Subject: 100 best books
Date: May 8 17:00:31 2004
From: Levine, Barron - LevineB at bsd405.org


And yet another vote for Mullarney. Other field guides that have added immensely to my life: Birds of Ecuador by Ridgely and Greenfield, The Guide to the Birds of Mexico by Howell and Webb, and A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by Stiles, Skutch and Gardner.
Add in many of the Lane Guides, the Birder's Handbook, and for light reading Redtails in Love and I'd be good.
Leave it to Ian to lead us down this path.

Barry Levine
Seattle
levineb at bsd405.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sundstrom [mailto:ixoreus at scattercreek.com]
Sent: Sat 5/8/2004 2:58 PM
To: bruceb at olypen.com; tweeters
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Subject: Re: 100 best books



Another vote for Mullarney et al, truly an ideal model of a regional birding
field guide! A second guide very worthy of mention is Brian Wheeler's
Raptors of Western North America (2003, Princeton), which has taken raptor
ID to a new level even for the old hands. And don't forget the non-guide
category. Two books I would never part with if I had to pare down to 100
birding related books are Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, possibly the
only really funny book ever written about birding; and Ernest A. Choate's
The Dictionary of American Bird Names, possibly my most well worn
non-field-guide.

Bob Sundstrom
ixoreus at scattercreek.com
Tenino, WA



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Moorhead" <bruceb at olypen.com>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 2:38 PM
Subject: 100 best books


> I'm a bit amazed that no one has mentioned an obvious book for me: Birds
of
> Europe, Mullarney et al, paperback. I have alot of books and it's simply
the
> best field guide I've ever seen: compact, dense with useful info., and
> superbly illustrated: a book for all seasons (even if you never bird
> Europe!).
>
> Bruce Moorhead
> Port Angeles, WA
> bruceb at olypen.com
>