Subject: [Tweeters] Costa Rican Field Guide Question
Date: Jan 6 11:24:46 2011
From: Levine, Barron S - LevineB at bsd405.org


Tweeters,

This is being discussed on The BCVan Bird group as well, so I thought
I'd throw this out to the group. Which field guide are people using for
trips to Costa Rica? What criteria entered into you picking that book?

Most of us know the classic "Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica" by
Skutch, Stiles and Gardner (1990). Hard to believe it's over 20 years
old, but ..... The other book that has been discussed is Richard
Garrigues and Robert Dean (2007) "The Birds of Costa Rica".

About the latter, there are some good reviews on Amazon including one
from our own Hans De Grys. I'm guessing Ian will have something to say.
Any others?

Also maybe begs the question given the brave new informational world
that we have: When do field guides need to either be updated or
supplanted?



Barry Levine

Seattle

levineb at fastmail.fm