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- From: jhiggott@axion.bt.co.uk (Jeff Higgott)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Are there? (Was :test)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.085807@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 08:58:07 GMT
- References: <671@quirm.terminus.ericsson.se> <christea.29.722177320@dhhalden.no>
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- In article <christea.29.722177320@dhhalden.no>, christea@dhhalden.no
- (CHRISTER ANDR JAKOBSEN) writes:
- |>
- |> By the way, I think that Lars Jonssons "Birds of Britain and Europe,
- |> with
- |> North-Africa and the Middle East" is the definitive field guide to
- |> date.
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- An excellent book with excellent artwork. On the whole the paintings
- are very accurate, though the Cormorants/Shags (for example) look a bit
- odd. There are a few minor typographic problems -for example Belted
- Kingfisher is described as having "blue-green" [blue-grey] upperparts, a
- flying Purple Sandpiper is captioned as Curlew Sandpiper, a Black and
- White Warbler in the introduction is captioned Blackpoll. Despite what
- Golley said in his review of the book in Birding World, the fresh and
- worn adult summer Curlew Sandpipers ARE correctly captioned.
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- Everyone should buy this book even if they only have a passing interest
- in European birds. It is excellent.
-
- Jeff...
-
- "..Crystal Palace every summer, mis-pronouncing the Kenyan runners.
- It gets worse in the winter, struggling with the videprinter."
- - I, LUDICROUS
-