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  1. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I would like to see a book, or better a series of films, about most beautiful and bizarre leks and mating displays of birds - e.g. argus pheasant, birds of paradise, diverse grouse, cotingas etc.
  2. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    They could appeal for a community translation. I heard that a bunch of teenage Harry Potter fans in Poland organized themselves online, split the book text into short fragments and within 10 days put online a complete, merged, proofed and polished Polish fan translation. This astonished the...
  3. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I received my copy of 'All the birds of the world'. Overall a nice book. It is easy to spend half an hour or more browsing. Low points are: - Many pages are printed too dark, e.g. Common Kingfisher. Others are low quality, eg. Neotropical Cormorant has black feet merging with the black...
  4. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I am looking forward to this book. My understanding is, however, that Tomasz, remarkably, makes his artwork traditionally, possibly with an airbrush. The perfect appearance of computer graphics is his style. Actually, I may be doing him injustice. Tomasz started making such art before computer...
  5. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Regarding extinct birds in Europe: you have Pterodroma petrels from Britain and Sweden, and quite a lot of birds from Canaries (a flightless quail, a flightless bunting, a greenfinch, two shearwaters etc.), Madeira and Azores. However all of them are known only from bones, so no chance of a nice...
  6. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Whatever, an imaginary line the bird makes in the air, a flight path.
  7. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Looking forward, it could become one of my most valuable references. :t: I met Tomasz over 20 years ago on a migration ringing camp on the Baltic. He was then watching tens of thousands of migrating birds and working on the book. It was a revelation to me when he pointed that one can easily...
  8. jurek

    Your most anticipated futures books

    They should split field guides to such bird-rich countries into several pieces geographically, say tropical North vs Central and South. Assuming field guide-books will survive the next decade without being replaced by apps. Tropical field guides are often unnecessarily cluttered. Often there...
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