ID: <304@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> Date: 25 Jul 90 12:45:50 GMT References: <36067@vrdxhq.verdix.com> Organization: SCRI, Florida State University Lines: 34 In article misan@ra.abo.fi (Annika Forsten DC) writes: >In article <36067@vrdxhq.verdix.com> edm@vrdxhq.verdix.com (Ed Matthews) writes: >> I'm going to be spending two weeks in England and Ireland in September. >> Would really like some suggestions about where to go. > .. and Annika suggests : >The best site guide is 'Birdwatching in Britain' by Redman and Harrap. > .... >I don't know whether there is any site guide on Ireland, but there is a >book called 'Birds in Ireland' by Clive Hutchinson about the birds. 19 pounds. > .... >'The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain' and Ireland by Ferguson-Lees, >Willis and Sharrock 9.95 pounds. > .... >'Hamlyn Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe' by Bruun, Delin and Svensson >latest revised edition. 5.95 pounds. > .... >'The MacMillan Guide to Bird Identification' by Harris, Tucker and Vinicombe. >This is the European equivalent of Advanced Birding by Kenn Kaufmann. I'll leave the expertise of which guide is best to Annika, but I can provide some information on where to get them. ABA (1-800-634-7736, 7 days a week, 8 to 8 Mountain time) is weak on foreign field guides, but they DO have the Shell guide ($15.95) Los Angeles Audubon Society (1-213-876-0202, Tue thru Sat, 10-3 Pac time), lists 'Birdwatching in Britain, a site by site guide', Redman, Harrap $24.95 'Birds of Britain and Europe', Bruun et al. $14.95 'Watching birds in Ireland', Hutchinson $ 9.95 (19 pounds = $ 9.95 ???) Daan Sandee sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 (904) 644-7045