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  1. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I saw from the Nokomis bookseller website that the second edition of the Field Guide to the Birds of North Queensland by Phil Gregory and Jun Matsui is apparently now in stock. I have yet to see a copy and have no information about when it was released, but it features many new and improved...
  2. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I have the New Holland edition and it's great, well worth having the update
  3. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Not me, I was en route to Madagascar. Glad you saw Fawn-breasted Bowerbird
  4. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    All very confusing, IOC split Hornbill Friarbird some years back, and the ABG says it follows IOC taxonomy, which in this case it does not. "Helmeted Friarbird" badly needs splitting up, the NT birds are clearly different and of two distinct taxa, and this Cape York taxon is pretty distinctive...
  5. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    The golden rule of Oz field guides is that they have to be an unorthodox size- big and bulky like the Aus Bird Guide and Pizzey and Knight or too wide like Day and Plant and Morecombe; the only ones that are a nice size for field use are the venerable Slater and the field edition of Morecombe. I...
  6. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I did a short review for it FYI Birds of Mongolia by Gombobataar Sundev and Christopher Leahy (Helm Field Guides 2019) It is great to finally have the long awaited complete and up to date bird guide for Mongolia, a huge country where for years we have only had frustratingly partial coverage...
  7. sicklebill

    Your most anticipated futures books

    That Lynx posting about the top ten most wanted Lynx Field Guides included Australia and New Zealand amongst them, quite odd as there are already some 5 Australian Field Guides, the most recent from 2017, and New Zealand has a pretty good one. I am cautiously optimistic that Phil Gregory's Birds...
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