[texbirds] Re: The Sibley's Guide to Birds, Second Edition
- From: Keith Arnold <kbarnold2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Honeylet Jones <antshrike1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:32:13 -0500
Dan, et al.
If you check in the copy-right page, I suspect that you will find th book
was printed in China. 'Nuff said.
Keith Arnold
Bryan/TAMU
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:12 AM, <antshrike1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I read Mark's comments with interest. My own complaints about the book
> are more general in nature. I was really disappointed when I opened my
> book and saw the atrocious printing job. I bet David Sibley was
> heartbroken. His beautiful paintings were completely butchered by the
> printers. Spotted Towhee, Brown and Long-billed Thrasher are terrible.
> The rufous/orange coloration is a deep maroon. The poor Yellow-breasted
> Chat has a weird ochre/green breast. In fact all the yellows are skewed
> towards green. The poor Cliff Swallow is almost unrecognizable. Many of
> the painting would have been better off in black and white. In fact the
> waterthushes came out pretty much black and white. And good luck trying to
> identify Brewer's Sparrow. Unfortunately my Nat. Geo. guide suffers from
> much of the same poor printing problem.
>
> My other complaint is the incredibly tiny fonts used. Unless you have
> perfect vision this book is is really difficult to read. I would rather
> have a larger book and pay more. I blame the editors for trying to keep
> down size and costs.
>
>
> From a content point my only disagreement is with using a large colored
> area on the range map rather than dots to represent records of rarities.
>
>
> Otherwise the book is really great and worth the rather small cost. But
> it's sure going to confuse a lot of beginning birders who will want to take
> the colors literally.
>
>
> Dan Jones, Wesalco
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