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From: dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca (David Graham)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Some new European field guides: reactions?
Message-ID: <129704@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 90 07:18:47 GMT
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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The last thing I want to do is start another argument about the merits 
of different field guides, but I'd be grateful for reactions to any or 
all of the following (titles taken from the latest catalogue of the 
Birds & Natural History Book Society):

Birds by Character: The Fieldguide to Jizz Identification. Rob Hume, 
ill. by Ian Wallace, Darren Rees, John Busby, Peter Partington. 
Macmillan, 12.75 pounds.  Bills itself as "The most important new 
fieldguide for decades" (!). Sounds useful if well done.

Kingfisher Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe. John 
Gooders, ill. by Alan Harris. Kingfisher, 10.95 pounds.  Blurb says 
this is "the definitive guide to British and European birds, covering 
427 species". Also that the illustrations are "superbly detailed and 
accurate".

Kingfisher Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. Same 
authors as above, 7.45 pounds.

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   David Graham					dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca  
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