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Books Related to A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort, P. A. D. Hollom - ISBN: 0002190737
A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (Collins Field Guide) - Rated
Giving the name of species in other languages makes this book particularly useful if you live outside Britain.
Not Bad - Rated
A bit disappoiting, difficult to navigate. The descriptions, maps and prints are in separate places
No longer a top field guide. - Rated
This book was originally published in 1954, and although it has been revised several times since then, in my opinion it is now time move on.
For a long time this was probably the best field guide on the market (if this was not true I might have only given it 2 stars), now other field guides have surpassed it. This guide will enable you to identify most bird that you might see in Europe, but it is certainly not the best available - more recent guides have taken on board the best features and improved the rest. It is time that collins let this one go.
Peterson a classic! - Rated
This was my first birdbook, and I got it almost 35 years ago. " Peterson " as it is called among birdwatches has served me well during scientific fieldwork in Lofoten islands and other locatons in the eighties and I still use it. Why? The illustrations are second to none, it's "simplicity" is clarifying, to much information ( the case in some new books, I find) can sometimes be confusing. A tru classic!, the reason for still being around I belive.
Rustan Andersson
Not-so-bad-as-all-that guide - Rated
I am spurned to rate this book due to the only other review being a bit harsh in my opinion. I have been using this book (from the institute's library where I have been a student placement) for a year and found it good. The lay-out is quite normal for Collins guides, effectively arranging text and images, and maps in this case, into sections for the sake of expediency. Pictures can be browsed, without the distracting text, to find a 'match' in the field (as one does); text can then be referred to as can the maps. It also serves to keep the book to a nearly manageable size - something that I find is a problem with good ornithology field guides.
