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Birds of South-East Asia (Field guide to) (Paperback)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd; Concise Ed. edition (1 Sep 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1843307464
ISBN-13: 978-1843307464
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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This concise edition of the award-winning field guide is both portable and compact, making the book accessible and key species easier to locate. With 142 colour plates, author Craig Robson details the plumage v ariations of over 1250 bird species found in South-east Asia and Thailand.

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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5.0 out of 5 stars A compact and top quality field guide for SE Asia! , 23 May 2006

By	Dirk Van Gansberghe - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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 such 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, Zetterstr�m 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).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great achievement in a small package, 28 Dec 2007

By	R. L. Simpson (Durham) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I wanted one field guide that would cover Thailand and Cambodia, and this is the only choice. The plates are just big enough for clarity and to show differential details between species; the information on distribution by area and season was again enough to work from - and better than using more space for maps that would have been far too generalised. To get this much into so small a book and make it so useful is a job well done. Recommended.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good compact guide, pleased with purchase, 11 Feb 2009

By	L. Bedlow - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Once you get used to the abbreviated terminology this book is an excellent companion for trips to SE Asia. A summary of general bird migrations (just 2 or 3 pages long) would have improved it further. I'm very happy with my purchase and would recommend it to others.

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