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ASIA BIRD BOOKS
 Threatened
Birds of Asia. The BirdLife International Red Data Book.
N.J. Collar, A.V. Andreev, S. Chan, M.J. Crosby, S. Subramanya
and J.A. Tobias (eds.) 2 volumes, 3038 pages. 2001. Detailed
information on the 665 most threatened species. All the species
accounts are
available free online as pdf files.
US |
UK |
| Peter Spierenburg. Birds in Bhutan: Status
and Distribution. 384 pages. Oriental Bird Club 2005.
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
Nigel Wheatley. Where to Watch Birds in
1. ASIA (hardcover)
US |
UK |
| 2. EUROPE & RUSSIA (paperback)
US |
UK |
| Ben F. King. Checklist of the Birds of
Eurasia. 112 pages. Covers 3051 species. Ibis Publishing.
1998.
UK |
| Krys Kazmierczak and
Ber van Perlo. A Field Guide to the Birds of the Indian
Subcontinent. Pica Press &
Yale University Press 2000.
US |
UK |
| Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp.
Birds of India (i.e., the "Pocket Guide"). The shortened
"field" edition. Christopher Helm & Princeton University Press,
1999.
US |
UK |
| Richard Grimmett,
Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp. Illustrations by Clive Byers, Daniel
Cole, John Cox, Grerald Driessens, Carl D'Silva, Martin Elliott,
Kim Franklin, Alan Harris, Peter Hayman, Craig Robson, Jan
Wilczur & Tim Worfolk. A Guide to the Birds of India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
Unabridged edition. Christopher Helm & Princeton University
Press, 1998.
US |
UK |
 Richard
Grimmett & Tim Inskipp. Birds of Northern India. Regional
guide to Northern India and Pakistan extracted from the authors'
huge subcontinent guide. 320 pages. Helm & Princeton University
Press 2003.
US |
UK |
| Tim Inskipp, Carol Inskipp, Richard Grimmett.
Field Guide to the Birds of Nepal. Christopher Helm and
Princeton University Press 2000.
US |
UK |
| Carol Inskipp, Tim Inskipp & Richard Grimmett.
A Field Guide to the Birds of Bhutan. A & C Black 1999.
US |
UK |
| Otto Pfister. Birds and Mammals of Ladakh.
450 pages. Oxford University Press 2004.
US |
UK |
| John Harrison & Tim
Worfolk (illustrator). A Field Guide to the Birds of Sri
Lanka. Oxford University Press, 1999.
US |
UK |
| Pamela C. Rasmussen & John C. Anderton.
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide.
Details. 2 volumes, 1072 pages. 180 color plates.
Illustrated by John Anderton, Ian Lewington, Hilary Burn, Tom
Schultz, N. John Schmitt, Larry B. McQueen, Hans Peeters,
Jonathan Alderfer, Albert E. Gilbert, Bill Zetterstrom, Kristin
Williams & Cynthia House with plates from HBW. Lynx Edicions
2005. The good news: It's much better than any bird book
actually written by Ripley. The bad news: The heavy, 2-volume
set is hopeless as a field guide, suffering from extremely poor
usability. The type font is VERY small -- too small to be read
easily by most people over 40. Furthermore, the volume with the
color plates includes no voice descriptions and little natural
history information.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| A Photographic Guide to Birds of Sri Lanka.
Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Deepal Warakagoda & T.S.U. de Zylva.
252 species illustrated, including all but 4 of the endemics.
New Holland, 2000.
US |
UK |
|
T.J. Roberts. The
Birds of Pakistan, Volume 1: Regional Studies and
Non-passerines. 640 pages. Oxford University Press, 1991.
US |
UK |
| T.J. Roberts. The Birds of Pakistan, Volume
2: Passerines. 654 pages. Oxford University Press, 1992.
US |
UK |
|
T.J. Roberts. The
Butterflies of Pakistan. 300 pages. 60 colour plates. Oxford
University Press, 2001.
US |
UK |
| V. Flint. A Field Guide to the Birds of
Russia & Adjacent Territories. 440 pages. Princeton
University Press, 1983.
US |
| John MacKinnon, Karen
Phillipps & Fen-Qi He. A Guide to the Birds of China.
Oxford University Press 2004 (2000).
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Woo-Shin
Lee, Tae-Hoe Koo and Jin-Young Park. A Field Guide to the
Birds of Korea. 330 pages. 120 color plates. LG Evergreen
Foundation. 2000.
