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| A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Third Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Ernest Preston Edwards
Creator: Edward Murrell Butler
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Category: Book
List Price: CDN$ 28.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 124713
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Pages: 285
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0292720912
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.0972
EAN: 9780292720916
ASIN: 0292720912
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 Substandard in almost every regard November 15, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
To be sure, this field guide is better than having no field guide. If birds posed for observation, it would be a great field guide. But for the real world this guide is disorganized in text and illustrations beyond excuse. I'm not sure this is the author's fault. It may be due to the publisher cutting costs. Still, no excuse. A birder will pay a premium for a great field guide. Illustrations are jammed together on each plate with no regard to proportionate size, or to other birds on that plate. For example, kingfishers are intermixed with trogons, motmots, swallows and woodpeckers on 3 separate plates. The amazon kingfisher is on one plate; the similar green kingfisher is 2 plates later. Quick comparison is impossible. Seven trogons are together on one plate, but the elegant trogon is 2 plates later. Some woodpeckers are on each of plates 20, 21 & 22; the imperial woodpecker is on plate 45. First I cried, then I laughed.
 Nice pictures, but disorganized April 17, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has what Peterson's "Mexican Birds" lacks: good colour pictures of (nearly) all birds of Mexico and adjacent areas and their Spanish names. However, the presentation of the pictures is a mishmash. The descriptions of the birds are not detailed but very short. It is a pity that there is no information about the behaviour of the birds, often very important for identification.
Birding in Belize April 21, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We used this book on a recent trip to Belize. It is THE book in use by local Belizian birding enthusiasts, and we only saw it for sale at one shop during our 12 day stay, so it might be hard to get once you're there. Birds of same species on different color plates slow you down, but the pictures are very good. Highly recommend taking this book with you if you plan to do any serious birdwatching.
A great book with a pesky fault December 8, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This field guide will enable you to see paintings of all of the birds that occur in the area. It also discusses (briefly) each bird. The paintings are excellent and the copy is quick and to the point. To pick at nits, though, the arrangement of the paintings is confusing. Not all birds in a specific family are illustrated on the same plate, and some are found pages away from the rest of their family. The logic seems to be that if the bird is found regularly in northern North America (the elegant trogon, for example) its picture does not need to run with the rest of its relatives. Close study of the guide can overcome this problem, however, making it an easy, economical way to pack the information of other guides into the field.
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