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Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 8Th Edition CSIRO PUBLISHING www.publish.csiro.au/journals/emu Emu, 2011, 111, 188–190 Book reviews FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 8TH cut 100 pages (25%) out of this book but you cannot of course, have everything. EDITION Tempting as it is to write a mostly adulatory piece, such a By Nicholas Day and Ken Simpson piece would not advance the study of Australian birds. So being 2010. Published by Viking (Penguin Books), Camberwell, VIC, picky, how, in my opinion, could this guide be improved? First Australia. 382 pp., 132 colour plates, 1000 b/w line illustrations, of all, the drawings though very good, are not the pinnacle of distribution maps. Paperback, $39.95, ISBN 9780670072316. work in this field of endeavour. In my opinion, for its coverage of variation and its extraordinary detail in a compact volume, The It’s all about the pictures. You can write sparkling descriptions Sibley Guide to Birds (Sibley 2000) is a class above. Sitting and draw flash maps but at that critical moment when you are down to band a netful of Dendroica warblers during their trying to identify a bird that you don’t recognise, it’s all about autumn migration gives an appreciation of just how good bird the picture. And these days in Australia, truth be told, we are illustrations can be. The Simpson and Day guide does have pretty spoilt. Anyone who has travelled India with the Pictorial some awesome plates, such as Ninox, Tyto, Artamus, Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (Ali et al. 1983) Coracina, Lalage and Myiagra. However, others, such as would not complain about any one of the field guides available Strepera, Arses, Monarcha and some of the Malurus species, in Australia. And anyone who has ever visited a new country are low-resolution. When I look at some of the arid-zone taxa with a guide without pictures is pretty pleased to have any that I know well, some of the Cape York species I have banded, or illustrations. the ACT and southern NSW species that I have recently worked The Eighth Edition of Simpson and Day’s guide to Australian with, I see a number with room for improvement. For example, birds performs the basic function of illustrating and describing the contrast in colouring across the back of the Red-browed Australian birds wonderfully well. When you think about all Treecreeper (Climacteris erythrops) is distinctively different the information that this single volume contains; starting with from the relatively uniform colouring across the back of the the vast collective effort of birdwatchers paid and unpaid, White-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucopheus), but this decisions about what to include and what to leave out, and difference is not illustrated. Similarly, the light-coloured edging most importantly: drawing the pictures; it truly is a wonderful of the flight feathers of the Slaty-backed Thornbill (Acanthiza piece of work. And so it should be, because for all of us, from robustirostris), in particular the tertials, is distinctively different Emeritus-professor to casual layman, our experience of birds, the from the Inland Thornbill (Acanthiza apicalis), but this also is not knowledge we accumulate of them, our ability to contribute to illustrated. The Redthroat (Pyrrholaemus brunneus) has a gizz the collection of data and the decisions that our community (general impression of size and shape) similar to the White- makes for conservation and sustainable development are all browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis), but this is not mediated by the guides we use. Field guides are living captured. Instead, the birds are depicted in an atypical pose; documents, reflecting just as much the passion and energy of perching on a branch. Australian bird enthusiasts as they do the work of the dedicated A few other illustrations are misleading. The bellies of the and brave souls willing to risk the fusillade of criticism that male Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris pallida) and surely follows the publication of any document intended for such Grey Shrike-thrush (Collurucincla harmonica rufiventris) are an opinionated and argumentative constituency as the too red and so is the overall plumage of the Little Button-quail ornithologists. As this guide generously states in the preface, (Turnix velox). The Crested Bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) should Australian birdos should enjoy the luxury of four high-quality be greyer, race albicauda of the Grey Fantail (Rhipidura works. fuliginosa) should be lighter and race rubeculus of the Grey- So what is it that makes Simpson and Day special? The crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis) is too dark. The biggest positive of this guide is the attempt to include all the Red-backed Kingfisher (Todiramphus pyrrhopygia), Rainbow forms of Australian birds. The variation in plumage as a result of Bee-eater (Merops ornatus), Bourke’s Parrot (Neopsephotus sex, age, season and location is a complex and fascinating feature bourkii), Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) and