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Robins and Chats by Peter Clement and Chris Rose – review
11th November, 2018 | Reviews
The Robins and Chats authored by Peter Clement and Chris Rose published by Christopher Helm in 2015 (ISBN: 9780713639636) is part of the “new” series of Helm ID guides which apart from colour plates contains also some colour photographs of birds, colour maps and in some cases also spectrograms of bird songs... Read more »
Demongin and Baker non-passerine comparison chart
12th May, 2017 | Reviews
UPDATED – 11th January, 2018
Thanks to fellow ringer Ivo Hertl I am now bringing you also the list of species present in the first edition of Baker’s guide. You can also download the table as excel sheet here: baker-demongin.xlsx [20.0 kB]
A comparison chart of the three major books dealing with European non-passerines intended as a reference for bird ringers. These are:
- Identification of European Non-Passerines, 1st edition (1993) Jeff K. Baker, British Trust for Ornithology, ISBN: 0903793180, link
- Identification of European Non-Passerines, 2nd edition (2016) Jeff K. Baker, British Trust for Ornithology, ISBN: 978-0-903793-18-6, link
- Identification Guide to Birds in the Hand (2016) Laurent Demongin, Beauregard-Vendon, ISBN: 978-2-9555019-0-0, link
Please note that the Identification Guide to Birds in the Hand... Read more »