• Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists

    12 days ago - By 10,000 Birds

    This field guide leaves me nothing short of impressed. It covers everything a birder wants to know about the world, and that is poorly covered in school. Here's an example: born and bred in Europe, I do not know much about the tropics, especially the bird-rich New World tropics. In recent years I was mostly poorly prepared when I visited the American tropics several times. Yes, I had local bird books, but only during my second tour of Costa Rica did I finally buy a mammal guide, and only after my trip to Colombian Amazon did I obtain a habitat guide. I had some books on worldwide biomes...
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