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Princeton University Press Bird Books, 1998-2002
[Princeton
Bird Books, 2003-2006]
[Princeton Bird
Books Published before 1998]
2002 Releases:
Lars Jonsson. Birds and Light: The Art of Lars Jonsson.
224 pages.
Details. Superb "coffee table" book.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Art Book. The life story of
Lars Jonsson, with many field sketches, previously unpublished
paintings, and plates from his field guides. Helm & Princeton
University Press 2002.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey & Warwick Tarboton. Illustrated by
Peter Hayman & Norman Arlott. SASOL Birds of Southern Africa.
464 pages. Struik & Princeton University Press. 3d Edition,
2002.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - Africa. Revised and
much improved, reflecting extensive taxonomic revisions and
improvements in bird identification. Enhanced usability with
Morcombe-style separators on the plates. Covers 31
species not in the second edition.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Craig
Robson. Birds of Thailand. 272 pages. New Holland &
Princeton University Press 2002.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - Asia. 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.
However, it is very difficult to match the illustrations with
the facing text, as the bird numbers are buried in the text and
not even highlighted. Morcombe separators, as used by Sinclair,
and bolded bird numbers would have made this guide much more
user-friendly. (Perhaps they might be added in a second
printing?)
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Hadoram
Shirihai. A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: The birds
and mammals of the Antarctic Continent and Southern Ocean.
Illustrated by Brett Jarrett.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - Oceans and Islands.
512 pages. 35 plates. 600 photographs. Alula Press 2002 &
Princeton University Press 2003 (Brochure
- pdf). An essential companion on trips to the Antarctic
region. Printed on glossy paper, with photos throughout.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Nik
Borrow & Ron Demey. A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa.
Helm & Princeton University Press 2002.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - Africa. The first
comprehensive field guide to the birds of West Africa. 147 color
plates depicting over 1200 species. 816 pages.
US |
UK - PUP |
UK - Helm |
DE |
FR |
CA
Reduced, paperback field guide edition (2004):
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
 Steve
Madge & Phil McGowan. With Guy Kirwan. Illustrated by Norman
Arlott, Robin Budden, Daniel Cole, John Cox, Carl D'Silva, Kim
Franklin & David Mead. Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse.
A Guide to the Pheasants, Patridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl,
Buttonquails, and Sandgrouse of the World.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Family Book Award. 488
pages. 72 color plates. Christopher Helm & Princeton University
Press 2002.
US |
UK - Helm |
UK - PUP |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Nigel Wheatley & David Brewer. Where to
Watch Birds in Central America, Mexico & the Caribbean. 432
pages. Helm & Princeton University Press. 2002.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| The Complete Guide to
the Birds of Europe. Large paper edition of the Collins Bird
Guide. 8.3" x 12". Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson, Dan
Zetterström & Peter J. Grant.
WorldTwitch 2002 Best Bird Book - Europe.
HarperCollins (2000) & Princeton University Press (2002).
Expanded text and larger color illustrations. I consider this to
be the world's finest single-volume bird book and the field
guide version to be the world's finest field guide. Magnificent
color plates. Space well utilized to provide essential
identification details.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
2000-2001 Releases:
| Hadoram Shirihai, Gabriel Gargallo & Andreas
Helbig. Illustrated by Alan Harris. Photos by David Cottridge.
Edited by Guy Kirwan & Lars Svensson. Sylvia Warblers.
Christopher Helm & Princeton University Press 2001.
WorldTwitch 2001 Best Bird Book - Europe and Middle East.
The best family monograph thus far. 572 pages. 20 color
plates. 546 color photographs.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| 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. 53
color plates.
US |
UK |
DE |
FR |
CA |
| Tony Harris & Kim Franklin. Shrikes and
Bush-Shrikes. Christopher Helm & Princeton University Press
2000. 392 pages.
US |
UK |
| Tim Inskipp, Carol Inskipp, Richard Grimmett.
Field Guide to the Birds of Nepal. Christopher Helm and
Princeton University Press 2000.
US |
UK |
| 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 Beadle & James Rising. Sparrows
[Buntings] of the United States and Canada: The Photographic
Guide. 320 pages. A&C Black and Princeton University Press
2001.
US |
UK |
| Nicholas B. Davies, David Quinn (illustrator).
Cuckoos, Cowbirds & Other Cheats. Superb natural history
of brood parasites, including an appendix listing the 100 known
species of parasitic birds and their hosts. 8 pages of colour
photos. Davies frames key questions that have not been answered,
which students might consider when deciding on a thesis topic.
