[wisb] The Crossley Guide
- From: Thomas Schaefer <schaefertrees@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:51:52 -0600
Received my pre-ordered copy today. Certainly a departure from what birders
are used to seeing! Species are placed in diorama-like settings- with proper
background habitats. Some of the plates' backgrounds get a tad busy, but
overall they are beautifully done. Guide is real sturdy with a heft to it- not
something for the field but certainly for the front seat. Also nice is one
specie/page. Photographs may not be as sharp as Stokes', but the simplicity
more than makes up for that re: species descriptions. Stokes is too detailed.
Crossley is just the facts. It still won't beat out my all-time favorite Nat.
Geo. (everything they attach their name to always turns out well) but a buy
just for its completely new design. And besides, you gotta have them all
anyway!
Tom Schaefer
Hartford
Washington County####################
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