US |
UK |
| Wild Bird Society of Japan. A Field Guide to
the Birds of Japan. 336 pages. Compact field guide with
facing plate text and range maps. 1982. Out of print.
US |
| Craig Robson. Birds of Southeast Asia.
304 pages. New Holland & Princeton University Press. Updated,
field guide edition 2005. Illustrations now rearranged on 142
color plates facing text, depicting 28 additional species and
with 140 improved or corrected illustrations.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Craig Robson. Birds of Southeast Asia.
Princeton University Press. Updated, field guide edition 2005.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Craig
Robson, A Guide to the Birds of SouthEast Asia. Great new
guide. My only regret is that no large paper edition is
available, as the print is VERY small. New Holland & Princeton
University Press, 2000.
US |
UK |
David R. Wells, with contributions by Philip D.
Round & Uthai Treesucon. The Birds of the Thai-Malay
Peninsula. Volume 1: Non-Passerines. 648 pages. 69 colour
plates by Geoffrey Davison, Ian Lewington, Philip Burton, David
Digby, Dana Gardner (view
plates on Dana's website), Peter Hayman, David Quinn & Chris
Rose. Woodcuts by Dana Gardner. Now the standard reference on
the birds of the Malay peninsula. Poyser & Princeton Universtiy
Press. 1999.
US |
UK
Volume 2 (2004?)
US |
UK |
| Martin Woodcock & Frank Lambert. Collins
Illustrated Checklist: Birds of South-East Asia. 112 colour
plates. HarperCollins. Forthcoming 2007.
UK |
| Boonsong Lekagul & Philip D.
Round. A Guide to the Birds of Thailand. Illustrated by
Mongkol Wongkalasin & Kamol Komolphalin. 1991. 135 color plates.
US |
UK |
 Craig
Robson. Birds of Thailand. 272 pages. New Holland &
Princeton University Press 2002. Illustrations and abbreviated
text from Robson's Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia.
Much easier to use in Thailand than the more comprehensive book
and more up-to-date than Boonsong & Round.
US |
UK |
| Allen Jeyarajasingam and
Alan Pearson. A Field Guide to the Birds of West Malaysia and
Singapore. Oxford University Press, 1999.
US |
UK |
| John Bransbury. Birdwatcher's Guide to
Malaysia. Paperback. Waymark Publishing, 1993.
UK |
| John MacKinnon & Karen Phillipps (illustrator),
in collaboration with Paul Andrew & Frank Rozendaal. A Field
Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java & Bali. 491
pages. 88 colour plates. Oxford University Press, 1993.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
JP |
| Robert S. Kennedy, Pedro
C. Gonzales, Edward C. Dickinson, Hector C. Miranda, Jr. &
Timothy H. Fisher. A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines.
528 pages. Oxford University Press 2000. 72 color plates.
US |
UK |
| A Photographic Guide to Bird of the
Philippines. Tim Fisher & Nigel Hicks. 214 species
illustrated. New Holland 2000.
US |
UK |
| Paul Jepson. Birding Indonesia. 320
pages. Fielding, 1997.
US |
UK |
| Dick Watling. A Guide to the Birds of Fiji
and Western Polynesia, including American Samoa, Niue, Samoa,
Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu & Futuna. (2001). 272 pages. 16 color
plates by Chloë Talbot Kelly. Revised and reformatted edition of
Watling's Birds of Fiji, Tonga & Samoa. Order from Dick
Watling's website,
PacificBirds Fiji. |
| Earl of Cranbrook (ed.) Wonders of Nature in
Southeast Asia. Excellent compilation of excerpts from
famous and obscure works by the great explorers, with comments
by Cranbrook throughout. Oxford University Press 1997.
UK |
| Ian Sinclair & Olivier Langrand. Illustrated by
Peter Hayman, Norman Arlott, Ian Lewington & Hilary Burn.
Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius,
Réunion, Rodrigues, the Seychelles and the Comoros. The book
to carry in the field in Madagascar and the other islands. 184
pages. Struik 1998.
US |
UK |
| Adrian Skerrett, Ian Bullock, Tony Disley
(Illustrator). Field Guide to the Birds of the Seychelles.
Christopher Helm & Princeton University Press 2001.
WorldTwitch
2001 Best Bird Book Award. 320 pages.
US |
UK |
| H. Elliott McClure. Migration and Survival
of the Birds of Asia. 531 pages. 2d edition, 1998.
US |
UK |
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