- Paperback: 123 pages
- Publisher: Sabah Society with World Wildlife Fund, Malaysia (31 Dec 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 9679994708
- ISBN-13: 978-9679994704
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.4 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 569,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a condensed version of Bertram E. Smythies Birds of Borneo which at present is the only comprehensive guide to Bornean birds. This pocketbook guide, a great help in the field, contains the original plates painted by Commander A.M. Hughes using new transparencies and colour separations giving a more faithful representation of the originals. Most of the information is from the third edition of The Birds of Borneowith some additional material drawn from other published sources. Bird observers and enthusiasts will find this book extremely useful.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
a comprehensive yet small and light book, with colour plate of almost all known borneon birds
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Field sized guide of decent plates with little or no text
12 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
Basics: 1984, softcover, 123 pages, 440 species in 50 plates, 144 more species described, no range maps, minimal text
Fitting with its name, this small book could fit into your back pocket at 7 x 4.5 inches. The book mimics what many birders have done to large illustrated field guides, which is to cut out the plates and bind them into a plate-only guide. That's what is presented here.
The 46 color and 4 black-and-white plates have been taken directly from the larger book, Birds of Borneo, 3rd edition, 1981 by Smythies. The only difference in the plates is they've been shrunk down to approximately 60% the original size. The plates illustrate 440 species and, interspersed throughout the pages, are 144 more non-illustrated birds that are accompanied by a very brief description.
Each bird is typically shown with just one illustration of good quality and color. Just over half of the birds are given text other than just their common and scientific names. If given, the description is a single line of key identification points. This means that if the illustrations -- of just one plumage -- do not confirm you identification, you will receive little more help from the description, if it's even given.
This small guide will be helpful, but a more recent book on this area will offer more species and more text. To date, there is only one complete field guide to Borneo (MacKinnon/Phillipps 1993). The Birds of Borneo, 4th edition by Smythies, 1999, is still the most complete book, despite its large non-field guide size.
I've listed several related books below...
1) The Birds of Borneo, 4th edition by Smythies
2) A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali: The Greater Sunda Islands by MacKinnon/Phillipps
3) A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea: Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia by Coates
4) Photographic Guide to the Birds of Borneo by Davison
5) A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia by Strange
Fitting with its name, this small book could fit into your back pocket at 7 x 4.5 inches. The book mimics what many birders have done to large illustrated field guides, which is to cut out the plates and bind them into a plate-only guide. That's what is presented here.
The 46 color and 4 black-and-white plates have been taken directly from the larger book, Birds of Borneo, 3rd edition, 1981 by Smythies. The only difference in the plates is they've been shrunk down to approximately 60% the original size. The plates illustrate 440 species and, interspersed throughout the pages, are 144 more non-illustrated birds that are accompanied by a very brief description.
Each bird is typically shown with just one illustration of good quality and color. Just over half of the birds are given text other than just their common and scientific names. If given, the description is a single line of key identification points. This means that if the illustrations -- of just one plumage -- do not confirm you identification, you will receive little more help from the description, if it's even given.
This small guide will be helpful, but a more recent book on this area will offer more species and more text. To date, there is only one complete field guide to Borneo (MacKinnon/Phillipps 1993). The Birds of Borneo, 4th edition by Smythies, 1999, is still the most complete book, despite its large non-field guide size.
I've listed several related books below...
1) The Birds of Borneo, 4th edition by Smythies
2) A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali: The Greater Sunda Islands by MacKinnon/Phillipps
3) A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea: Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia by Coates
4) Photographic Guide to the Birds of Borneo by Davison
5) A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia by Strange
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