Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ux1.lbl.gov!mostardi From: mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: South American Bird Books Message-ID: <1328@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 29 Nov 88 18:42:52 GMT References: <7823@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <7824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Reply-To: mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi) Distribution: all Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley Lines: 21 In article <7824@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> e299-ao@sim.UUCP (Brenda Baker) writes: > >I'll be going to Venezuela this winter and was wondering if anyone could >recommend a good book for the birds down there. I hear they have 1300 >species many of which are very different from what we have up here. > >Brenda Perhaps someone out there has a list of good field guides for birds of all the other continents besides good ol' North America. For example, on Sunday I am going to Stockton to search for a bird called a Tundra swan, but said swan is not in my N. Amer. field guide -- but for the company of an experienced birder, how could I identify this swan? David Mostardi, MSRI, Berkeley CA. Internet: DPMostardi@lbl.gov "Guess what Dad! Those chocolate diskettes fit right into your computer, no problem!"