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  1. Swissboy

    Your most anticipated futures books

    We had copies of the color plates from the Mexico "Bible" along for Cozumel. The texts could be consulted in the car as well. Worked out great, but I agree, those species should have been included in the fine and compact book. They could have included in the title "and the Yucatan peninsula"...
  2. Swissboy

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Yes, the overlap is considerable as can be seen from the Birds of Central America book (Vallely & Dyer). Yet there is also more diversity than one might suspect. From the North, the North American avifauna provides more than just many migrants that migrate differently far. There is also some...
  3. Swissboy

    Your most anticipated futures books

    I wonder whether that is an offshoot of the Vallely - Dyer book. Lots or all illustrations would already be available. But they'd have to shrink the format considerably to really make the books attractive. Just making them thinner would not be what is needed. I'd actually have preferred if...
  4. Swissboy

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    I can't help myself for thinking these are essentially some more of the same, excuses trying to park some good photos. But whether these books fulfill a great need by filling some voids like FGs for some areas of South America, I doubt it.
  5. Swissboy

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    They look much alike in the "Checklist" as well.
  6. Swissboy

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    Interesting, but I wonder whether there is really a need for another Gull book. I feel the authors also don't think that they'll sell all that many. Otherwise, the only redemption for providing photos (that are being used) coming in the form of one free copy of the book would seem rather pitiful.
  7. Swissboy

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    I also had no access all of yesterday. At this moment, I do have access, but not to the "new releases" and the "coming soon" pages!
  8. Swissboy

    Your most anticipated futures books

    All depends how much of a book collector one really is. I for one am mostly interested in new FGs now. I feel like at my age (78) I should rather sell than buy anyway. But in most ways, I have pretty much been in a situation like Niels here in Switzerland. It is easy to find the books I...
  9. Swissboy

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    I certainly agree with you. For my first trip to Costa Rica in 1971, there was simply nothing except a heavy book with descriptions that was also out of print. And the next best books with at least some plates were one for Guatemala by Hugh Land (1970), and De Schauensee for South America...
  10. Swissboy

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    Thanks Andy! Great opportunity to enlage my horizon a bit. :eat:
  11. Swissboy

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    Third print run for "All the Birds ..." (post #512) Info from Lynx: They expect the third print run for this book to become available by Dec 4th. So they either have a real "blockbuster" or else they did not dare doing a large enough second run. :-O
  12. Swissboy

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    That would then follow the pattern for some other South-America guides. Meaning, you only need to take vol. 1 out into the field.
  13. Swissboy

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    They have the illustrations on the inside covers that may help a bit. But emphasis is on the scientific names of the groups. The common names are there, but printed in a hard to read and very small font. Definitely not for a quick scanning for something like "Flycatcher".
  14. Swissboy

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    I agree regarding the advertisements. And I also concur regarding the dreadful index. Such a dismal treatment of a very important asset in any such book is simply inexcusable, not even with the economic argument. However, I usually am just as happy with a mixed index as is found here. All too...
  15. Swissboy

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    Got my copy Must have been reprinted before they started their new sales-campaign. At least, I got my copy just two weeks after placing my order. It's really amazing to now have a one-volume version of "All the Birds of the World"! But compared to the two-volume Illustrated Checklist, this is...
  16. Swissboy

    Your most anticipated futures books

    Finally ordered All the Birds... from Lynx Have finally become convinced to order this single-volume version as well. Reason for my reversal of the earlier decision came from studying the sample plate on the gallinules. I noticed not only that the "Purple Swamphen" has now been split into...
  17. Swissboy

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    A most impressive person, indeed. Thanks for linking to this obituary.
  18. Swissboy

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    I actually love your illustration much more than the more mechanical looking ones you presented first. Though the fulmar picture with the waterfalls is great as well.
  19. Swissboy

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    Very interesting shot. Something one usually does not get to see. Thanks so much for sharing.
  20. Swissboy

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    Any chance that this would mean a publishing date by the end of October 2020 is realistic?
  21. Swissboy

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    In the case of this particular book, I'll believe it when I see it. Way too many postponements in the past.
  22. Swissboy

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    Yes, the basic idea is what Roger Peterson realized very early on that a field guide should place similarly looking species next to one another. So the first European "Peterson" had swifts and swallows on the same plate. Very convenient for all who have their priorities straight when it comes to...
  23. Swissboy

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    From the preview pictures it looks like it is overly colorful. :eek!: Must be in fashion these days, but far from realistic.
  24. Swissboy

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    Lots of people will get it precisely because it now includes Hawaii. A few years ago when I was preparing for our Hawaii trip, it was such a book I was searching for. Though it turned out that the thin Hawaii-specific FGs were really just as convenient. Nevertheless, one needs a major North...
  25. Swissboy

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    Apparently a subspecies or close relative to the Helmeted Friarbird. Lives on the York Peninsula. In my first edition of the book, it is pictured on page 409 as ssp yorki.
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