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    Best bird guides by region...Asia

    Yes of course it is. Using an SE Asian guide means you would have to leaf through lots of pages of species not found in Singapore.
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    Roberts - Birds of the Kruger National Park (updated)

    Unfortunately it tends to take quite a while for South African titles to become available outside of the country, no doubt due to the absurd shipping rates from SA. Listed here as available at the end of June Roberts Bird Guide Greater Kruger National Park.
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    HANDBOOK of the BIRDS of the WORLD question

    Ornithology Book Classifieds group on Facebook is probably worth a shot. Two complete 16-volume sets and several individual volumes have been up for sale in that group in the past two years. I would also put it up for sale on Ebay.
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    Best bird guides by region...North America

    Nat Geo was my first field guide and I have very much enjoyed the updated editions so this is disappointing news. I must have missed that Disney bought National Geographic Publishing, but it explains a lot seeing as Disney seemingly ruins everything they touch these days.
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    Costa Rican Taxonomy

    I worked extensively on plant taxonomy in Hawaii prior to retiring and do agree that it is important to include phylogeny when describing new species, however it seems to me that these days many people working on taxonomy is more interested sitting in front of a computer in the lab solely...
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    Costa Rican Taxonomy

    I live on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and come across the undescribed Puntarenas Screech-Owl quite regularly while birdwatching. Does anyone know if someone is actually working on describing this species? sadly it seems that when it comes to avian taxonomy these days people are more...
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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    Revised edition of the Australian Bird Guide is due for publication in October 2024.
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    Best bird guides by region...Central and South America

    Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba is due for publication in November 2024 https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/field-guide-to-the-birds-of-cuba-9781399421911/
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    Lynx Edicions - What Next ?

    First edition included 916 species and the second edition will include 928 species Birds of Vietnam - Lynx Nature Books
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    Best bird guides by region...Asia

    Another title that have just been published. Lynx Nature Books have also announced the 2nd edition of Birds of Vietnam with a publication date in mid-July.
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    Best bird guides by region...Africa

    Birds of Angola by Mills, Demey and Borrow is now listed on the Princeton University Press website with a publication date in September 2024. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691267005/birds-of-angola?fbclid=IwAR323QsvmihEeIgatlaHa2n-n-yjgmVQe_y0zQRggKZw--zrkNHkqhsxKi0
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    Your most anticipated futures books

    One of the books aim most looking forward to is Reptiles of Ecuador which is being worked on by the team behind Tropical Herping. They have undertaken extensive fieldwork throughout Ecuador during the past 13+ years in preparations for this book. In this process they have discovered more than 10...
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    Lynx Edicions - What Next ?

    Aim having a really hard time making any sense of the direction that Lynx Nature Books (as they are called now) is taking. They claim there is no economy in publishing field guides as publication costs and demands have made it unsustainable. At the same time they are announcing second editions...
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    Best bird guides by region...Asia

    This book have just been published.
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    (Not only) Thamnophilidae

    Integrative taxonomy of Cercomacroides serva (Sclater, 1858) demonstrates the validity of C. hypomelaena (Sclater, 1890) comb. nov. (Aves: Thamnophilidae). https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/112446/
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