Major of birds and full coverage is desirable. Another feature of this Mitchell’s Cockatoo (cacatua leadbeateri) are too gaudy guide, vital for furthering knowledge, is the illustrated vagrant whereas the illustrations of the Swift Parrot (Lathamus bird list. Although I am not personally a fan of the ‘I saw a bird discolor) and the Catbirds (Ailureodus spp.) do not capture out of its range’ style of bird appreciation, without such a list the their dazzling plumage. I also think the crests of the Shrike-tits accumulation of knowledge about rarer species from sparsely (Falcunculus spp.) are overemphasised making all the species populated regions of Australia will progress very slowly. Some appear stouter than they are; the male Diamond Firetail listed vagrants may not actually be vagrant and of course change (Stagonopleura guttata) is out of proportion and the two is inevitable. The other thing that I really like is the detailed Xanthotis honeyeaters lack detail. distribution maps. Considering the competition for space in a Having said that, I really like the drawings of the Black and comprehensive field guide, some of the information in the maps Pied Honeyeaters (Certhionyx niger and C. variegatus), Western is a bit difficult to extract but nonetheless (up to a point), more Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus guttatus), Rufous Songlark is more. The point where more is less is when the book is (Cyclorampus mathewsi), White-winged Chough (Corcorax too cumbersome to carry around. I like walking and I could melanoramphos) and White-faced Robin (Tregellasia Ó Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 2011 10.1071/MUv111n2_BR 0158-4197/11/020188 Book reviews Emu 189 leucops). I also appreciate the effort that has been taken to reduce portable solar panels might be the solution. An electronic future the difficulty separating some quite confusing species such as the appears inevitable, but in the meantime Simpson and Day is Corvids, the Frigatebirds (Fregata spp.) and the waders excellent. (Scolopacidae). The illustration of the quails (Phasianidae) and button-quails (Turnicidae) flying away from the observer is also Adam Leavesley an excellent feature because this is how we often see them. Fenner School of Environment and Society The other big question surrounding field guides is: where Australian National University to from here? The biggest flaw of the traditional field guide – the unsuitability of the medium of books to depict bird calls Acknowledgements and songs – is the most obvious area for improvement. This has already been addressed by applications such as The Sibley Thanks to Richard Allen and Peter Ewin for comments on a previous version eGuide to Birds of North America (designed for the iPhone), of this manuscript. Responsibility for errors is entirely mine. This piece is dedicated to the life’s work of Dr Norman Wettenhall, the driving force behind but greater functionality is foreseeable. As many researchers HANZAB and whose foundation supported my Ph.D. research in central are abandoning paper survey sheets for GPS-enabled personal Australia. digital assistants (PDA-GPS), field guides could go the same way. The GPS function would allow users to access the information based on their location. Furthermore, the digitised References fi eld guide could be coupled with a microphone or camera to Ali, S., and Ripley, S.D. (1983). ‘A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian collect spatially-coded data, so that you could download your Subcontinent.’ (Oxford University Press: Bombay, India.) records to a central database and upload the latest knowledge. Sibley, D.A. (2001). ‘The Sibley Guide to Birds.’ (National Audubon Keeping the battery charged in the field could be annoying but Society: New York.) Book reviews PARROTS OF THE WORLD illustrations appear a bit dull compared to the striking colour intensity that I have encountered in the field. For instance, the By Joseph Forshaw, illustrated by Frank Knight Brown-hooded Parrots (Gypopsitta haematotis) and White- 2010. Published by CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia, fronted Amazon (Amazona albifrons) that I have observed in 336pp., 46 colour plates, 375 maps. Paperback, AU$39.95, Costa Rica are much brighter and with much starker colour ISBN: 9780643100572. contrasts on wing patterns than indicated by the illustrations in this book. Parrots of the World is a gorgeous species account of all 356 The introduction contains a good overview of silhouettes of species of parrots and their numerous subspecies. Unlike other parrots in flight. However, the silhouette of the amazon species books with complete species account of parrots, this field guide depicts somewhat pointed wings bent backwards; a posture has a format that enables it to be brought along in the field or when mainly adopted when amazons descend. This is not a common travelling. The idea of a parrot field guide sounds tantalising, but silhouette. The amazons that I have watched in flight generally in reality there are few locations in the world where such a guide have rounded and straight wings.
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