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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    This, surely... ...(if correct) is a complete explanation. There's no need to postulate anything untoward. The concise edition (already including these updates, it seems) looks a much better buy for most people in any case.
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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    Bring back the Voous list of my youth! - and make it law 👍🏻
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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    You mean you have the big version rather than the (forthcoming) compact one I assume. Anyway . . . Phew - what a relief. I take it that all they've done (in both books) is to invent/adopt a sequence that very-loosely lumps together all the orders (or whatever they're called this week) that have...
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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    The question of a chosen taxonomic sequence is entirely different from that of dividing a field guide up by habitat.
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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    As it includes every regularly-occurring species in Australia it's clearly not intended - and would be inappropriate - for beginners. So it (apparently) tries to be both things at once and will thus (presumably) fail to be either. What a terrible wasted opportunity.
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    Best bird guides by region...Australasia?

    WHAAT?!?! Structured by the broad habitat where a species is most likely to be encountered: marine, freshwater and land. 🙁🙁🙁 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 Unbelievable. What on earth possessed them to do this.
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