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A Field Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia (Paperback)

by Craig Robson (Author, Preface)
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 504 pages
  • Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (14 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843301180
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843301189
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 739,780 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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South-east Asia continues to attract increasing numbers of birdwatchers on a regular basis to see the vast diverstiy of bird life to be found there. Covering Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, West Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, this guide covers in detail the identification, voice, breeding status, habitat and distribution of all the species and distinctive subspecies of the region.

About the Author
Craig Robson has travelled regularly to South-east Asia for the last 20 years, having seen and studied more bird species of that region than anyone else in Europe. He helped launch the thriving Oriental Bird Club and served on the Council of the OBC for 5 years, writing numerous papers in their journal during that time. Craig is based in Norfolk, England. A selection of leading artists, all of them specialists in their fields, have been specially commissioned to provide the full-colour identification plates. The artists include Richard Allen, Hilary Burn, Clive Byers, Daniel Cole, John Cox, Antony Disley, Martin Elliott, Mike Langman, Ian Lewington, Andrew Mackay, Stephen Message, Chris Schmidt, Jan Wilczur and Tim Worfolk.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful plates, great text but difficult in the field., 16 Sep 2000
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This review is from: A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia (Hardcover)
Robson has taken on the monumentous task first tackled by Ben King thirty years ago; to produce a guide to all the birds of South- East Asia, and he's as good as pulled it off! I used this book on the standard Thai circuit during 4 weeks of early 1999. First of all I would say that the book fails to live up to it's title "A Field Guide......" It should have been designed with use in the field as its prime concern, disappointingly this aspect was not that successful. I left my Rounds Guide to the Birds of Thailand in someones car at Heathrow and that was a mistake. Secondly the lack of distribution maps at all, let alone next to the plates, made the successful identification of unfamiliar birds a slow process, it was my first time to South-East Asia so there were plenty of them! I found having to read distribution notes first very slow and frustrating. Thirdly Robson chose to follow Sibley and Monroe's taxonomy, the rights and wrongs of which are not for this review, however again this slowed down my task of identifing a bird quickly in the field and no one else on our trip was totally familiar with this classification. So why 4 stars? The plates are on the whole superb, particularly Christopher Schmidt's glorious Thrushes,Redstarts and Flycatchers, Stephen Message's Babblers and Scimitar and Wren Babblers and Clive Byers's brilliant Pittas and Laughingthrushes, just look at Spotted and Blue-winged. Hilary Burn's Owls are exquisite. Perhaps as skilfully completed is the scholarly text. Robson is a giant of the South-East Asian birding scene and it shows. The small text in the species accounts is a mine of information, 100% up-to-date and unbelievably detailed making identification of those female Ficedula's an eventual formality. This alone is enough to make it excellent value for money. Dispite my preceding criticism I would say that this book is indispensable on a field trip but is best left in the car, hotel room or tent. It would also come into it's own in the other less visited or well described areas in the region that this book covers where no smaller quicker to use guide exists.If you're going to these facinating lands of almost mythical birds no other guide comes close - buy it.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Top guide for SE Asian birds, 23 May 2002
By N U Corbet (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This is a very comprehensive fieldguide covering 1251 species with 104 excellent colour plates plus text for each species. Area covered is Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Highly recommended. Only downside is its a little heavy for a field guide (I have the hardback edition) - this new softback is probably lighter, and is definitely cheaper. A big improvement on the older Collins guide.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Shortcoming and strengths, 8 Jun 2009
By C. Walford (uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia (Hardcover)
An attractive looking book but is suited more as a reference book than a field guide due to it's weight. I'm afraid the lack of maps is a major omission - whether I'm in S.America, India or SE Asia one of the standard ways of eliminating birds for ID purpses is by checking its range on a map. I also prefer the Collins layout of placing relevant information opposite illustrations, rather than having to checking a plates number and referring to data in the second half of the book -its just easier to use. I've bought it to take to Vietnam and Cambodia and scanning through the sections describing bird's ranges have only found one reference to Vietnam so far. I'm sure it must be described in a different way - but it isn't obvious.

Its strengths lie in the area it covers and the number of birds it describes. If you are travelling through the whole area this guide covers and had to take a separate guide for each country, this guide would seem light and easy to use.

So is it worth getting? Well it might sound like I'm suggesting it isn't but it's the most up to date guide of the area and I haven't yet found a guide that can beat it. I'm sure that in the future as more interest is taken in the area guides will emerge for individual countries with the information in a more accessible form. However for the time being it is the best guide I've come across for the area so I'm happy to have it.

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