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A Field Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka is the first fully comprehensive, modern field guide to this ornithologically fascinating country. All of Sri Lanka's official avian species are described in the text and depicted in a collection of stunning color plates painted by Tim Worfolk, one of Britain's leading bird artists. The text, accessible to experienced ornithologists and beginners alike, highlights the important identification features such as plumage variations, size, calls and songs, range, distribution, and status for every species. The plates illustrate the various plumage variations for each bird, and show the birds perched and also in flight, where relevant to their identification.
An introduction to the guide describes briefly some of the best sites for watching Sri Lanka's abundant avifauna, and provides useful contact addresses for the prospective traveller. This will be an essential purchase for all birdwatchers travelling to the region; the beautiful plates and clearly-written text will also make it a must-have for anyone who loves birds, and Sri Lankan birds in particular.
- Sales Rank: #2283170 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
- Published on: 2011-03-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.50" h x .70" w x 7.90" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
Despite the small format the book comprehensively covers all confirmed and many more species found including rare winter guests and other birds that mistakenly find their way. [] it is an excellent field guide that greatly contributes to the ornithological research of the island state. Author and artist managed to depict and characterize all existing species in full colour and mostly superb pictures. With Birds of Sri Lanka local ornithologists and ornithology tourists finally have a handy field guide that fits into every backpack, fully satisfies experts, and meets international standards. - Highly recommendable! Volker Konrad, Hamburger Avifaunistische Beitrage
About the Author
John Harrison has had a lifelong interest in wildlife, and birds in particular. In 1973, he was appointed as a radio producer in the BBC Natural History Unit; during the 18 years he was there, he worked with most of the top naturalists and ornithologists in Britain. As a birdwatcher and wildlife enthusiast, he has made many visits to Sri Lanka over a number of years, and has a first-hand knowledge of the Sri Lankan avifauna. He is now the voluntary warden of a 70 ha wetland nature reserve for the Avon Wildlife Trust.
Tim Worfolk is a full-time wildlife artist with several publications to his credit.
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Quality, complete guide for all Sri Lanka's birds
By Jack Holloway
THE BASICS:
softcover; 48 color plates with good artistry show all 426 species known from the island; more complete than other similar books; species account for each bird focuses primarily on identification; a small range map is shown with each bird
THE REVIEW:
Of the few field guides that cover only Sri Lanka, this is easily the best book for several reasons. One, it is the only Sri Lanka guide to illustrate all birds of the island versus showing only the resident birds. Two, quality artistry show many more plumages. And, three, the text contains more information for identification and also offers tips to help distinguish between the similar species.
Each plate contains between 4-15 different species with most plates having about 10. To illustrate these birds, each plate may have anywhere between 15 and 40 different illustrations. As an extreme, the plate for the harriers contains only 4 species yet over 40 different illustrations. Consequently, this creates a rather crowded or busy looking page and all the images are slightly small to examine. This same scenario is true for most of the plates showing the raptors, gulls, terns, and shorebirds. However, I'll take this slightly cramped looking plate with all the many plumages over a plate with a limited selection of illustrations.
Across from each plate are brief notes (1-4 lines) that address the identification of each bird. A very small range map of Sri Lanka is also supplied for each bird. Due to the small size of the island -- and of the map on the page -- the ranges are generalized. These maps can look much the same between all the birds and are only somewhat useful for making generalizations of the bird's distribution.
The final two-thirds of the book contains the species accounts. This is where each bird receives a few short paragraphs dedicated to identifying the bird and comparing it to similar species. This information offers nice detail and good notes that help to identify the bird. Other brief information is given for the voice, status/distribution, habitat, and range.
Any birding done in Sri Lanka should use this book as the primary reference. It is both a good book and, the best one dedicated to just Sri Lanka. A few other all-India books would also work, but the vast number of species included across the entire subcontinent would be overkill for the island. -- (written by Jack at Avian Review with sample pages, October 2008)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
But The Binding!
By OldChap
I have just come back from three weeks in Sri Lanka. The information and explanations good and clear. The drawings are excellent. But the Binding, within four days in the humidity of Sri Lanka the pictures were coming away from the binding and after three weeks one third of the pictures are detached. If there is one, buy the hardback.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
A really professional handbook
By Sarakani
For the current traveller this is probably the best identification guide you can take with you. The distribution maps are a bit generalised but they give a general idea, and changes in distribution and status since the time of such writers like Henry have been updated.
The illustrations throughout are thorough and the book does its best to help you distinguish between similar looking birds. More on vocalisations would have been helpful.
An invaluable and well illustrated reference overall.
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