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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Birding in Germany
Keywords: birdguide, Germany
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Date: 9 Oct 90 01:43:58 GMT
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In article <tjo.655421795@edsel> tjo@edsel.siemens.edu (Tom Ostrand) writes:
>Are there any German birders reading rec.birds?  I'd like to
>know about field guides for Germany or central Europe,
>especially ones written in German.  One of my goals is to
>find out what the German names are for common species that
>exist in the USA also.  

The Peterson, Mountfort, & Hollom, "Field Guide to the Birds of Britain
and Europe" gives the German names, as well as the French, Dutch, Swedish, 
and (where relevant) American names for all the birds.  So that is a handy 
source, although I would have found Spanish useful in Spain this year, and 
almost all Swedish and Dutch birders are fairly fluent in English.

David Mark
dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu