Hello Tweets and Ian Paulsen:

I'm a volunteer at Seattle audubon and we have the title that Ian asked about. I'm not THAT familiar with the earlier books in the series, but this one looks pretty good. Each two pages has a page of color illustration and the opposite page has a range map and description. It's worth coming to look at! I certainly would call it more than just a checklist.

Rebecca Evans
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from Ian Paulsen:
HI:
I just saw that this title is now avaialble in the USA:
Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers. Francisco Erize, Jorge R. Rodriguez Mata, and Maurice Rumboll. Princeton University Press, 2006. A concise guide to the nearly 1300 species of non-passerines. Color plates, range maps. 376 pp. Paper. $29.95.
Has anyone seen it yet? If so what do you think of it? I'm not a fan of this series of "illustrated checklists" from Princeton/Helm, so is this title any better than the earlier volumes in the series?
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Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA USA
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