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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Beautiful book - I am very grateful to the authors for the years and years of careful effort that went into this. As a hardbound book, my one issue is the maps. Tiny little things riddled with state boundaries that even most Peruvians probably struggle with. Consider improving them in an e-book where space is not so much of an issue. The kindle edition is a big weight saver for the travelling birder. I'm using it on an ipad so I can see the color plates. Get a cup of coffee, because you're going to need it.
This book is big and searching the kindle edition is sloowwww. That problem could easily be fixed in many creative ways, that's the beauty of computers. At the very front just stick in a list of all the English names, followed by the scientific name in parentheses followed by a link to the page number of the species account and the search will take seconds, not minutes.
Or just put the index in the front, so it searches it first. Or modify the search so it starts at the current position and searches forward first. Or enable an index search only. Nope - It isn't searchable. So, a note to birdbook authors who are porting your books to kindle or other e-readers. First, travelling birders will snap your books up I've bought every one I can find! So please, port them over.
Next, try using them yourself in that version, get frustrated, then get a little programming help to make those editions better. Heck, modify them and sell them as an app, I'll buy those too!
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I almost didn't get this kindle version because of some less-than-wonderful reviews for the digital. So happy I did get it. As in any catalog type of book, it's easier to thumb through a paper edition, quickly, honing in on the approximate image of the bird. However hauling around the big paper version doesn't appeal to me at all. So, I am bringing the kindle fire with the e-version of Birds of Peru on it. Then I will also bring the much lighter-weight paperback "Birds of South America", non-passerines rheas to woodpeckers.
So, a compromise, a paper field guide to quickly thumb thru re parrots, hummers, raptors, tinamous, owls, nightjars, etc, and the larger digital guide to study in dry places or at night.
Also bringing the pertinent pages of Where to watch birds in Peru, by Valqui. BTW many of those towns in Peru still have internet cafes, where one could study the kindle version on a larger screen. The new updated paperback version of this book arrived recently and I have had a chance to look it over in preparation for a trip to Manu this summer.
Yes, there are three new plates with 25 new birds, but other than this, it does not appear that too many other updates some much needed have been made.
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I did notice changes on several of the range maps and one plate adds an additional hummingbird illustration to these authors a subspecies, though Clements and others consider it a full species. My original hardcover copy is full of notes re: That said, if you are going birding in Peru this book is an absolute must. And it is great to have it in a slightly lighter though not as much lighter as you would think paperback edition.
I give the original effort of the authors five stars. I am giving the revised paperback edition four stars because I had hoped that more updates would have been made. Any field guide to a country like Peru is a monumental undertaking, not in the least because the situation is constantly in flux. I have already read about the discovery of a new barbet species that is not in this updated edition!
Yellow Billed and Andean Teal; page There may also be additional updates that I haven't found yet, therefore I am changing my rating to give this new updated edition five stars. I have to assume that if the authors did not make certain other updates, that they are not currently recognizing those splits. I bought this book before embarking on a one-week trip to Peru. Birding was not my primary purpose, but I knew I was going to be in a country with a lot of avian diversity and I wanted to be able to identify what I was seeing.
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This is an excellent field guide for Peru! The book helped me identify nearly every bird I saw. I also really like the range maps. Some guides still have vague, written descriptions of ranges, or none at all. To me, the range is critically important for positively identifying a bird. This is the number one book for birds of Peru: But field guide it's not; it weighs a ton.
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