This is the fully revised and updated third edition of an acclaimed field guide to the birds of Borneo, covering Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan. The result is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and user-friendly guide to the island’s remarkably diverse birdlife. The book covers all 673 species living or reported on Borneo, including all 59 endemic species. Each species is superbly illustrated in 141 color plates containing more than 2,000 full-color bird images, which provide multiple large views of each species, including most of the sexual variants and immature forms of polymorphic species. Each plate is accompanied by facing-page species descriptions covering taxonomy, size, call, range, distribution, habits, and status. Distribution is also shown with 567 detailed color thumbnail maps on facing pages. Other features include seven habitat plates, twelve regional maps showing Borneo’s top 90 birding sites, fast-find identification plates to the birds of Kinabalu and other habitats, and a full overview of Borneo’s vegetation, climate, and ecology. This is a guide that any outdoor visitor to the island will treasure.
The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and user-friendly guide to the birds of BorneoFeatures handy, facing-page formatIllustrates and describes all 673 species, including 59 endemicsContains more than 2,000 superb full-color images, providing multiple large views of each species, and 567 color mapsDescribes and maps Borneo’s top 90 birding sitesIncludes fast-find identification plates to the birds of Kinabalu and other habitatsProvides a full overview of Borneo’s vegetation, climate, and ecology
A more evolved field guide I recently purchased this book for an upcoming trip to Borneo. I had an older guide but this one was strongly suggested by a friend and fellow tour leader. The recommendation was based upon several points: the book is newer, the taxonomy has been updated, a few more species have been added to the text, a smaller geographic area is covered (making it easier to use than my older guide), and much additional information not usually found in bird guides has been included in the form of side bars…
Best birding field guide ever! We agree with all the other (100%) 5-star reviews. This is without a doubt the finest bird guide we have ever used. Besides superb avian drawings and great maps, this book also tells the complete natural history of Borneo from Wallace to palm oil and even climate to detailed travel recommendations, etc. and how it all relates. We have used 40-50 other bird and natural-world guides and been birding to 99 countries (3800+ sp.) and we’re still very very impressed on finding and using this very…
The Best Borneo Birding Field Guide I purchased both this Field Guide and the Susan Myers field guide. The illustrations in Meyers are marginally better but the Phillipps guide has species we saw that the Meyers guide is missing. Also the Phillipps guide is laid out much better and has additional information that is really useful and interesting. The Meyers guide is about 20% smaller and lighter but has less content. If you want a comprehensive guide, but this one.