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Birds of Southeast Asia: 37 (Princeton Field Guides)
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This concise, updated edition of the award-winning A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia (Princeton, 2000) is the most comprehensive, compact guide to this magnificent bird-rich region. It is a complete field and reference guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It also covers a wide range of species found in the Indian subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, and the Philippines.
- More than 140 full-color plates
- All 1,270 species covered in detail
- Up-to-date text covers the identification, voice, habitat, behavior, and range of all the region’s species and distinctive subspecies
- Complete coverage of some fifteen Southeast Asian countries and regions
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Additional information
| Publisher | Illustrated edition (2 Sept. 2005), Princeton University Press |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 304 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0691124353 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0691124353 |
| Dimensions | 15.8 x 2.24 x 21.34 cm |
by C L Scott
very good
by Ms F
This is a really good field guide in the absence of individual country guides. Because it covers a huge area its a heavy guide It is comprehensive which compensates but its a field guide and should be as light as possible. I think if the weight could be reduced it would be better because if you have this book you probably have several others as I did, all needing lugging around in my rucksack. I would rather it was a bit flimsier but lighter. Enough of that, its a good guide and worth lugging. Sadly, I used it for my trip to Laos where its very difficult to see birds at all so it didn’t get as much use as I’d like but for those I saw it was invaluable. I will definitely take it on future trips to SE Asia.
by Dirk Van Gansberghe
Between February and April 2006 I tested my copy in the field while birding in Laos: It is an excellent field guide! It is very practical: plastic cover, compact and light enough for field use, texts and illustrations facing each other, good descriptions of species, relevant sub-species, voices, habitats and ranges. In addition the illustrations by 14 different artists are generally good to very good. I recorded about 160 species in two months and was able to easily identify several species new to me thanks to the good quality of the illustrations and the text.
One day while birding around Vientiane my Robson’s field guide fell into the mud by accident. It was instantly covered with mud but thanks to its plastic cover, I could easily clean it and continue to use it as before. Most field guides don’t automatically come with a plastic cover and would be permanently damaged in similar circumstances.
I have used some other top quality field guides in other regions of the world: Collins Bird Guide by Mullarney, Svensson, Zetterström and Grant (1999) in Europe, Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (2003) in USA, Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Stevenson and Fanshawe (2002) in Kenya and Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent by Grimmet, Inskipp and Inskipp (2001) in Nepal, among others. By comparison I find this new version of Birds of South-east Asia excellent! Describing 1270 species with so much text and so many good illustrations in such a compact field guide is a major achievement! However, some may complain that it uses the Sibley & Monroe taxonomic order and that species distributions are described only in the text without distribution maps. But the lack of maps – that would be inaccurate anyway – obviously enabled to insert more useful information for each species.
Overall, it is an excellent, up-to-date and handy field guide for birding in South-east Asia (it is even smaller than Birds of Thailand by the same author!). A real top quality field guide for the region covering Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Congratulations to the author and the illustrators! Good value for money but be aware of the possible confusion between the 3 successive versions of this book. The first and more comprehensive version of this guide – excellent reference but bigger and less practical in the field – was already called “A Field Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia” (Craig Robson, 2000). For this new smaller and handier version just ensure that you buy the 304-page version “Birds of South-east Asia” published in 2005 and not the 504-page version published in 2000 (hardcover) or in 2002 (softcover).
by G M PLATT
Clear,concise,good pictures of birds, it does the job in Hong Kong hope