[Earlier book by the same authors:
Dunnock
Behaviour & Evolution.] Black & white drawings. 310 pages.
Poyser and Princeton University Press 2000.
US |
UK |
| Noel & Helen Snyder. The California Condor:
A Saga of Natural History & Conservation. A&C Black and
Princeton University Press 2000. 395 pages.
US |
UK |
| James Hancock. Herons of North America:
Their World in Focus. A&C Black and Princeton University
Press 2000. 128 pages.
US |
UK |
| Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington.
Butterflies of Europe. (UK title: Collins Field Guide to the
Butterflies of Britain and Europe.) There still is no butterfly
field guide for Europe comparable to
Jeff Glassberg's North American butterfly guides. Butterfly
guides illustrated with field (not pinned) photos are
almost always superior to guides illustrated by artists, in
contrast to bird guides. This rather mediocre guide illustrated
by paintings is the best now in print, although the prior
Collins guide by Higgins & Riley may actually be more useful in
the field. 320 pages. 104 color plates. HarperCollins 1997 and
Princeton University Press 2001.
US |
UK - Collins |
UK - PUP |
Nigel Wheatley. Where to Watch Birds in
1. ASIA (hardcover)
US |
UK
2. EUROPE & RUSSIA (paperback)
US |
UK
3. AFRICA
Softcover (US) |
Hardcover (UK)
4. AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA (hardcover)
US |
UK
5. SOUTH AMERICA
Softcover (US) |
Hardcover (UK)
6. CENTRAL AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
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UK
1998-1999 Releases:
| 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. Volume 2 forthcoming. A&C
Black and Princeton University Press 1999.
US |
UK |
| Birds of Europe. (Collins Field Guide).
HarperCollins & Princeton University Press, 1999. [Online
index] The work of both artists, Killian Mullarney and Dan
Zetterström, is equally impressive, and great care has been
taken to present a vast amount of material in a compact field
guide. I consider this to be the world's finest field guide.
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 |
| Chris Feare & Adrian Craig. Kamol Komolphalin
(Illustrator). Starlings & Mynas. Christopher Helm &
Princeton University Press 1999.
US |
UK |
| Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, David J.
Pearson & Ian Willis. Field Guide to the Birds of Kenya &
Northern Tanzania. Compact version: 576 pages. Christopher
Helm & Princeton University Press 1999.
US |
UK |
| Alvaro Jaramillo & Peter Burke, The New
World Blackbirds: The Icterids. Christopher Helm & Princeton
University Press 1999.
US |
UK |
| Herbert A. Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando
Garrido, Allan Keith & Janis Raffaele. Birds of the West
Indies. Helm & Princeton University Press, 1998. 512 pages.
85 color plates. (Contrary to this guide and Brewer, Wrens,
Dippers & Thrashers, there is only one trembler per island.
Trip reports claiming two species twitched on Martinique or St.
Lucia are likewise wrong. See Storer 1989, which is cited in
Brewer's appendix!)
US |
UK |
| Ber van Perlo. Princeton Illustrated
Checklist: Birds of Southern Africa. HarperCollins, 1999 &
Princeton University Press 2001.
US |
UK |
| Ber van Perlo. Princeton Illustrated
Checklist: Birds of Eastern Africa. HarperCollins 1995 &
Princeton University Press 2001.
US |
UK |
| Peter K. Grant. Ecology and Evolution of
Darwin's Finches. 512 pages. 20 color illus. 117 halftones.
101 line illus. Princeton University Press. Revised edition,
1999. Updated edition taking into account new discoveries made
in the 13 years since the original publication.
US |
UK |
| Mark Beaman & Steve Madge. Illustrated by
Hilary Burn, Martin Elliott, Alan Harris, Peter Hayman, Laurel
Tucker & Dan Zetterstrom. The Handbook of Bird Identification
(for Europe and the Western Palearctic.) 868 pages. 355
plates. Christopher Helm & Princeton University Press 1998.
US |
UK |
| Graham Harris. A Guide to the Birds &
Mammals of Coastal Patagonia. 251 pages. 33 color plates.
Princeton University Press 1998.
US |
UK |
| James Hancock. Herons & Egrets of the World:
A Photographic Journey. A&C Black and Princeton University
Press 1999. 208 pages.
US |
UK |
| Dick Forsman, The Raptors of Europe and the
Middle East. Poyser and Princeton University Press 1998. 608
pages.
US |
UK |
| Ingvar Byrkjedal & Des Thompson. Tundra
Plovers: the Eurasian, Pacific and American Golden Plovers and
Grey Plover. Poyser and Princeton University Press 1998. 400
pages.
US |
UK |
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