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Index of Subjects Hi Randy, Richard, Ian & all Thanks for all the tips. Nice to know that there are the other resources out there if not all in the guides, and that subversion has not penetrated that far. I'll have a look when I get a breather from marking reports, which might account in part for the misanthropic shoot-from-the-hip on this in the last paragraph that you each picked up. Practically, though, you probably could cram a couple of extra lines into something the size of Sibley without making it any bigger, if you were to stick to text and avoided adding further illustrations. Not what people want though, obviously. What nobody including me pointed out is what probably explains most of it, the comparison of species counts even just for eastern N. America, against those for the UK. It must be something like at least 10:1 (N.Am : UK) for sparrows, more than that for warblers and flycatchers, and probably at least 5:1 for nearly all categories except corvids (about even, an odd exception perhaps); and then there's hummingbirds. So it's not surprising that an average-sized book for the UK could contain more info per species that a similar sized book covering the birds of eastern N. America. Regards, Steve Quoting iamclar@dal.ca: Steve: I agree with Richard Stern that field guides are not meant to inform on life-history matters.However, there are lots of sources for that info. The (outdated, but still usful) Robie Tufts' "Birds of Nova Scotia" has muuch anectdotal and hard infor. But the best source is at your fingertips, as Dal subscribes to the online "Birds of North America." (Hard copies also in the reference room, main floor.) Hit "databases" in the Library offerings and enter "Bird of North America" and then choose species from the list. Pretty up to date. Cheers, Ian Ian McLaren
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