Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia (Princeton Field Guides) Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Mark Brazil Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0691139253 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Winner of the 2009 Louis Brownlow Book Award"Finally. The first single-volume guide for eastern Asia, and it's exquisitely illustrated."--
Matt Mendenhall, Birder's World"Although northeastern Asia boasts a number of regional endemics and is a source of many actual and potential vagrants to North America, the region has been sorely lacking a modern field guide. . . .
Birds of East Asia finally provides a treatment that meets the standards expected for modern field guides. . . . I will certainly take it with me on any future visits to the region. That's a compliment I cannot offer any other current or past field guide to the region."--
Nick Lethaby, Birder"Any birder planning to visit this fascinating part of the world will want to get
Birds of East Asia for their trip."--
Federick Brock, Wildlife Activist"Eastern Asia, in a biological sense, represents one of the last great frontiers, even for a group as generally well known as birds. Brazil, a field ornithologist with considerable experience with Asian avifauna, has produced the first comprehensive guide to birds of the region. . . . This is an excellent field guide and reference book. Birders who travel extensively in East Asia (or who want to) will own a copy as will any library with strong ornithological holdings."--
Choice"This interesting guide, which covers major islands including Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Asian continent from Kamchatka to the Korean peninsula, is amply illustrated with a plethora of color plates and maps that will provide any traveler with the information necessary to identify any bird of this vast region."--
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"Well-written and well-organized, this excellent book will be widely applauded by the professional and amateur birding community."--Susan Myers, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
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- Series: Princeton Field Guides
- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (January 26, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691139253
- ISBN-13: 978-0691139258
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
I live in Shanghai and have been using "Birds of East Asia" for about a month. Despite its imperfections, especially as regards its treatment of China, Mark Brazil's opus should be on the bookshelf of every birder in eastern China. For many of us, "East Asia" will supplant MacKinnon's "Birds of China" as the book we turn to first for eastern Chinese birds.
The species accounts in "East Asia" are long and detailed, and the paintings are not just big and beautiful but also accurate. The accuracy of the paintings may be the biggest advantage of "East Asia" over MacKinnon. I photographed a zitting cisticola last year and mistook it for a Japanese swamp warbler, in part because the painting in MacKinnon of the cisticola is inaccurate. The zitting cisticola in "East Asia" looks just like the bird in my photo.
In the prefatory material, Brazil says that "East Asia" originally was going to cover the Japanese archipelago and Korean Peninsula only. Brazil's earlier plan is evident in the book. Eastern China (except for Manchuria) is a bit of an afterthought. Brazil includes all of Northeast China then hugs the Chinese coast to Fujian before turning east to Taiwan. "East Asia" also covers all of Japan, all of Korea, and all of Russia east of about 116 degrees east longitude.
Brazil may have had good reasons for not including the inland Chinese provinces, such as Jiangxi (which would have allowed him to include Courtois's laughingthrush). And it's true that few would agree that ALL of China lies in East Asia. So where do you draw the line? Farther west, I would say. (Suggestion: exclude the ornithologically complex provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, Gansu, Inner Mongolia west of 110 degrees east latitude, and all provinces west. Include everything else.
Review of Birds of East Asia by Mark Brazil - Excellent
The recently published book, Birds of East Asia by Mark Brazil is superlative in every way! It is an amazing compilation of Mark Brazil's encyclopedic knowledge of the birds of East Asia. This field guide fills a previous void in coverage of important and major birding areas in East Asia, including East China, Taiwan, Korea, East Russia, and Japan. This book details 985 species of birds, including residents, migrants, and vagrants of the region, and includes 236 beautifully illustrated plates. The powerful and majestic Steller's Sea Eagle, spectacularly drawn by Alan Harris, graces the cover of both the USA and European versions. The only difference is that the background of the USA version is black, and the European version is white. However, the cover of the white European version is truly stunning, as it also shows the winter habitat of the Steller's Sea Eagle, as it flies over snow, ice, and sea.
The organization and layout of this field guide are excellent. A general section, good for beginning birders, includes the following: introduction, how to use this book, avian topography and terminology, key to families, and references. The specific sections of 985 detailed species and 236 accompanying illustrated plates are superb. The text and range maps of the species are displayed on one page with the artists plate illustrations directly opposite, making the field guide efficient and easy to use for comparison of species, migration patterns, and range of locations.
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