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Title: A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe by Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort, P. A. D. Hollom ISBN: 0-618-16675-0 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Good book, not the best organization.
Comment: I found this book to be informative as a guide to what I would find in Europe, but it received a poor grade in the field due to the poor organization. I had to flip through three sections to find a picture, description, and range-map for each bird. The maps were really too small for a US native to be able to tell which country was which, and the illustrations were consistantly exagerated to the point that you could only identify the so-called important features (which often were the same as important features of other birds) were all you could be certain were accurate to some extent. Even though I don't speak German, I actually found a book in German which was more useful to me than Peterson's. The German book, entitled GU Naturfuhrer "Vogel" (Birds), had accurate photos of every bird I saw on my trip. The maps in Vogel, although lacking lines seperating the countries, were much more identifiable to an American due mainly to size. After identifying the birds by the photos, I compared the scientific names to Peterson's, and was able to identify the birds with their English names (although usually the pictures in Peterson's looked nothing like those in "Vogel"). So as a field guide, Peterson's gets no stars, but for the descriptions and scientific names, it deserves a little credit.
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Title: Birds of Europe by Lars Svensson, Peter J. Grant, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom, P. J. Grant ISBN: 0691050546 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: A Field Guide to Warblers of North America (The Peterson Field Guide Series) by Jon Dunn, Kimball L. Garrett, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Larry O. Rosche ISBN: 0395783216 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Green Guide Birds of Britain and Europe by Jim Flegg, Martin Woodcock ISBN: 1859749232 Publisher: New Holland Publishers, Ltd. Pub. Date: 27 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Pocket Guide to the Birds of Britain and North-West Europe by Chris Kightley, Steve Madge, Dave Nurney, David Nurney ISBN: 0300074557 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America by David Sibley, David Allen Sibley ISBN: 067945120X Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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