A guide to Australian bird guides
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2022
- In this video I review the 5 Australian bird guides currently available in bookshops (as at Jan 2022). These books are Pizzey and Knight, Simpson and Day, the Slater field guide, the CSIRO Australian Bird Guide and the Complete Guide to Australian Birds (the photographic guide book). As well as other bird identification books and material that is readily available.
If you've ever wondered which book is for you, this may help you choose!
Thanks for the information, it's very helpful. I'm in the same boat with the RUclips thing, it's hard to gain subscribers quickly with the content we make. But anyway, we keep ploughing through. You have my subscription 😊.
The bucket list would be to capture all the bird species mentioned in the book.
My problem is memory so I just use Google to identify. I would hope if I got it wrong a viewer would correct it. Good video
I have the CSIRO book and it drived me nuts the way the bird size is indicated. I have to do mental spatial gymnastics to get a sense of how big the thing is, comparatively.
Agree. They fixed that with the compact guide though
Thanks for this.When I was 13 my dad told me I should become birdwatcher. I went to a book shop to buy a bird guide. I was encouraged to buy an obscure little book called "Some common Australian Birds".Probably had about 50 birds in it It got me started and I still have it. Collected many more since.Enjoyed this video. I subscribed but I 've been posting for several years but I have not become an overnight sensation yet,Cheers Geoff
Thanks Geoff - the little localised books are always good value, I've got a few of them myself. I subscribed to your channel and look forward to checking out your videos - we cover a lot of the same topics :-)
The Collins guide in the UK made it easy to choose which guide. I have the Simpson and Day and pleased I took that option. Cms still mean nothing to me and a comment along the lines of ‘roughly the size of a whatever’ is preferred.
Collins for work, Jonsson for pleasure.
I have the /Slaters both editions.. i was a bit bemused by your opinion about the slate colour background on mine the backgrounds are more pale blue, gray. I have a personal reason to love my slaters.. Peter and family have been dear friends and I have actually seen him painting and working on the pictures shown in his books. Sadly we lost Peter 2 years ago but I think about him constantly when photographing birds in my yard and away... I also love my Morecombe eGuide.Great for bird calls nests etc... thanks for your great post here.
Boa noite. Sou do Brasil e amo os Papagaios Australianos. Suas dicas sobre os guias foram muito ricas. Obrigado e forte abraço. Renato
Thanks for your reply to my comment that disappeared, "Thanks Ross. I aim to get hold of the Morecambe book and do a review when I can" as I shouldn't have tried to edit it which made it disappear.
I had mentioned how well I liked the 2nd edition of "Field Guide to Australian Birds" by Michael Morcombe.
Cheers, Ross.
The beauty of emailed notices gave me what I had written before I had played with it. 😊
"Thank you for all that wealth of information. I'm glad you mentioned the Morcombe books because I have (was given) the 2nd edition of "Field Guide to Australian Birds" by Michael Morcombe. I find it very useful with its layout, thumbnail distribution maps for each bird & the size for each as well as its descriptions. Sometimes the colours I find may need a little interpretation, but that is likely for many illustrated books, & possibly better in those 'lovingly painted' ones you described. "
I've always found that translating a painting in a guide to an ID is a personal preference as well. I always found Simpson and Day very good and struggled to ID from Slater, but I know other people that found it easy to ID from Slater. I'll admit I don't take my guide in the field much anymore but when I was starting out my Simpson and Day was such a valuable asset. I prefer the illustrated guides because often find they have more details and fine differences between species illustrated. Whereas photo books often only have one photo per species and don't mark out specific details.
Thanks Bec - that's pretty much my thoughts and experience too :-)
Thanks Bec - that's pretty much my thoughts and experience too :-)
worth a listen. A fairly accurate review, I have all of the guides including Morcombes, all have their good points, My favourite is Simpson & Day, but that's what I started with after Cawley's What bird is that
Hello! Thanks for this book guide. I'm really interested in the nesting and behavioural aspect of our birds, do you have a book recommendation that either focuses on or goes in depth with this?
Hi there, the one book which I didn't review at the time (because I didn't have a copy then) is Michael Morcombe's Field Guide to Australian Birds - I think it has the best section on nesting of all our bird guides. This book is out of print now so you may have to try second hand stores, but I think it's an outstanding book. For general bird behaviour I'd recommend Why Do Birds Do That? by Grainne Cleary - it's a fantastic book too, and in print. I reviewed it here ruclips.net/video/m3RC6RcEZ6c/видео.html
@@birdbites Amazing! Thank you for such a thorough response! I'll try and check them both out :)
Pizza is the best dont agree about description ❤
Fair enough :-)