Thailand is the mecca of birding in Southeast Asia. It’s convenient to get to and get around, and its birdlife is wondrously diverse, exotic, and plentiful. With Birds of Thailand, Craig Robson and fourteen leading illustrators give us the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and concise field guide to this magnificent country’s rich avifaunal heritage in recent years, covering the more than 950 species recorded as of early in the new millennium.
Facing each of the 128 striking, full-color plates are species accounts accompanied by maps for each, illustrating precise distribution within Thailand. The accurate text covers identification, voice, habitat, behavior, range, status, and breeding for all species and subspecies. Illustrations and entries on a number of species recorded only quite recently are also included.
The country’s varied habitats assure something for every birder, from freshwater marshes to coastal areas, from fields and rice paddies to lush jungles and mangrove forests. In Thailand, one can delight in the brilliantly colored pittas, broadbills, and sunbirds; the deep, dazzling green of barbets, parrots, parakeets, and leafbirds; the aptly named frogmouths; the roosterlike resplendence of the (male) red junglefowl; the ruff, whose breeding male in full plumage sports a truly singular head; and much, much more.
Birders and all ecologically minded travelers daydreaming of a voyage to this gem of a country will want the latest source of thorough information on its birdlife–in a highly portable, pithy, and vividly illustrated guide. What they will want is Craig Robson’s Birds of Thailand.
Comprehensive field guide written specifically for this magnificent, bird-rich country
128 full-color plates by expert artists covering every major plumage variation, with juveniles also illustrated where notably distinct from males and females
Over 950 maps for individual species illustrating their precise distribution within Thailand
Accurate, up-to-date, and concise text covering identification, voice, habitat and behavior, range, status, and breeding of all species and distinctive subspecies
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Detailed illustrations, helpful for birds id I firstly borrowed this book from the lodge I stayed when I went birdwatching in Kaeng Krachan NP, Thailand. It is quite helpful and it works as a communicator between the bird guide who doesnt speak English and me. I am new on birdwatching and the detail illustrations help me identify the birds I saw. When I came back home I just went on line and ordered one book for my future reference.
the Asian Paradise Flycatcher of bird books BIRDS OF THAILAND is the reason the prestige university press and its zero-tolerance approach to schlock products exists. Princeton University Press has done itself proud with this condensed and focused version of author Robson’s BIRDS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA.
not bad, if you don’t know any better Supposedly this is the best field guide to Thailand birds, and maybe it is; I’ve never used another one. Having used the National Geo for North American birds for so long, I guess I’m spoiled. By comparison this book has many deficiencies. Range maps are so small they aren’t as useful as you’d like; it’s particularly annnoying that, when a bird is very localized, there’s no regional view to help you out, only a tiny map of a big country. Behavioral descriptions, which can be so helpful with…